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J.D. Crouch is the CEO and president of the United Service Organizations, a private nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening America's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country throughout their service to the nation.

Maria Tsennykh, Ph.D., is a principal at CLA in New York. She has more than 17 years of experience in valuation, forensics, litigation, investigations and audit, including serving as an expert witness and 11 years at a Big Four firm. In addition, having worked on two continents, she combines her economic, accounting, corporate finance, valuation and investigation backgrounds to advise clients on a variety of complex circumstances in the U.S. and internationally. Her experience includes damages analysis, assessment of corporate governance practices and internal controls, business and intangible assets valuation, and international arbitration advisory. She also regularly directs large-scale financial investigative assignments including forensic accounting investigations, financial fraud investigations, financial reporting investigations, white-collar crime investigations, corporate governance investigations and investigations involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

Artificial intelligence can and should be integrated into the business of banking, but with adequate safeguards in place to mitigate the technology's potential vulnerabilities.

Corporations are leaning harder on virtual cards as post-pandemic business travel ramps up amid hybrid work arrangements, according to a new Mastercard survey. Visa separately has extended its collaboration with virtual-card technology provider Conferma Pay.

During the recent banking crisis, both businesses and wealth management clients moved their money out of banks. Commercial deposits have since recovered, but those in wealth accounts continue to decline amid fierce competition from both inside and outside the banking system.

The fintech's second-quarter results showed narrowing losses as well as membership and revenue growth, even as it took on marketing expenses and paid a data breach settlement.

The Wilmington, Delaware, bank announced this week that it had purchased Bell Rock Capital. WSFS' management says that legal troubles involving that investment advisory firm's founder won't affect the transaction.

Fraudsters are using sophisticated skimming devices to steal more card data — and they aren't afraid to encroach on bank property to do so, according to new data from Fair Isaac Corp.

The Federal Reserve issued fresh policy guidance around stablecoin issuance, distributed ledger technology and fintech partnerships. Legal and policy analysts anticipate a further chilling effect on bank engagement with so-called novel activities.

As part of its resurrection plan, the terminal maker will pursue financial inclusion and growth markets for ATMs as it prepares for its relisting on the New York Stock Exchange.