Machine learning

Hard-won wisdom from AI's early adopters

10/01/18

Executives at Wells Fargo, BBVA Compass, ATB, and Banco Popular share some of the pain points they've encountered as they've implemented artificial intelligence, and how they overcame them.

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The challenge for virtual banking: Getting bots to care

09/28/18

AI-powered assistants will change the customer experience for the better, but first they must achieve a more human level of service, executives said during a discussion at Finovate.

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Banks' long road to retail-ready voice assistants

09/27/18

An all-virtual future remains far off, as conversational programs still aren’t capturing the nuance of speech and chatbots have disappointed many customers.

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How AI helped double volume at this auto lender

09/27/18

The subprime auto lender Prestige Financial Services used machine learning to make more effective lending decisions than its former model.

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Bank of America's Cathy Bessant: The Most Powerful Woman in Banking

09/23/18

Cathy Bessant, Bank of America's chief operations and technology officer and American Banker's Most Powerful Woman in Banking for 2018, keeps testing the limits of what the industry can do, while pushing herself at the same time.

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How this regulator is using AI to probe financial fraud

09/17/18

The U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office employs software that can read discovery documents about 2,000 times faster than human lawyers and can find previously unknown patterns between people, enabling quicker investigations and penalties.

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5 ways the World Economic Forum says AI is changing banking

08/26/18

The forum, which is best known for its annual Davos economic conference, offers insights on what many get wrong about artificial intelligence and how banks should be thinking about using it.

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Citi buys into future of artificial intelligence — literally

08/20/18

Citigroup was so impressed after a two-year test drive of software from the AI vendor Anaconda it decided to invest in the firm.

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Miami vice: This bank using AI to thwart financial crime

08/09/18

Bci Miami is one of the first banks in the U.S. to publicly acknowledge using AI this way, when many still consider the technology to be new, risky and unsanctioned by regulators.

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What's holding back voice banking

08/08/18

Voice assistants impress at tech demos, but new research shows bank customers aren't ready to ask a speaker about their accounts just yet.

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