European Union privacy watchdogs are gearing up to police digital assistants after revelations that Amazon.com Inc. workers listened in on people’s conversations with their Alexa digital assistants.

The acquisition will vastly expand Visa's platform, giving it nearly Amazon-like influence.

Digital banking will become less visible because it will be embedded in other daily activities with the help of AI, voice interfaces and other emerging technologies.

Akin to the democratization of computing power through personal computers, the growing use of AI will continue to fuel new products and services in payments and have a significant impact on society. But AI will also introduce tremendous challenges due to its potential use by threat actors, says Visa's Paul Fabara.

New, risk-based technologies powered by AI and machine learning (ML) enable financial institutions to analyze transaction, device, geographical and behavioral data to make real-time security decisions, detecting and preventing fraud as it happens, says OneSpan's Michael Crichton.

It can be a painful process for a bank to go digital, but there are ways to ease the transition.

It's no longer enough to conduct traditional demographic analysis of customers. TD Bank wants to know what is going on with individual consumers at any given moment and respond accordingly.

Chris Maher, CEO of OceanFirst Financial, shares how employees’ roles have already changed and his bank’s efforts to help them navigate AI and other emerging technologies.

Casting aside recession fears, the credit bureau predicts credit cards, mortgages, auto loans and unsecured personal loans should all perform well — including those extended by online lenders.

Testing shows an overreliance on machine learning data can unfairly harm credit scores.

Casting aside recession fears, the credit bureau predicts credit cards, mortgages, auto loans and unsecured personal loans should all perform well — including those extended by online lenders.

The bank joins rivals in predicting a better than expected Q4; JPM exec says AI could help create products for savings.

Wealthfront could roll out a debit card, automated bill pay and direct deposit in early 2020, Chief Executive Andy Rachleff said.

In a move to aid faster expansion and provide more security and regulatory compliance tools, Sweden's Klarna Bank is strengthening its longtime relationship with Amazon Web Services by making it the preferred cloud provider.

In a move to aid faster expansion and provide more security and regulatory compliance tools, Klarna Bank in Sweden is strengthening its longtime relationship with Amazon Web Services by making it the bank's preferred cloud provider.

New tech like APIs and artificial intelligence will help consumers manage all their finances through an app, rather than just transfer funds.

The bank is testing the emerging technology with IBM in an effort to speed up risk analysis and derivatives pricing.

The payments company has loaned $5.5 billion to 275,000 small businesses, thanks to a data-driven process free from human interaction.

New data analytics could help provide more comfort to banks in doing business with the cannabis industry, despite restrictive federal laws.

It is important to understand how bias may be found naturally in your own existing customer base, and how this may affect your inferences, since these naturally need checks and balances to avoid sampling bias, argues Callsign's Stuart Dobbie.