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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Despite ESG headwinds in Florida, Climate First Bank in St. Petersburg continues to make "green" loans and plans to show consumers how their purchases affect the environment.
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AB - TechnologySoftware can help banks move computing workloads to geographic regions where clean energy is available.
August 16 -
The fintech lender says its loans are meeting a need for people living paycheck to paycheck that the mainstream financial community is not, and that its loans cost far less than subprime credit cards or payday loans.
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Cloud giants are making major investments in generative AI and large language models. Their financial services clients are mostly in test-and-learn mode.
July 30 -
The bank's chief technology officer is testing several ideas for using advanced AI to improve processes and customer experience.
July 26 -
The managing director of Arjuna Capital led a successful shareholder activist campaign in 2018 that led to dozens of large companies reporting their true gender pay gap numbers. Now she is pursuing companies who are moving too fast with advanced AI.
July 19 -
The Charlotte bank plans to use quantum computing to stiffen cybersecurity, run more advanced AI applications and create new commercial use cases alongside IBM engineers.
July 12 -
A number of large banks, the Federal Reserve of New York and Swift participated in a proof of concept of a shared ledger that would allow cross-border transactions to settle instantly in U.S. dollars — with regulators literally in the loop.
July 10 -
One area of focus for the bank is using advanced artificial intelligence to detect business-email compromise. The payment messaging network Swift and online gambling host Caesars are also using AI to stop people from gaming their systems.
July 3 -
Innovators of the Year and Most Influential Women in Fintech were announced last week at the Digital Banking Conference .
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