Latest Artificial intelligence News: Finextra Research

BBVA makes site search more like Google

BBVA USA is working with search expert Yext to make finding information on its website more like using Google.

11 December 2019

Goldman Sachs enlists startup for quantum computing push

Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs is teaming up with Silicon Valley startup QC Ware to investigate the use of quantum algorithms in finance.

11 December 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

BMO joins $6m FlexPay funding round

FlexPay, a Montreal-based startup using AI to help merchants recover lost revenues from declined transactions, has raised $6 million in a funding round led by Impression Ventures and joined by BMO Capital Partners.

09 December 2019

Company update/ai

Secure Trust Bank deploys Jaywing’s ‘explainable’ AI for application scoring

Secure Trust Bank has become the first UK lender to complete live deployment of credit application models built using Archetype, the proprietary ‘explainable’ AI-driven software of credit scoring and AI experts, Jaywing.

09 December 2019

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Sustainable Finance.Live: Positive change through innovation and collaboration

Richard Peers, Founder of ResponsibleRisk sets the scene for Sustainable Finance. Live, the first in a series of events that sets out to provide actionable strategies, debunk the myth that value cannot be created by meeting sustainability goals and show how revenue can be generated through trustworthy implementation of ESG (environmental, social and governance) measures.

06 December 2019

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The key to scaling up:Design, data, automation & monetisation

Mohit Joshi, President, Infosys, speaks at Finacle Conclave in Dubai about how companies have embraced digital and now looking to scale up in order to be closer to their customers, changes in the customer journey, the importance of data and how this effects revenue.

06 December 2019

Finextra TV/payments

Scale Digital: Tackling the transition pains

Sanat Rao, Chief Business Officer and Global Head, Infosys Finacle, speaks at their event in Dubai about the theme, Scale Digital and the thought behind it. We ask what banks need to consider as they scale digital, the challenges changing expectations present, the transition pains banks endure and where Infosys Finacle fits in.

05 December 2019

Company update/ai

Quantexa adds ex-MI5 chief Evans to board

Quantexa, the contextual decision intelligence software and solutions company, has appointed Lord Jonathan Evans to its advisory board.

05 December 2019

Company update/cloud

CWB Financial Group signs with Temenos

CWB Financial Group (TSX:CWB) takes another step forward as a disruptive force in Canadian financial services today with the selection of Temenos (SIX:TEMN), the leader in banking software, to deliver a seamless end-to-end digital banking experience for small- to medium-sized business owners.

05 December 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

Mexican SMB lender Konfio lands $100 million in funding

Mexican small business lender Konfio has completed a $100 million funding round led by SoftBank's Latin American fund.

05 December 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

BBVA to leverage Intel partnership for data mining and AI

BBVA has added Intel to its roster of partnerships with top tech firms, following similar agreements with Cisco, Red Hat, Salesforce, Amazon Web Services and IBM.

05 December 2019

Company update/cloud

Personetics joins AWS Partner Network Global Startups Programme

Personetics, a leading provider of AI-powered personalization and customer financial wellness solutions used by some of the world’s top banks, announced today that it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) Global Startups Program.

04 December 2019

Company update/Artificial intelligence

Financial firms struggling to assess risks of disruptive technologies - Accenture

The majority of UK financial firms do not believe they can adequately assess the risks of disruptive technologies, as technology advancements move faster than the skills of their risk managers, according to a new report by Accenture.

04 December 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

Canada's Portag3 closes CAD$427m fintech fund

Canadian outfit Portag3 Ventures has closed a CAD$427 million (US$321 million) fund focused on early stage investments in the fintech sector.

04 December 2019

News/regulation

Ex-TransferWise staffers raise $2m for AML startup

Salv, an anti-money laundering (AML) startup founded by a gaggle of former TransferWise staffers, has raised $2 million in a seed round led by Fly Ventures.

03 December 2019

Company update/ai

Broadridge unveils AI-based STP machine

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., a global Fintech leader and part of the S&P 500 Index, today announced the launch of Broadridge Data Control Intelligent Automation, a new artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) platform built to be deployed across industry-wide reconciliation, matching and exception management applications.

03 December 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

Ex-Barclays Antony Jenkins predicts demise of traditional banking

Former Barclays chief executive believes its the end of the banking world as we know it...and he feels fine.

02 December 2019

Company update/ai

Bokio, the Swedish startup aiming to simplify accountancy with AI, raises €4M

Bokio, the Swedish based startup which utilises artificial intelligence to simplify bookkeeping for small businesses, sole traders, and freelancers, has raised €4M.

29 November 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

Co-operative Bank opens Loans Marketplace

The UK's Co-operative Bank has launched a loans marketplace, enabling users to sift through a panel of alternative lenders to find the best deals.

27 November 2019

Company update/regulation

Saxo Bank Japan prioritises cloud-based regulatory reporting

Torstone Technology, a leading global provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, today announced that Saxo Bank Securities Ltd. (“Saxo Bank Japan”), the investment and trading specialist, has gone live with the first phase of its migration to Inferno.

26 November 2019