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Finally raises $200M Series B with $50M equity and $150M credit facility

The AI-powered, all-in-one finance and HR suite, finally, today announced that it has closed a $50M Series B from PeakSpan Capital and $150M credit facility from Encina.

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Fighting Fraud with Form3: The Importance of Collaborative Intelligence

In Part 1 of this series, FinextraTV and Chris Oakley, Head of Fraud, Form3, points out why banks remain hesitant to share data, explores the misconceptions around regulations such as GDPR, and where levels of fraud would be if the standard was named GDSR, focusing on data sharing. While many financial institutions continue to be concerned about whether they are breaching rules and obligations, in certain situations, the fact that sharing data for fraud prevention can be useful and is a legitimate reason, is lost. To avoid this vicious circle, banks must take advantage of collaborative intelligence to mitigate rising financial crime cases such as APP fraud scams and share data where insights and intelligence can be exchanged between organisations in a secure environment, building a collaborative view.

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New Zeland regulator publishes research on AI use in the financial services sector

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) – Te Mana Tātai Hokohoko – has today published research on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in New Zealand’s financial services sector.

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Beyond Tomorrow In The Capital Markets

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Governments sign up to Council of Europe AI Framework Convention

UK, US and EU among the signatories on the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on artificial intelligence and human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.

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Hex Trust announces a strategic partnership with Grass

Hex Trust, a leading provider of digital asset solutions for institutional finance and the Web3 ecosystem, announces a strategic partnership with Grass, a viral, new decentralized infrastructure network that is building the first open internet to scale web crawl. Today, the network is powered by over 2 million users who are running nodes to scrape petabytes of web data for AI models. The partnership also cements Hex Trust’s position as a major service provider and custodian within the Solana and SPL ecosystem.

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Gen AI for compliance startup Sedric Ai raises $18 million

Amerian Express Ventures has joined an $18 million funding round in Sedric AI, a startup developing a dedicated compliance large language model (LLM) for financial services.

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Ant Group launches AI-powered 'life assistant' app

Ant Group has launched a new 'life assistant' app, Zhixiaobao, connecting users to a multitude of AI-agents trained for shopping, fitness and language learning.

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BIS field study show AI use can boost productivity among programmers

A Bank for International Settlements' field study on AI use by Ant Group programmers demontrated a clear boost in the number of lines of code produced by staff exposed to the Large Language Model.

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Lloyds to use AI to automate trade finance checks

Lloyds Bank is to use AI technology from Cleareye to eliminate the manual drudgery of paper processing and compliance checking for trade finance documentation.

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“Saving patient zero”: Blackwired's new approach to cybersecurity

Cyber risk has advanced to be the number one risk to the global economy.

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Lucinity secures financial crime sharing patent

Lucinity, the global leader in AI software for financial crime compliance, has secured a second patent from the US for its proprietary federated learning technology, which provides a unique approach to allow global financial systems to share algorithmic learning patterns without having to share sensitive data.

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IFS acquires Copperleaf in CAN$1bl deal

IFS, a leading provider of enterprise cloud and Industrial AI software, has finalised its CAN$1 billion acquisition of Copperleaf Technologies Inc., a global leader in decision analytics. Following approvals from courts, shareholders, and regulators under the Canadian Competition Act, IFS acquired all outstanding Copperleaf shares for CAN$12.00 each. This acquisition marks a significant milestone in IFS's strategy to accelerate growth and drive global expansion in asset-heavy industries.

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Goldman, Nomura tap Meta Llama AI models

Goldman Sachs and Nomura are among the companies using Meta's Llama open source artificial intelligence models.

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Stripe taps AI for cross-border commerce in Asia

US payments giant Stripe is bidding to build on its momentum in Asia with a host of new AI features to support cross-border commerce in the region.

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CPI Card Group partners with Rippleshot for AI-driven fraud protection

CPI Card Group Inc. (Nasdaq: PMTS), a payment technology company providing a range of credit, debit and prepaid solutions, complementary digital solutions, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) instant issuance, is excited to announce a strategic relationship with Rippleshot to provide its fraud prevention services to CPI customers.

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Klarna to use AI to halve workforce

Klarna saw revenue rise 27% in the first half of 2024, buoyed by its aggressive use of AI, which CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says could help the BNPL giant halve its workforce.

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Aveni signs TFAS Wealth

Aveni.ai, the AI fintech business, has been selected by independent financial advisory firm TFAS Wealth to implement AI solutions across its expanding service offering in the UK.

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Visa in talks over £700m Featurespace acquisition - Sky News

Visa is in talks with Featurespace about a £700 million acquisition of the British financial fraud fighting outfit, according to Sky News.

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Socure promotes Matt Thompson to chief revenue officer

Socure, the leading provider of artificial intelligence for digital identity verification, sanctions screening, and fraud prevention, has announced the promotion of Matt Thompson to Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) from Senior Vice President and GM of its public sector business.