To teach artificial intelligence to responsibly execute human goals, there’s a need to build bridges between human thought and language computers can understand, Stephen Wolfram, founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, explains.

Retailers can use the power of AI and predictive analytics to anticipate shoppers’ needs, writes Denise Purtzer, a vice president at FuturePay.

Part of First Data's new approach to security provides a view of the digital underbelly crooks use to trade in illicit information.

Bank of America has spent years catching up to peers on customer service. Its next objective: using insight from customer feedback to shape a top-tier digital experience. When the haters hate, Michelle Moore listens.

Jo Ann Barefoot, a former deputy comptroller of the currency, discusses her regtech startup Hummingbird.

Today’s primitive question-and-answer programs will mature into sophisticated conversational agents, which will help customers transact and may even be capable of understanding emotional cues, experts say.

The British machine learning technology company Featurespace is boosting its expansion strategy in the U.S. by arguing that fraud-fighting technology can improve on its own through experience.

David McLaughlin, founder and CEO of QuantaVerse, discusses how artificial intelligence can improve anti-money-laundering compliance; the problems of de-risking and "defensive filing" of suspicious activity reports; the Clearing House's proposal to reduce banks' AML costs; and more.

The company behind Android Pay is giving more tools to developers and inking more partnerships in the payments industry. Here are some of the biggest developments surrounding this year's Google I/O event.

Bank of America is giving its "erica" chatbot more time to learn the nuances of language and banking basics. A profanity filter is one recent addition.

Readers sound off on the use of AI in underwriting, the reasons for the failure of a Milwaukee bank, U.S. banks’ progress in adopting APIs, and more.

Kreditech will deliver its artificial intelligence and machine-learning credit underwriting and loan management technology to PayU’s network of 300,000 merchants

Frank Sanchez, a former FIS executive, is launching a new cloud-based core banking system aimed at large community banks looking to ditch mainframes.

Startups believe artificial intelligence will make loan officers obsolete, and that may be true. But it remains to be seen if AI will make lending safer.

Irish fintech execs discuss the sector's growth in their country and the opportunities from Brexit.

The bank uses machine learning to customize content in real time on its website for every user, based on their behavior during their session.

Chatbots have been percolating for a while as the next big channel for commerce and P-to-P payments, and the technology hit a fever pitch last week with a slew of high-profile merchant announcements that suggest the technology has reached a turning point.

Issuers and other organizations accept a nominal level of money laundering. Machine learning and artificial intelligence can improve that.

Large companies are starting to embrace bot technology, with Mastercard, MoneyGram and Western Union all announcing new services.

Subway, Fresh Direct and The Cheesecake Factory are among the first to use Masterpass-enabled bots on Facebook Messenger to sell their wares over social media.