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

Cybersecurity dominates EU Fintech Action Plan

Cybersecurity takes top billing in the European Union's upcoming Fintech Action Plan, with a draft emphasising efforts to improve cooperation and coordination between market participants and regulators.

06 February 2018

Company update/Artificial intelligence

Tandem partners Personetics for 'worry free banking'

Tandem, The Good Bank, is partnering with Personetics, the leading provider of Cognitive Banking applications, to harness the power of artificial intelligence for the benefit of their customers.

05 February 2018

Company update/Artificial intelligence

Sainsbury's and British Land chairs joins Previse advisory board

Previse, the AI supplier payments decision making company, today announces four high profile additions to its advisory board.

05 February 2018

News/Artificial intelligence

Credit Suisse hires virtual IT support agent Amelia

Credit Suisse has added a new member to its IT support team - Amelia, an AI-powered virtual agent who helps thousands of the bank's human employees with their day-to-day tech problems.

05 February 2018

News/Artificial intelligence

Israel Discount Bank digital assistant gives customers personalised guidance

Israel Discount Bank has launched an AI-driven digital assistant that not only answers customer questions but proactively offers personalised insights and guidance.

02 February 2018

News/Artificial intelligence

Clearstream to explore the use of AI for improving software development

International depository Clearstream is collaborating with the University of Luxembourg to investigate the use of artificial intelligence in determining user expectations and functional specifications for new IT systems.

02 February 2018

News/Artificial intelligence

Unicredit launches iPhone-only buddybank

Italy's Unicredit is trying to give banking's staid image a makeover and make it "cool" through the launch of a mobile-only subsidiary called buddybank.

01 February 2018

Company update/Artificial intelligence

Overstock launches robo-advisor digital investment platform

Overstock.com (NASDAQ: OSTK) announces the launch of a digitally driven investment platform, powered by tZERO Advisors, within the online retailer’s FinanceHub™.

31 January 2018

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

Blockchain: beyond Bitcoin

Nicolò Romani, Head of Innovation SIA, talks about the extraordinary variety of business applications a permissioned blockchain infrastructure could lend itself to, the impact it will have in the financial sector and whether it represents a revolution at global level.

31 January 2018

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

Navigating customers and staying competitive

Saskia Devolder, Head of Western and Central Europe, SWIFT, talks about the challenges banks are facing in the payments arena, how they should cater to the needs of their clients and how service providers are navigating their customers around instant payments, GPI and AI.

31 January 2018

News/Artificial intelligence

Virtual assistant startup Finn.ai hires ex-Twitter exec Stephen Morse

Canadian financial services virtual assistant startup Finn.ai has become the latest fintech firm to bring in a Twitter veteran, hiring the social media outfit's former head of global financial data partnerships, Stephen Morse.

30 January 2018

News/Artificial intelligence

Western Union opens Indian tech centre

Western Union has opened a technology centre in Pune, India, employing more than 1000 staffers working on areas such as robotics, machine learning and biometrics.

30 January 2018

News/Artificial intelligence

AmEx buys virtual travel assistant Mezi

American Express has acquired Mezi, an AI-powered travel assistant app that helps users plan and book trips. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

30 January 2018

Company update/Artificial intelligence

PwC and Simudyne team up to bring AI to financial services

PwC and Simudyne have teamed up to help give financial services companies the predictive power to plan for the future, through the combination of artificial intelligence (AI) simulation software and consulting services.

30 January 2018

News/Artificial intelligence

Deutsche Bank joins WEF centre to help shape the robot future

As the great and the good gather in Davos, Deutsche Bank has joined the World Economic Forum's Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a project dedicated to "maximising the benefits and minimising the risks" of emerging technology.

26 January 2018

News/Artificial intelligence

Personal finance bot Cleo adds charity donation option

AI-based personal finance chatbot Cleo has introduced a one-click charity giving feature designed to appeal to young Brits who make donations on an ad hoc basis.

25 January 2018

Company update/Artificial intelligence

Piccadilly Group introduces 'management consultant killer' Neuro

Piccadilly Group has launched NEURO, an AI business platform that will eradicate the need for one in four management consultants, saving businesses approximately $122.bn globally.

23 January 2018

News/Artificial intelligence

CBA introduces Ceba the chatbot

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has added an AI-powered chatbot to its apps that can help customers with more than 200 banking task.

19 January 2018

News/Artificial intelligence

Nuvo unveils AI-powered mortgage broker chatbot

UK fintech startup Nuvo has launched an artificial intelligence-powered Facebook chatbot that helps people find the best deals on mortgages.

18 January 2018

Company update/Artificial intelligence

AI fintech startup Trend Lab secures $12.7 million angel funding

Across the globe, the internet finance industry is developing rapidly with the rise of technologies like Electronic Payments, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Block Chain and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

17 January 2018