Miriam Cross is a Washington-based reporter covering bank technology and fintech at American Banker. Previously, she was an associate editor at Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine.
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The banking-as-a-service middleware provider will be acquired by TabaPay. Other middleware providers may be forced to evolve or face the same fate.
By Miriam CrossApril 23 -
The Dallas-based regional bank tapped a client for its co-pilot capabilities, where employees can message a bot instead of a human to get tech assistance.
By Miriam CrossApril 19 -
Banking Circle US is the first company to use Connecticut's uninsured bank charter for wholesale and merchant activities. This kind of charter makes sense for payments firms, but questions persist about overall viability.
By Miriam CrossApril 17 -
Third-party cookies will essentially disappear as a tracking tool on the internet by the end of 2024. Marketing to customers using first-party data may be a better tactic regardless.
By Miriam CrossApril 12 -
The financial services firm is using Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform to help customer service agents quickly locate and understand policies when answering queries.
By Miriam CrossApril 9 -
As American Express has evolved with new products, its largest digital design team is rethinking how to finesse online and mobile design with the customer at the forefront.
By Miriam CrossApril 9 -
The Federal Reserve issued an enforcement action against Mode Eleven Bancorp, the holding company for Summit National Bank, which engages in banking as a service.
By Miriam CrossApril 4 -
Finding board directors who understand the pace of change is a tall order. But banks of all sizes can find innovation-minded board directors by mining other industries and investing in annual training.
By Miriam CrossApril 3 -
Synovus Financial demonstrated at an industry conference how it is using Microsoft's Copilot to help its staff address customers' concerns.
By Miriam CrossMarch 28 -
A panel at CBA Live explored the contract provisions banks need to consider before embarking on new banking-as-a-service relationships and what catches their eyes in consent orders from banking regulators.
By Miriam CrossMarch 27