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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The card giant is offering small merchants a debit card and account that provides a view of their cash flow across multiple products. Experts say this is a good step but that business owners may want more.
November 7 -
His lawyers characterize him as a math nerd and not a criminal, but the mountain of evidence presented during his trial makes it hard to see him as innocent.
November 7 - Community banks sometimes feel that they lack the budget and staff to compete with larger banks and fintechs on things like mobile and online banking, virtual assistants and most recently generative AI. Jim Perry, senior strategist at Market Insights, suggests steps they can and should take to stay relevant technology wise.Sponsored by IntraFi
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FTX's implosion made it even harder for crypto-related businesses to work with U.S. banks. With the fraud conviction of the company's founder, regulatory clarity may gradually come.
November 6 -
President Biden has directed government agencies to develop new rules on protecting privacy and security, preventing intellectual property theft, reducing bias and more in banks' use of artificial intelligence models.
October 31 -
In the company's third-quarter earnings call, Krishna emphasized new and existing AI models banks and others could use to help developers, customer service people and workers in general become more efficient.
October 26 - The case is not really about cryptocurrency but about fraud, points out Seoyoung Kim, department chair and associate professor of finance and business analytics at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. But regulators and lawmakers are watching and the outcome of the trial will have repercussions throughout finance.Sponsored by IntraFi
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Banks already share consumers' transaction data with fintechs, mostly through data aggregators, and often grudgingly through screen scraping. The proposed 1033 regulation could give more control to consumers, better data access to fintechs and a competitive edge to big banks over smaller ones, some observers say.
October 23 -
On JPMorgan Chase's third-quarter earnings call, CEO Jamie Dimon debated with Wells Fargo Securities analyst Mike Mayo over whether recent advances in AI present an advantage to traditional banks or to their challengers.
October 16 -
Truist Bank has agreed to pay licensing fees to USAA for the use of mobile-check-deposit technology that USAA says it invented.
October 10 - Johnson, chief experience officer at Citizens Financial Group, shares some of her concerns about advanced AI and plans to use it for purposes including contact center support and coding.Sponsored by IntraFi
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When Tracy Kerrins became head of technology at Wells Fargo in April, she joined a small group of women who share that role including Lori Beer at JPMorgan Chase and Judy Dinn at TD Bank.
September 27 -
Banks need to — and can — take steps to manage the phenomenon, first defined by a Japanese academic in the 1970s, where artificial intelligence looks, feels or sounds human and gives customers a creepy feeling, experts say.
September 25 - Bell, an attorney, founded Ready Life to help reduce the racial wealth and homeownership gaps by showing lenders that credit-score-less consumers have been responsible with their money, based on their daily transactions. Now he and Bernice King, Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, are buying a community bank just outside of Salt Lake City.Sponsored by IntraFi
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A new model rates large banks on their efforts to develop and deploy artificial intelligence technology.
September 14 -
Executives at Citizens Financial Group and community banks such as Seattle Bank and Citizens Bank of Edmond say there are potential use cases for large language models. Yet they have concerns that impersonal service and likely errors could erode customers' faith in their financial institutions.
September 14 - What are the best options out there for people living on the edge financially who have an emergency expense? The Global Black Economic Forum and the Center for Business and Economic Research recently completed a study called the 2023 Cash Poor Report that dives into this question.Sponsored by IntraFi
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The private equity firm GTCR's large investment in R&T Deposit Solutions is a sign of the windfall reciprocal deposit networks are reaping after the bank runs this spring that was driven by customers with large, mostly uninsured deposits.
September 8 -
The card network has agreed to pay USAA licensing fees for the use of mobile deposit capture technology. USAA says it plans to keep trying to get other banks to do the same.
August 30 -
Banks handle vast amounts of data, and understanding and making the most of that data is key to staying competitive.
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