Technology

White Clay and Quantalytix are two financial technology providers whose founders spent more than a decade in banking and are intimately familiar with the issues they try to solve.

A pair of recently launched products use generative AI to actively train people on cybersecurity through the use of live simulations of real attacks.

The firms are increasingly seeking to integrate generative artificial intelligence into their products, and banks are potentially interested customers. But such efforts are costly, the risks are high and "they want to make sure that they get it right," experts say.

Through the power of digital technology and artificial intelligence, regulators around the world could revolutionize the way banks' call reports are filed, providing them with real-time information.

"Smart" contracts enable the Chicago-based trust bank to carry out deals without intermediaries, while archiving details on transactions that can be useful later. Experts say other banks could follow despite the complexities of cutting-edge technology and the risk of being hacked.

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.

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 release of two malicious language models — WormGPT and FraudGPT — demonstrate attackers' evolving capability to harness language models for criminal activities.

Stax Payments appointed British financial executive Paulette Rowe as its new chief executive officer, making her one of the few Black women to lead a finance company.

When Bitfinex was hacked, Bitcoin was trading under $1,000. It had skyrocketed to $44,000 by the time the couple was arrested in early 2022, pushing up the value of the stolen assets to $4.5 billion, of which $3.6 billion was recovered by authorities.