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Leveraging the pivot point in payments

Peter Hazou, Director of Business Development, Financial Services, Microsoft, Paul Thomalla, Global Head of Payments, Finastra, and Gareth Wilson, Managing Director, Global Payments, Accenture, join FinextraTV to discuss digital transformation in the payments space. Hazou, Thomalla and Wilson delve into why we've reached a pivot point in the payments landscape, payments compliance requirements, pressure on payments revenue, fintech competition, and future proofing in the digital transformation process.

21 October 2019

News/ai

Sberbank and Microsoft bring AI to robotic cash handling

Sberbank and Microsoft Research are teaming up to study how AI can be used to train robots to interact with physical objects in order to boost coin counting productivity.

17 October 2019

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Leveraging Cloud and AI to meet ESG goals

Rupesh Khendry, Head, Capital Markets Industry Solutions, Worldwide Financial Services, Microsoft, discusses how the market is responding to the push for Sustainable Finance, how businesses can give confidence to investors that ESG figures in place are a reliable measurement, and how improved data procedures provide opportunities that grow from an improved understanding of risk management.

04 October 2019

News/ai

Can AI detangle the spaghetti of banking systems?

At Microsoft’s Future Decoded event in London, AI was the principal topic for discussion, with financial services no exception.

03 October 2019

Company announcement/cloud

Seattle Bank expands relationship with Finastra

Seattle Bank, a single branch boutique bank with $650 million in assets, has selected Fusion Phoenix from Finastra to be the open, modern core to run its banking operations, enabling the bank to better serve clients.

02 October 2019

News/ai

NatWest taps AI to simulate future market outcomes

UK bank NatWest is teaming up with Microsoft and AI specialist DreamQuark to simulate financial markets, transport networks and other environments and then use the information to spot risks and opportunities.

02 October 2019

Company announcement/ai

Microsoft releases report on FSI's readiness in AI across APAC

Today, Microsoft Asia and IDC Asia/Pacific released findings specific to the Financial Services Industry (FSI) from the study Future Ready Business: Assessing Asia-Pacific’s Growth with AI1, which found that organizations with AI expect to see 41% improvement in competitiveness in three years.

24 September 2019

News

Sibos 2019: Swift heads for the Cloud

Banking co-operative Swift is to provide a jumping board to large public cloud providers Microsoft and Google, and roll out its own private cloud services for institutions connecting to the network.

24 September 2019

News/ai

YES Bank partners Microsoft to turbocharge chatbot

India's YES Bank has enlisted Microsoft to help revamp its AI-enabled chatbot, using the latest technology to let customers carry out everything from managing their credit cards to checking their loan eligibility.

04 September 2019

Company announcement/ai

Microsoft invests in OpenAI to bring artificial intelligence to the cloud

Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI, two companies thinking deeply about the role of AI in the world and how to build secure, trustworthy and ethical AI to serve the public, have partnered to further extend Microsoft Azure’s capabilities in large-scale AI systems.

23 July 2019

Company announcement/ai

Personetics brings AI to Salesforce and Microsoft CRM platforms

Personetics, the leading provider of AI-powered personalization and customer advocacy solutions used by the world’s top banks, announced today that its data-driven actionable insights will now be available for bank relationship managers and agents.

25 June 2019

Company announcement/cloud

RBC and Microsoft team to help companies go digital

To help Canadian businesses unlock greater business value and capitalize on advancements in smart technologies and cloud solutions, RBC and Microsoft today announced the launch of RBC’s Go Digital program.

24 June 2019