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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Users of large language models and generative artificial intelligence need to be aware of the content and data those models are trained on, and be wary of potential infringement of copyright law.
January 4 -
Eugene Ludwig, former Comptroller of the Currency and current co-founder of Canapi Ventures, a fintech VC, reflects on how 2023 treated fintechs, how far the fintech movement has come and what banks and their regulators need to look out for in 2024.
January 2 -
The fintech revolution has been more successful at working with banks than at trying to replace them, points out Gene Ludwig, former Comptroller of the Currency, chair of the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity, and co-founder of Canapi Ventures. Those with "must have" products will fare far better in 2024 than those with "nice to have" tools, he says.
January 2 -
Readers clicked most on stories about what companies like Ally Bank and JPMorgan Chase are doing with artificial intelligence.
December 27 -
Six North American banks did well in Evident's latest assessment of banks' AI efforts, but JPMorgan and Capital One have a clear lead.
December 21 -
Many banks, especially smaller ones, will have to rethink how they lend to small businesses and automate manual processes.
December 20 - It's been a rough year for fintechs and for the venture capital firms that fund them. Venture capital flows into financial technology companies dropped by 36% year over year to $6 billion in the third quarter of 2023. But Amy Nauiokas, founder and CEO of Anthemis Group, is optimistic about 2024.Sponsored by IntraFi
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Banks in Poland will be the first to start receiving and using the scores, which will allow Ukrainians fleeing their country to obtain credit in their new Polish homes.
December 13 - Over the past year, the national bank regulators' oversight of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, Silvergate Capital and other banks that failed has been criticized. Reports of a toxic workplace at the FDIC have come to light. And the OCC hired a Deputy Comptroller and overseer of fintech who had easily discoverable falsehoods on his resume. Michele Alt, cofounder and managing director at Klaros Group, explains what this might mean for banks in the coming year.Sponsored by IntraFi
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Bank customers' complaints of sudden account closures track a rise in automated anti-money-laundering decisions and possibly outdated AML rules.
December 4