Penny Crosman is Executive Editor, Technology at American Banker and its publisher, Arizent. Prior to taking on this role, she was Editor in Chief of Bank Technology News. She has held senior editorial roles at Bank Systems & Technology, Wall Street & Technology, Intelligent Enterprise, Network Magazine and Imaging Magazine.
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A commonly used standard for property and casualty insurance will offer a carve-out for generative AI liability starting in January. Startups like Testudo, Vouch and Armilla AI stand by to scoop up that business.
October 30 -
Rob Abrams, CEO of J.P. Morgan Mobility Payments Solutions, is overseeing the development of in-car wallet systems that turn cars into rolling credit cards. He explains his vision of what connected cars could look like and do in the future.
April 29 -
Bad actors use generative AI to create automated threats that are more sophisticated than earlier generations of malicious bots, and they are going after banks' APIs.
April 21 -
Numerous reports and lawsuits have criticized the health insurer for using algorithms to ramp up denials of coverage.
December 12 -
At the Most Powerful Women in Banking conference this week, New York's top banking regulator said banks need to take full responsibility for the artificial intelligence models they use, even if they bought them from a third party.
October 22 -
Sen. Edward Markey warns that biased AI algorithms are making decisions that deny mortgages to Black people.
September 24 -
Eric Siegel, author of the book 'The AI Playbook,' explains what it takes to get traditional and advanced artificial intelligence projects from idea to execution.
February 13 -
Eugene Ludwig, former Comptroller of the Currency and current co-founder of Canapi Ventures, a fintech VC, reflects on how 2023 treated fintechs, how far the fintech movement has come and what banks and their regulators need to look out for in 2024.
January 2 -
President Biden has directed government agencies to develop new rules on protecting privacy and security, preventing intellectual property theft, reducing bias and more in banks' use of artificial intelligence models.
October 31 -
Truist Bank has agreed to pay licensing fees to USAA for the use of mobile-check-deposit technology that USAA says it invented.
October 10 -
Colleagues say Mager supports others' work and career development.
September 22 -
Though she is a young mom with three-year-old twins, the Women in Insurance: Next 2023 honoree is not slowing down her work life.
September 18 -
Through Matchett's efforts, associates have logged more than 124,000 hours of online training at the insurer. Matchett is one of Digital Insurance's Women in Insurance Leadership honorees for 2023.
September 18 -
A California homeowner called out CSAA for taking aerial photographs of his backyard, then revoking his homeowners policy due to "clutter." Experts say such images are personally identifiable information protected by state privacy laws.
August 31 -
The card network has agreed to pay USAA licensing fees for the use of mobile deposit capture technology. USAA says it plans to keep trying to get other banks to do the same.
August 30 -
Cloud giants are making major investments in generative AI and large language models. Their financial services clients are mostly in test-and-learn mode.
July 30 -
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has issued guidance to insurance companies about existing laws and governance requirements they need to follow as they develop and use AI models. Experts say it's a good first step.
July 26 -
The managing director of Arjuna Capital led a successful shareholder activist campaign in 2018 that led to dozens of large companies reporting their true gender pay gap numbers. Now she is pursuing companies who are moving too fast with advanced AI.
July 19 -
The Connecticut insurer has banned employees from using OpenAI's public ChatGPT system, but its chief information officer's team is experimenting with at least three use cases for large language models internally, and she has much more on her tech roadmap.
July 5 -
Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia have come up with a plan for letting banks innovate with artificial intelligence and widening access to credit at the same time.
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