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By purchasing the merchant acquirer Atlantic-Pacific Processing Systems, the fintech Stax has rounded out its offerings in a way that echoes the structure of larger payment companies.

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.

CEO Scott Sanborn said it's unclear when demand from banks to buy the fintech's loans will return.

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.

In the company's third-quarter earnings call, Krishna emphasized new and existing AI models banks and others could use to help developers, customer service people and workers in general become more efficient.

Javice, accused of defrauding JPMorgan Chase in its $175 million acquisition of her college-loan-planning site, says the bank was not sticking to a court order requiring it to pay for her legal defense.

The fintech Greenlight Financial has formed a CUSO to expand access to its family banking app and educational resources after strong interest from credit unions.

The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office concluded that the former chief executive officer of NatWest Group breached data-protection laws when she discussed the closure of former British politician Nigel Farage's bank account with a reporter. 

As financial institutions increasingly rely on artificial intelligence for anti-money-laundering and fraud detection, they face challenges in meeting regulators' demands for complete transparency and documentation.