Technology

Superintendent Harris led the takeover of Signature Bank after it failed this spring. She joins Editor-in-Chief Chana Schoenberger to reflect on the lessons of this year's banking crisis, and how she is modernizing supervision.

Building on technology it acquired with cloud-banking fintech Finxact, Fiserv aims to play matchmaker between its bank partners and merchants.

As we look ahead to fresh innovations in fintech, we should try to reconnect with a deeper, more intentional set of human relationships foundational to our experience of money.

Speakers at DC Fintech Week highlighted ways forward for regulators to keep pace with artificial intelligence, such as by setting up "guardrails" before guidelines.

In tests run by Corporate Insight, generative AI-based bots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard generally answer questions better than banks' virtual assistants do. 

Developers of lending and other banking tools powered by artificial intelligence say their firms are well positioned to weather regulatory changes, but remain mindful of how government agencies might respond.

The company missed revenue projections, and it's trying to tap other funding strategies amid a "difficult lending environment."

The Swedish buy now/pay later lender posted the firm's first quarterly profit in about four years, but an ongoing labor dispute raised questions about the company's future operations.

NatWest is updating its chatbot, Cora, to make engagement more conversational, and Amex is working with the Canadian fintech Nuvei to promote bank-transfer payments to U.K. merchants.

The San Carlos, California, consumer lender said it's "exploring strategic options" for its credit card portfolio, discontinuing its investment and retirement products and sunsetting a partnership with Sezzle in addition to embarking on a new round of job cuts.