Latest Artificial intelligence News: Finextra Research

Orange to leverage synergy between telco and financial services to compete with banks

After news that Orange had joined forces with MTN, one of Africa’s largest telcos, to form an interoperable mobile money transfer service dubbed Mowali, the new bank revealed the economics behind diversifying their mobile financial services at an event on Friday.

30 November 2018

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The future of the technology within the Securities Industry

Graham Ray, Global Head of Sales & Relationship Management for Financial Intermediaries, BNP Paribas Securities Services, speaks at Sibos 2018 in Sydney about how DLT is evolving today in securities services, what the practical applications of AI are in post-trade and where APIs fit in.

30 November 2018

News/Sibos

Swift Operations Forum Europe 2018, Amsterdam - Day 2 report

Cyber crime dominated conversation on day 2 of the Swift Operations Forum Europe (SOFE) 2018 - from examples of how hackers have evolved and the methods they now use, to how institutions can protect themselves and what organisations should do when the worst happens.

30 November 2018

Company update/ai

Stackr launches AI-powered savings tool

Stackr, the complete global long-term savings solution, introduces a personalized trust structure that allows investors to hold both capital and digital assets.

29 November 2018

News/Sibos

Swift Operations Forum Europe 2018, Amsterdam - Day 1 report

Innovation in financial services and the application of new technologies dominated conversation on day 1 of the Swift Operations Forum Europe (SOFE) 2018.

29 November 2018

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KYC vs KYT

Nick Armstrong, CEO, Identitii, speaks at Sibos 2018 in Sydney about why KYT is on the rise, what additional due diligence controls and benefits it offers, what the benefits of capturing data at a transaction level are and whether it compliments or replaces KYC.

28 November 2018

Company update/ai

Cathay Bank selects QuantaVerse AI financial crime tech

QuantaVerse, the first in the market with artificial intelligence (AI) solutions purpose-built for identifying financial crimes, today announced it has signed an agreement with Cathay General Bancorp, a holding company for Cathay Bank, a California state-charted bank.

27 November 2018

Company update/ai

Credit Suisse sponsors professorship in robotics

Credit Suisse Asset Management is entering a strategic partnership with one of the world’s top-tier universities to support an additional professorship in the field of robotics, a thriving field of global impact.

27 November 2018

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Standardisation today: The importance of common data standards

Stephen Gilderdale, Chief Platform Officer, SWIFT, speaks at Sibos 2018 in Sydney about the potential of APIs, the role of standardisation and the importance of common data standards to players across the financial ecosystem.

26 November 2018

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New technologies and the next generation of trade

Nancy Amert, Director Trade and Supply Chain Finance & Rory Kaplan, Director Trade and Supply Chain Finance, CGI, speak at Sibos 2018 in Sydney about the key takeaways from this years event around trade, which technologies we should be focusing on, what their potential impact is and where they are heading.

26 November 2018

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The potential of machine learning in risk management

Tim Clarsen, Risk Management Specialist, Murex, speaks at Sibos 2018 in Sydney about whether AI can accelerate pricing models and optimise your capital markets infrastructure, what problem machine learning is addressing in risk management and whether the calculation of derivatives can be sped-up through the use of neural networks.

26 November 2018

Company update/Artificial intelligence

FairMoney opens £1m pre-series A to drive next-gen AI lending

FairMoney, the fair loan comparison website, is launching the Fair Finance Community Board (FFCB) in the regions. This coincides with the commencement of its pre-series A raise of £1m.

22 November 2018

Company update/ai

DWS Group buys stake in real estate asset management tech firm Skyline AI

DWS Group today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with and has become a minority shareholder in Skyline AI, a real estate asset management technology company.

21 November 2018

News/retail

University of Sussex introduces fintech undergraduate course

In a first for England, from next year the University of Sussex is introducing a BSc Finance and Technology (Fintech) degree.

20 November 2018

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Saving costs and generating revenue through AI, ML and RPA

Robert Graham, Executive Vice President Financial Services, Virtusa, speaks at Sibos 2018 in Sydney about AI, ML and RPA, whether they should be seen as operational cost saving or revenue generating projects, and where solutions are being deployed.

15 November 2018

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Advancing the digitisation of trade

Farooq Siddiqi, Global Head of Trade, Standard Chartered, speaks at Sibos 2018 in Sydney about the current state of affairs for trade digitisation, how close we are to seeing trade being digitised, what the existing challenge is and what needs to be done.

15 November 2018

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APAC and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Martin Frick, Managing Director, APAC, Temenos, speaks at Sibos 2018 in Sydney about APAC being a fragmented market, what the 'Fourth Industrial Revolution' means for the APAC region, and how new entrants and neo-banks are challenging the status quo in financial services.

15 November 2018

Company update/ai

Tricolor adds AI to improve risk scoring for underserved Hispanic community

Tricolor, the nation’s largest used vehicle retailer focusing on the sale and financing of vehicles to the Hispanic consumer, today announced an exclusive agreement with Phenx Machine Learning Technologies, Inc.,to expand an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered financial services platform serving Hispanic consumers.

15 November 2018

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Revamping banks' digital architecture

Miguel Rio-Tinto, Group Chief Information Officer, Emirates NBD, speaks at the Infosys Finacle Conclave 2018 in Antwerp about what helps build a successful digital organisation, and how banks can accelerate their digital journey and drive business growth.

15 November 2018

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Universal GPI adoption for 2020

Thierry Chilosi, Head of Revenue Management and Pricing, SWIFT, speaks at Sibos 2018 in Sydney about what the ‘tracker for all’ does and how its improving gpi, what progress has been made with adoption so far and how many payments have been sent across to gpi.

15 November 2018