Penny Crosman is Executive Editor, Technology at American Banker and its publisher, Arizent. Prior to taking on this role, she was Editor in Chief of Bank Technology News. She has held senior editorial roles at Bank Systems & Technology, Wall Street & Technology, Intelligent Enterprise, Network Magazine and Imaging Magazine.
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AI in a car can be fatal. What could go wrong with AI in a bank? A new council established by BofA and Harvard hopes to minimize unintended consequences that could jeopardize consumers' financial well-being or discriminate against them.
April 10 -
The self-regulatory body says working with data aggregators increases risk of cyber fraud, unauthorized transactions and identity theft. But aggregators say other links in the information chain are more vulnerable.
April 9 -
Some speculate that the banks who do business with credit reporting agencies may be looking for alternatives after mounting concerns about their ability to keep information private. But breaking up is hard to do.
April 4 -
The software firm MonetaGo and three Indian factoring exchanges have launched a blockchain that can identify invoices that have already been financed.
April 3 -
Some fear that the removal of such data from individual credit reports could lead lenders to believe a consumer is a better bet than they really are.
April 2 -
Becoming a member of Hyperledger fits Ripple’s ideal of allowing different blockchains or distributed ledgers to communicate with each other.
March 29 -
The bank is providing Merrill Edge's do-it-yourself clients with more automated stock and portfolio research, but it plans to hire more financial representatives for those who want in-person advice in branches.
March 29 -
Lenda, launched in 2014, currently makes mortgages start to finish in two weeks. But it's aiming to make it a process that can be finished on a borrower's lunch break.
March 28 -
The fintech is partnering with WebBank to offer a normal-rate, unsecured credit card for people with no credit or a thin file. Petal will consider how much money consumers make, the bills they pay on a monthly basis, and trends in volatility in their income and expenses.
March 28 -
Operations executives said in a recent survey that they have to modernize their back offices before they can meet their No. 1 goal: improving the customer experience.
March 27
