Finextra Research: Latest fintech news, analysis, interviews, features and opinion by industry experts

Ensemble Capital chooses Numerix Oneview Asset Management

Ensemble Capital, the absolute return global AI fund based in Singapore, is live with Numerix’s Oneview Asset Management solution for real-time risk and portfolio management.

02 April 2019

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

Digital at the Core: Banking embedded in the world around us.

Brett King, futurist and CEO, Moven, speaks at SunTec 2019 Confluence in Dubai about the importance of being Digital at the Core, how far banks have come, whether they have transformed radically enough and whether they can all co-exist together in the future.

01 April 2019

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

The evolution of the challenger bank model

Ronit Ghose, Global Head of Banks Research, Citi, speaks at Money20/20 ASIA in Singapore about the evolution of challenger banks, how incumbent banks can establish their own, separately branded digital banks and whether is it possible to build an incumbent challenger bank.

01 April 2019

Company update/ai

Emirates NBD’s digital bank Liv. launches chatbot powered by Kasisto’s KAI Banking

Kasisto, creators of KAI Banking, the leading conversational AI platform for finance, and Liv., the largest digital bank in the UAE, operated and managed by Emirates NBD, a leading bank in the Middle East region, today announced the launch of Olivia, Liv.’s conversational

01 April 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

NatWest trials money management app

UK bank NatWest is trialling a standalone personal finance app that uses AI, data analytics and Open Banking APIs to help customers better manage their money.

01 April 2019

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

Who your competitors are in today's tech-focused economy depends on your strategy

Sreeram Iyer, COO, Institutional Banking, ANZ, speaks at Money20/20 in Singapore about Incumbent Banks, the relevancy of financial players in a tech-focused economy, who the biggest competitors are to traditional banks and whether there is an appetite for traditional players in a tech-focused economy/society.

29 March 2019

News/ai

ING takes academic approach to AI

Dutch bank ING is teaming up with the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) to build an artificial intelligence fintech lab.

28 March 2019

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

Key drivers for tech-enabled inclusive finance and the business models that follow

Andrew Watkins-Ball, CEO & Founder of JUMO, speaks at Money20/20 ASIA in Singapore about the problems JUMO is tackling, the role of technology in driving sustainable development of emerging markets, what opportunities and barriers lie ahead for tech-enabled finance in Asia and how business models will be evolve as a result.

28 March 2019

Company update/ai

Fico and Equifax team up to sell data to banks

To increase velocity for deploying predictive models, Fico and Equifax are introducing the Data Decisions Cloud.

27 March 2019

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

Unlocking future propositions by leveraging the value of Google Cloud

Jennifer Doherty, Regional Head of Innovation, HSBC, speaks at Money20/20 in Singapore about leveraging the value of Google Cloud, how it has helped HSBC build new services and propositions, why banks are taking a cloud strategy based on private and hybrid solutions, and HSBC's partnerships will develop in the future.

27 March 2019

News/ai

Money 20/20 Asia Q&A: Onfido’s Husayn Kassai on fixing identity services

Husayn Kassai, CEO and co-founder of Onfido, spoke to Finextra Research at Money 20/20 Asia in Singapore about the broken identity verification process, the role of machine learning in this space and the benefits of a pan-Asian KYC plan for identity services.

27 March 2019

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

Driving innovation in the challenging financial landscape

Andreas Burner, CIO, and Mark Taylor, Global Head of Sales, SmartStream, speak at Money20/20 ASIA in Singapore about AI adoption across APAC capital markets, where AI will have most impact going forward and which areas fintechs need to focus on in order to meet the demands of APAC.

26 March 2019

Company update/ai

AsiaCollect releases standalone SmartAgent credit management service

AsiaCollect, an end-to-end Credit Management Services (CMS) provider active across Emerging Asia, has released SmartAgent, its flagship Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, as a standalone product for collection agencies, digital lenders, banks and non-bank financial institutions in its core markets of India, Indonesia and Vietnam.

26 March 2019

News/ai

Bank of America's Erica chatbot wins over customers

Bank of America says customers are warming to its AI-driven virtual financial assistant Erica, which has surpassed 6 million users and completed more than 35 million client requests.

25 March 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

Banks of the future must maintain human touch

Technology has the potential to create seismic waves of change through banking that will alter consumer habits, but the industry will need to work hard to maintain trust and to ensure some customers are not left behind, says a report from UK bank CYBG.

22 March 2019

Company update/ai

MX and Personetics team up to bring AI-driven insights to FIs

MX, one of the fastest-growing fintech providers, partnering with more than 1,800 financial institutions and 43 of the top 50 digital banking providers, has announced a new technology partnership with Personetics, the leading provider of AI-powered personalization solutions used by the world’s top banks.

21 March 2019

Company update/regulation

Exiger names Alex Ceponkus global head, software engineering

Exiger, the leader in the provision of technology-enabled regulatory, financial crime, risk, and compliance solutions announced today that Alex Ceponkus has been named Senior Vice President, Global Head of Software Engineering of Exiger Tech, to drive innovation, scale and delivery of its technology solutions. He is based in Toronto.

15 March 2019

Company update/startups

Mastercard unveils latest Start Path startups

The world’s most promising startups and FinTechs today move like Mastercard – in microseconds. We may be different in size, but there are many more similarities than differences, which we witness through Start Path.

14 March 2019

Company update/ai