Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO of asset and wealth management at the megabank, says recent advancements in remote connectivity will lead to a "much better Wall Street than many of us grew up in." She urges women not to let newfound flexibility go away.

The bank's retail clients can enable iPhones to accept payments without extra hardware, raising the stakes for any company that competes with the bank for merchant clients.

JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and TD Auto Finance all see opportunities in providing financing to dealers for inventory, the purchase of competitors and the addition of infrastructure for electric vehicle sales. Two other banks recently said they're exiting the business, which could provide a further opening.

Putting the pressure on employees to return to the office could cost financial companies their leadership.

The bank hasn't explained why person-to-person payments, bill processing and account-transfer services went down for parts of two days this week. But observers suspect glitches in its legacy systems could occur at other financial institutions and increasingly affect real-time payment networks.

If regulators push forward with plans to strengthen capital requirements for banks with more than $100 billion of assets, the nation's largest bank says, the cost of credit would rise and more consumers could seek out nontraditional lenders.

Some of the biggest names in banking have started using large language models to organize their institutional knowledge, but use cases like chatbots remain experimental.

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.

Financial institutions that received funding from the Emergency Capital Investment Program grew their loans by 35% between 2021 and 2022, according to new research. Now leaders at those institutions are turning their attention to the need for patient deposits.

Potential uses for banks include risk analysis, investment portfolio construction and financial crime monitoring.