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

Company update/ai

Ideal Predictions adds natural language processing to trade analysis service

Ideal Prediction, the independent trading analysis and data science company for capital markets, today announced the addition of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to its automated analytics services.

01 May 2019

Company update/devops

Digital banking software provider Technisys raises $50m

Technisys, a leading provider of an innovative digital banking software platform, announced it has closed $50 million in its latest Series C financing round led by Riverwood Capital.

30 April 2019

News/ai

RBC applies AI to budgeting in mobile app

Royal Bank of Canada's mobile banking app is using artificial intelligence to automatically categorise user spending trends and offer tips on better money management.

30 April 2019

News/ai

Citi to develop AI-based trade finance compliance platform

Citi is working with EY and SAS to on the development of an AI-based risk analytics scoring engine to provide more context and usable data to aid decision makers in reviewing trade transactions.

30 April 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

Swift Business Forum Ireland 2019 - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's coverage of the Swift Business Forum Ireland 2019, live from Croke Park in Dublin. The day's agenda promises to explore how Irish financial institutions can capitalise on unprecedented technological change to deliver a truly digital customer experience.

30 April 2019

Company update/ai

Fractal Labs scores investment from Deloitte

We are excited to announce that Deloitte has invested in the Fractal team to help us further our mission to revolutionise the financial services experience small businesses get today.

29 April 2019

Company update/regulation

Hampshire Trust Bank turns to Jaywing for IFRS 9 stress testing

Credit risk and Artificial Intelligence (AI) expert, Jaywing, has been appointed by Hampshire Trust Bank (HTB), the UK-based asset finance, property finance and specialist mortgage provider, to help enhance its forecasting framework and comply with IFRS 9 stress test requirements for this year’s ICAAP.

29 April 2019

News/ai

Regions Bank enlists IBM Watson for call centre work

Regions Bank is tapping IBM's Watson AI technology in its call centres to help improve customer service and free up staffers to deal with more complex issues.

25 April 2019

News/payments

Stripe Billing lands in Europe

Stripe is promising to help subscription and SaaS companies in Europe get paid faster, and ensure compliance with new authentication rules, through the introduction of its recurring billing product.

25 April 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

Automation could displace 40 FS industry job roles - Singapore study

Dozens of financial services job roles will see much of their work taken by data analytics and automation in the next few years, according to a new report from Singapore, which is preparing for the radical workforce shift with a new career training programme focused on emerging technology roles.

24 April 2019

News/security

N26 to open security-focused tech centre in Vienna

N26 is opening a technology and innovation centre in Vienna that will focus on using AI to detect fraudulent transactions - which have reportedly been a problem for the digital bank, prompting a probe by German regulators.

23 April 2019

Company update/Artificial intelligence

TD Bank opts for Microsoft Azure

TD Bank Group (NYSE: TD) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today announced a strategic relationship in which TD will use Microsoft Azure as the cloud foundation to provide its technology and design teams with tools designed for secure, agile and flexible access to data and AI resources.

23 April 2019

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

Banking functions through AI: The next user interface.

Adam Cheyer, Co-Founder & VP Engineering, Viv & Siri, speaks at The Temenos Community Forum 2019 in The Hague about how banks are embedding AI solutions into their organisations, the business functions behind this, how AI technology has changed the way banks interact with their customers and how can commercialise through AI.

23 April 2019

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

The State of Fintech

Megan Caywood, Global Head of Digital Strategy, Barclays, speaks about the state of play in fintech, how banks should work with fintechs, whether they can provide the best services by mimicking neobanks and by using the trendiest technology available, how they can best help fintechs post sandbox stage and whether European banks should follow the Asia Model.

23 April 2019

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

The opportunities of Cloud-Native and Cloud-Agnostic

Tony Coleman, Cloud Technology Director, Temenos & Bob Walmsley, CEO, NuoDB, speak at The Temenos Community Forum 2019 in The Hague about Cloud-Native and Cloud-Agnostic, the opportunities it creates for organisations, how the pace of innovation within the banking industry is a driving huge change and where Temenos' partnership with NuoDB fits it.

23 April 2019

News/startups

Credit Kudos raises £2.2 million

Challenger credit bureau Credit Kudos has raised £2.2m in a funding round led by Ascension Ventures.

18 April 2019

Finextra TV/Artificial intelligence

Business models meeting the demands of digital

Derek Corcoran, Chief Experience Officer, Temenos, speaks at The Temenos Community Forum 2019 in The Hague about digital trends in front office business functions, how financial institutions are responding to the demands of consumers and what business models are best suited to meet these demands.

18 April 2019

Company update/ai

Accuity introduces AI-powered financial crime compliance screening

Accuity, the leading provider of financial crime compliance, payments, and Know Your Customer (KYC) solutions, has announced its AI-driven account screening capability, ‘Firco Automated Alert Reduction’, which increases the level of accuracy in detecting and evaluating screening matches during the KYC process.

16 April 2019

Company update/ai

Jumio promotes Robert Prigge to president

Jumio, the leading AI-powered trusted identity as a service provider, today announced the promotion of Robert Prigge to president.

16 April 2019

Company update/ai

MX unveils AI-driven financial wellness tool

MX, the leading provider of financial data services, today announced MoneyMap with Pulse – a completely self-guided financial wellness tool that banks and credit unions can use to empower their customers to become financially strong.

15 April 2019