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The FR’s editors recently sat down with Dan Latimore to get his insights on the state of generative AI in banking.
Robust compliance, partnerships with banks and a customer-first approach should be integral to a successful BaaS strategy, writes James Simcox of Equals Money.
AI-powered recommendation engines and computer vision technologies offer real-time, precise analytics and generative AI further extends these capabilities by facilitating the creation of new content and designs with ease. But is it all just a hype? Tiffine Wang, an investment partner at MS&AD Ventures, dives into this question.
Eric Satz, co-founder and CEO of Alto, makes an argument for crypto as a retirement savings vehicle.
Christian Widhalm, CEO of Bloom Credit, argues the consumer credit reporting system is in need of a makeover as consumers increasingly use alternative lending products.
Vall Herard, the CEO of Saifr, shares how augmenting human expertise with machine precision allows advanced AI to dramatically boost the efficacy, efficiency, and scale of AML and KYC solutions.
Steve Mattus, chief investment officer at SigFig, shares best practices on how to build a scalable BaaS program.
The intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and financial services is a hot topic, but raises questions about ethics. Vikas Raj and Alex Lazarow dive into the fairness, ethics, and the regulation of using AI in the provision of core financial services.
Sarah Biller dives into what we can expect from this year's Boston Fintech Week.
Gabriel Grisham, Senior VP at PayQuicker, dives into how new instant payment technology is disrupting the payment ecosystem.
Many small business owners face economic pressures. Can fintech firms help ease this burden? Renata Caine, general manager of banking-as-a-service at Green Dot Bank, looks at three ways they can make a difference.
Jim Van Dyke, Principal of innovation at TransUnion, dives into why financial institutions are uniquely suited to help consumers better respond to the risks posed by data breaches and subsequent cybercrimes that occur in their wake and how AI can help institutions fend off threats.
Carey Ransom, President of Operate and the Managing Director of BankTech Ventures, shares his opinion on some key use cases banks should consider to mitigate risk as they experiment with AI.
Walt Granville, head of growth at Everyware, dives into the importance of growth-oriented fintech companies in providing high-quality support.
Matt Ober, general partner at Social Leverage answers a few key questions in regards to AI. What does the future of expert networks look like? Can we use AI? But what about an expert network? Do we really need humans interviewing humans?
The on-site payment fan experience has continued to evolve with consumer habits. Rob Cameron, global head of acceptance solutions at Visa, answers three questions about digital payments at this year’s Olympics and its impact on the customer experience.
Will Sowell, divisional president of banking as a service at Pathward, uncovers opportunities in the embedded finance market.
Michael Dunlop, VP of sales at Rokt, looks at how companies can use first-party data for contextually-relevant customer offers.
Nandan Sheth, CEO of Splitit dives into why merchants may prefer card-linked installments over BNPL.
Peter Torrente, U.S. sector leader for KPMG’s banking and capital markets practice, discusses the next era of digital banking.
Jennifer Taylor, president of Plaid, discusses her role amid a shifting consumer and regulatory environment.
John Lin, principal at F-Prime Capital, and Zoey Tang dive into F-Prime’s 2024 State of Fintech report and uncover what effect AI is having in the finance industry, concentrating on the public companies that make up the F-Prime Fintech Index.
Zur Yahalom, senior vice president and head of financial services for the Americas at Amdocs, sat down with The FR to discuss areas of attention as institutions phase out legacy technology systems.
Carey Ransom, an SaaS entrepreneur, executive, investor and advisor, shares his four takeaways from the recent BankTech Summit in Atlanta in May where 150 bankers, banking technology entrepreneurs and select partners discussed the future of the industry.
The chorus of financial services brands that say they’re exploring the use of generative artificial intelligence to improve customer experiences keeps growing.
In Madrid in early June, Alex Lazarow led a fireside chat at the South Summit with JC Glancy, the unicorn founder of ZenBusiness. Here are a few takeaways from their discussion on how ZenBusiness has scaled over the years.
Despite the market’s slight rebound this year, mental health and work-life balance hurdles have never been more challenging to overcome. Emmalyn Shaw, a co-founder and managing partner at Flourish Ventures, and Lisa Mikkelsen, head of global human capital at Flourish Ventures, delve into this pressing issue.
What do bank execs and fintechs need to be successful in this next-wave of digitization that’s occurring across financial services? American Banker’s Executive Editor, Technology, Penny Crosman, sat down with The FR guest contributor and Caliber CEO, Grace Keith Rodriguez, to discuss this and more.
Green Check Verified as well as Merchants and Marine Bank offer their take on the future of cannabis banking regulation.
That gap between technology and law has left much of the industry in the lurch, anticipating and hedging against state action. For AI-driven lending platforms, for instance, these regulatory uncertainties have fomented an intra-industry debate about the kinds of technologies and algorithms that should be deployed.
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