Latest Artificial intelligence News: Finextra Research

Company update/ai

Calculus Capital invests £2.5m in Essentia Analytics

Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Venture Capital Trust (VCT) specialist Calculus Capital has invested £2.5m in fintech company Essentia Analytics, a leading provider of behavioural data analytics and consulting for professional investors.

24 January 2019

Company update/ai

Grasshopper taps Solace for AI-powered trading

Grasshopper, Singapore’s leading proprietary trading firm and liquidity provider, has expanded its deployment of the Solace PubSub+ advanced event broker to offer enhanced capabilities that use machine learning for predictive trading.

22 January 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

Five emerging tech trends to watch in 2019

Beth Devin, head of innovation network and emerging technologies at Citi Ventures, selects five technologies that could have a major impact on financial institutions and their clients in 2019 and beyond.

21 January 2019

Company update/ai

AI to outperform human credit decisions by 2024 - survey

Artificial intelligence (AI) will produce more accurate, reliable and transparent credit decisions than human-based systems within five years, according to capital markets professionals surveyed by Intertrust.

21 January 2019

News/devops

ING builds analytics academy to help employees with data skills

ING is setting up an 'analytics academy' where any member of the Dutch bank's staff can brush up on their data skills.

18 January 2019

Company update/ai

Ingenico launches IBM Watson-enabled chatbot

Ingenico Group, the global leader in seamless payment, launched its innovative payment-enabled chatbot, which uses natural language processing (NLP) from IBM Watson to create a smooth customer experience.

14 January 2019

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

Interconnection and data at the edge

Eleni Coldrey, Business Development Director - EMEA lead for innovation in Financial Services, Equinix, talks about interconnection and data at the edge, what the biggest hurdles are around Open Banking and how interconnection is helping to support Open Banking.

14 January 2019

Company update/Artificial intelligence

Featurespace selected by everis for machine learning risk management

Featurespace, the leading machine learning Adaptive Behavioural Analytics fraud and risk management company, announced that everis, a multinational business consultancy serving clients in multiple sectors, has selected its ARIC™ platform to help banks combat payments and account fraud.

10 January 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

Investment Association opens second fintech cohort

The trade body for the UK's fund management industry, the Investment Association (IA), has extended its fintech accelerator initiative with the launch of a second cohort.

09 January 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

TD integrates chatbot into app

Canada's TD Bank has integrated an AI-powered chatbot called Clari into its mobile app to help users keep track of their spending.

09 January 2019

News/startups

Fountain City Fintech grads win investment from nbkc

Kansas City-based nbkc bank has invested in two Bay Area graduates of its Fountain City Fintech programme, a 75-day accelerator for scaling promising startups.

02 January 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

Lights, camera, action! Finextra TV highlights 2018

It’s been a busy year for the Finextra TV team, posting 251 video interviews with leading industry figures during the course of 2018. Here are the top five by viewing figures.

21 December 2018

News/Artificial intelligence

2018: The future of banking in the spotlight as digital trends take hold

As Finextra pulls the shutters down on 2018, we take a look back at our most popular news items and community engagement activities over the course of the past year. The site will re-open for business on 2 January 2019.

21 December 2018

News/Artificial intelligence

Finextra Research roundup: AI and Digital ID to the fore

Some very interesting narratives have emerged over the course of 2018 through Finextra’s reports, most of which we expect to progress into increasingly diverse and innovative discussions during 2019.

21 December 2018

Company update/ai

Aiera nails $3.5 million in funding

Aiera (pronounced “era”), an adaptive deep learning platform designed to enhance active fundamental investment strategies, announced today a $3.5 million seed funding round led by Boston-based Flybridge Capital Partners.

20 December 2018

Company update/security

Citi searches for fraud in real-time transactions with Feedzai machine learning tech

Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions has entered into a strategic partnership with Feedzai, a leader in Artificial intelligence (AI) for real-time risk management across banking and commerce.

19 December 2018

News/ai

ING develops early warning system for credit risk

ING has partnered with Google and PwC to develop an AI-enabled system capable of crunching huge volumes of financial data in search of hidden signals that indicate heightened levels of credit risk.

19 December 2018

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

Innovating from the outside in

Craig Young, Chief Information Officer, SWIFT, speaks at SOFE 2018 about the importance of innovation to SWIFTS growth and relevance for the future and which technology trends in the market are most promising.

18 December 2018

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

Changing attitudes towards Cyber Security

Dawn Gabay, Cyber Security Specialist, Atos, speaks about changing consumer attitudes towards cyber security, what actions financial organisations need to take to improve customer experience and their security, and why this is essential for keeping loyal customers.

18 December 2018

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

The fight against financial crime

Richard Grint, Financial Services Expert, PA Consulting, speaks at NextGen Nordics 2018 in Stockholm about the biggest trends in the Financial Crime Compliance space, how important new technologies will be in the fight against Financial Crime and what impact they will have on the public sector.

14 December 2018