Artificial intelligence

USAA invests in cognitive technology company

06/13/17

It also plans to deploy the startup’s technology that analyzes data and offers predictive advice.

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Breaking Banks: Building bridges between AI and humans

06/09/17

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.

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Digital Banker of the Year: B of A's Michelle Moore

05/31/17

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.

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Breaking Banks: AI, fintech and regtech

05/26/17

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

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This is how financial services chatbots are going to evolve

05/26/17

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.

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'A needle in a stack of needles': Using AI to detect money laundering

05/23/17

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.

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B of A gives its bot time to become a banker

05/16/17

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.

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‘Like humans do’: Comments of the week

05/12/17

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.

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AI may just create the illusion of good credit decisions

05/07/17

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.

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Breaking Banks: Irish fintech, the EU gateway

05/05/17

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

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