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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

Company announcement

Turkey's BKM goes live with blockchain-based digital certificate platform

BKM transfers certificates to blockchain-based environment through belgem.io, a distributed application developed with Microsoft and VeriPark.

12 June 2019

News/retail

Microsoft brings real-time market data to Excel

Microsoft has teamed up with Nasdaq and Refinitiv to empower everyday investors by bringing real-time US equity market data to its Excel spreadsheet software.

05 June 2019

Company announcement

Billon and Microsoft to work with Poland’s top university to bring DLT into academia

Billon Solutions sp. z o. o., a fully owned subsidiary of Billon Group in the UK, signed a cooperation agreement with the Center for Research on Legal Aspects of Blockchain Technology, operating at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw.

17 May 2019

News/devops

Microsoft Build 2019: What stands out for fintech developers?

Thousands of developers, software engineers and students gathered at Microsoft Build 2019 to learn about the latest advances across technologies critical to the future of banking, such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, the Internet of Things and Mixed Reality for cloud or edge computing.

10 May 2019

News/devops

Deutsche Bourse signs cloud deal with Microsoft

Deutsche Bourse is to accelerate the migration of its workloads to the cloud after closing a deal with Microsoft for its cloud services over Azure and office collaboration tools.

08 May 2019

News

Voltron consortium grows to over 50 banks and corporates

The blockchain-based trade finance coalition Voltron has swelled to over 50 banks and corporates following the completion of trials involving the simulation of multiple digital Letter of Credit transactions across 27 countries on six continents.

08 May 2019

Company announcement

Bond.One uses new Azure Blockchain Service to deploy infrastructure for debt capital markets

Bond.One, a company building the digital infrastructure for fixed income markets, today announced that it is one of the inaugural users of the new Microsoft Azure Blockchain Service.

06 May 2019