In|Vest 2018 Direct

Crooks can use deepfakes and other machine learning tools to circumvent traditional authentication security methods. Payment experts discuss how firms can protect themselves.

The bank faced credit setbacks in the nation's capital and margin pressure this year. But it made a series of hires to reduce risk and diversify its loan portfolio, preparing for a new era of demand as the industry awaits interest rate cuts.

Javier de la Torre is Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CARTO. One of the pioneers of location intelligence, Javier founded the company in 2012 with a vision to democratize data analysis and visualization. Under his leadership, CARTO has grown from a groundbreaking idea into one of the fastest-growing geospatial companies in the world.

CARTO empowers organizations to harness the power of spatial data for everything from network planning to portfolio risk management. As a truly cloud-native geospatial platform, CARTO ensures all data processing and visualization occur within your existing cloud data warehouse, boosting both security and performance.

Javier started his career as a conservation scientist, applying data-sharing technologies to analyze and visualize endangered species. In 2007, he founded Vizzuality, a renowned geospatial company dedicated to bridging the gap between science and policymaking by the better use of data.

Branches are being closed at a record pace because of mergers and financial reasons. If a closed branch is in a good location and meets certain other conditions, it can represent a low-cost way for a community bank to expand.

Emerging clean technologies championed by the Biden administration — ones that commercial banks may be too risk-averse to back at the scale needed — stand to lose a critical funding source if Trump is elected.

Reports of fraud committed against financial companies are on pace to, for the first time, fall this year compared with 2023. Consumer reports of fraud are also down.

Chason Forehand is the founder of HR-4U Inc.

The Dallas company, which has been in transformation mode for three years, recently took a series of actions to try to meet the profitability targets it set for itself.

Morgan Stanley will have to pay $2 million for failing to flag trading in First Republic Bank by its former CEO. The transactions happened in the lead-up to the regional bank's collapse.

A company spokesperson said the company reviews fraud-related issues and refers them to law enforcement "as appropriate."