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The Swedish buy now/pay later lender posted the firm's first quarterly profit in about four years, but an ongoing labor dispute raised questions about the company's future operations.

The new rules also expand the use of "proven protections," such as multifactor authentication, according to Adrienne Harris, superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services.

As banks increasingly explore the applications of generative artificial intelligence, regulators are deliberating about the systemic risks that the technology may pose because of their unpredictability, the potential for herd behavior, replication of human biases and AI's inability to predict extreme scenarios.

Companies such as Visa and Mastercard, as well as banks and retailers, are stepping up their investments in artificial intelligence to reach small businesses and spot new uses.

Charlie, a neobank marketed to people 62+, and Carefull, which partners with financial institutions, recently raised their Series A's. A third, called EverSafe, is embarking on its first fundraise.

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.

President Joe Biden's executive order tackling artificial intelligence could reprioritize the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's work in fair lending on artificial intelligence algorithms.

Bankers show a lot of interest in advanced AI, as well as a daunting list of challenges, according to American Banker's innovation readiness survey.

Large language models were a big part of the discussion during the company's earnings call on Thursday.

The Financial Conduct Authority has assembled a team of over 500 technologists as it weighs whether to adopt generative artificial intelligence to help examiners collect and synthesize data on billions of card transactions as part of its monitoring of the U.K.'s top banks.