{"id":187368,"date":"2026-02-14T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/4th-fintech-xchange-explores-ai-responsibility-to-consumers-theu\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T15:20:12","slug":"4th-fintech-xchange-explores-ai-responsibility-to-consumers-theu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/4th-fintech-xchange-explores-ai-responsibility-to-consumers-theu\/","title":{"rendered":"4th Fintech Xchange explores AI, responsibility to consumers \u2013 @theU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/attheu.utah.edu\/students\/4th-fintech-xchange-explores-ai-responsibility-to-consumers\/\">4th Fintech Xchange explores AI, responsibility to consumers \u2013 @theU<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/attheu.utah.edu\/students\/4th-fintech-xchange-explores-ai-responsibility-to-consumers\/\">https:\/\/attheu.utah.edu\/students\/4th-fintech-xchange-explores-ai-responsibility-to-consumers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-14 10:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"attheu.utah.edu\">attheu.utah.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The University of Utah\u2019s Fintech Center hosted its 4th Annual Fintech Xchange event, bringing together nearly 400 innovators and executives from companies like Visa, Intuit, LoanPro, and KPMG to discuss industry challenges, regulatory changes, and emerging technologies.<\/li>\n<li>The Fintech Center emphasizes Utah\u2019s favorable regulatory environment and innovation infrastructure while aiming to impact fintech nationally.<\/li>\n<li>Established in 2023, the center has rapidly grown, offering a Fintech minor to 42 students, launching a Fintech Ambassador program, collaborating on economic research, and expanding the minor globally.<\/li>\n<li>The Utah fintech sector has created nearly 8,000 jobs, added over $1 billion in wages, and contributed more than $7 billion to the state\u2019s GDP in 2025; the governor declared February as \u201cTech Month\u201d and announced a $10 million AI initiative.<\/li>\n<li>During a \u201chot takes\u201d session, fintech executives emphasized the importance of staying focused on ensuring financial technology helps consumers, rather than exploits them.<\/li>\n<li>The David Eccles School of Business Dean stresses the unique discussions fostering future leaders and opportunities at the Fintech Xchange.<\/li>\n<li>The Academic Senate approved a new financial technology master\u2019s degree, expanding the University&#8217;s focus on Fintech and expected to be offered next fall, pending final approval from university trustees and USHE.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4th Fintech Xchange explores AI, responsibility to consumers \u2013 @theU https:\/\/attheu.utah.edu\/students\/4th-fintech-xchange-explores-ai-responsibility-to-consumers\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-14 10:03:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/d26toa8f6ahusa.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/14075119\/Ryan-Opening-Remarks_2-scaled-e1771080707924.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187370,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187368\/revisions\/187370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}