Technology

The 16-year-old site struggled to monetize, but experts said personal financial management products should focus on engagement.

Companies such as Visa and Mastercard, as well as banks and retailers, are stepping up their investments in artificial intelligence to reach small businesses and spot new uses.

Intuit is shutting down one of the most popular personal financial management sites of its time — which attracted millions of users despite its counterintuitive approach to accessing consumer data.

Charlie, a neobank marketed to people 62+, and Carefull, which partners with financial institutions, recently raised their Series A's. A third, called EverSafe, is embarking on its first fundraise.

The tech billionaire wants the former Twitter's users to manage all of their finances on the site — the sooner, the better.

President Biden has directed government agencies to develop new rules on protecting privacy and security, preventing intellectual property theft, reducing bias and more in banks' use of artificial intelligence models.

President Joe Biden's executive order tackling artificial intelligence could reprioritize the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's work in fair lending on artificial intelligence algorithms.

The neobank is also benefiting from its product diversity.

In October's roundup of top banking news: Navy Federal's contract with the Department of Defense remains in limbo, check fraud takes a bite out of Regions Financial's third-quarter earnings, a Community Reinvestment Act rule gets finalized and more.

By purchasing the merchant acquirer Atlantic-Pacific Processing Systems, the fintech Stax has rounded out its offerings in a way that echoes the structure of larger payment companies.