Latest Artificial intelligence News: Finextra Research

RBC unit Borealis AI to open artificial intelligence lab in Montreal

Continuing its investment in the Canadian artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem, Borealis AI, an RBC Institute for Research, today announced that it will open a lab in Montreal, one of Canada’s most prominent AI hubs.

21 November 2017

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Spotting trends in the payments ecosystem

Bruno Mellado, Global Head of Payments and Receivables, BNP Paribas, and Christophe Vergne, Payments and World Payments Report Leader, Capgemini's Financial Services talk at Sibos 2017 about non-cash transaction volume worldwide, the impact of new key regulations and industry initiatives (KRIIs) and the emergence of a new payments ecosystem.

21 November 2017

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From strategy to implementation using process technology

Parviz Peiravi, CTO Financial Services, Intel, and Alessandro Petroni, Global Head of Strategy, Financial Services, Red Hat, talk at Sibos 2017 about how financial institutions can successfully make the move from strategy to implementation and what they see as the most influential technologies shaping the industry today, including blockchain, AI and cloud.

20 November 2017

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ForwardLane unveils AI APIs

ForwardLane, a FinTech start-up based in New York City, is a next generation artificial intelligence (AI) company using machine learning to aggregate and scale firm-specific content, market data news, investment research, product materials, and strategic analytics for financial professionals to deliver personalized stories for their clients.

16 November 2017

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Boardroom ignorance holding back bank's tech plans

Bank's IT departments are unable to pursue innovation with the latest digital technologies because they have lost influence in the boardroom with senior managers that do not properly understand new technology.

16 November 2017

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Singapore offers $20m grant for banks' AI and data projects

Singapore has stepped up its fintech ambitions with the offer of a S$27m ($19.91m) grant to promote the further use of artificial intelligence and data analytics in the financial services market.

15 November 2017

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Emirates NBD goes digital in Dubai

Emirates NBD, a leading banking group in the region, today opened its first paperless digital branch at Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC).

15 November 2017

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Ally Bank plugs into Alexa

Ally Bank today announced the launch of the Ally Skill for Alexa providing customers a quick and easy way to access and manage their Ally Bank accounts using an Amazon® Alexa-enabled device.

14 November 2017

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Completing the last mile with AI

Gerry Gibney, Senior Strategist, Financial Services, OpenText, talks at Sibos 2017 about how AI is helping banks in the payments business by reducing cost and human inefficiency, whilst improving customer experience, and what the barriers are behind the benefits.

14 November 2017

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Bringing clarity to PSD2 challenges for payments and retail operators

John Snoek, VP Product & Operations, Acapture & Payvision, talks about how the arrival of PSD2 will disrupt the marketplace and what business opportunities the industry can expect to see from the regulation.

14 November 2017

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Standard Chartered to roll out AI chatbot

Standard Chartered is to launch an AI-powered chatbot to provide clients with natural language assistance in managing money, making payments and analysing their spending.

14 November 2017

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From tepid revenue to a doubling in growth

Patricia Hines, Senior Analyst, Celent, and Simon Paris, Deputy CEO, Finastra, talk at Sibos 2017 about the recently launched research paper on Connected Corporate Banking and what its statistics on revenue pools tell us about revenue opportunities in corporate banking, what their advice is for banks hoping to take advantage of those pools and what risks banks face in failing to invest in new technology.

13 November 2017

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NAB goes on tech hiring spree

As it kicks off a three-year programme designed to simplify the bank and reshape its workforce for the digital age, Australia's NAB is promising to immediately hire 600 technology specialists in the areas of software engineering, data, architecture and security.

10 November 2017

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Breaking the rip and replace cycle

Nadeem Syed, CEO, Finastra, talks at Sibos 2017 about the challenges banks face today, how they can break the rip and replace cycle while they look for faster ROI and what is driving the gain in momentum towards open APIs.

09 November 2017

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Data is the new oil

David Puth, Chief Executive Officer, CLS, talks at Sibos 2017 about the big picture trends shaping the foreign exchange market, what data and processing settlement challenges the market is facing, and the growing level of influence of blockchain and DLT.

09 November 2017

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OCBC taps ThetaRay for AI-based AML screening project

On any one typical work day, an OCBC Bank anti-money laundering (AML) compliance analyst would log into the bank’s transaction monitoring system and find up to hundreds of potentially suspicious transactions he or she had to review.

08 November 2017

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Banks look to utilise the richness of the cloud

Nadish Lad, Global Head of Payments Products, Volante Technologies, talks at Sibos 2017 about the growing trend towards payments as a service in the cloud, how easy it is to put a payments suite in the cloud, and what sort of services customers can expect to see being offered in the cloud.

08 November 2017

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Testing tools towards AI

Philippe Ruault, Head of Digital Transformation, BNP Paribas Securities Services, talks at Sibos 2017 about the launch of the Tata Consultancy Services partnership to bring efficiency to corporate action notifications, how artificial intelligence will be used, and what progress there has been made on big data.

08 November 2017

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The tuning of use cases over time

Andy Hirst, VP Banking Solutions (IBU), SAP, talks at Sibos 2017 about how he would define machine learning and how it has developed, what value the use cases of ML have had in corporate banking and how he sees the use of ML evolving in the near future.

08 November 2017

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Change legacy back ends for true transformation

Jukka Salonen, Chief Portfolio Officer, Nordea talks at Sibos 2017 about investment into transforming traditional banks into E2E digital banks, what role AI and robotics play in this transformation and why learning and culture change within companies are so important in the process.

07 November 2017