Big data

309 articles tagged with this keyword

All articles with this keyword
Apply Cancel
Russia's VTB uses AI and Big Data to locate branches and ATMs

/retail

Russia's VTB uses AI and Big Data to locate branches and ATMs

VTB, Russia’s second largest bank, has begun using artificial intelligence to determine the ideal locations for branches and ATMs.

EBAday 2021: Payments transformation and the road to success

/payments

EBAday 2021: Payments transformation and the road to success

Finextra Research and the Euro Banking Association today welcomed the global banking community to EBAday 2021. Running from 28-30 June, the virtual conference is being led by some of the most influential leaders and practitioners in the financial services sector, and dives into the current and future trends of the European and international payments landscape – as well as the latest developments across digital banking, liquidity management, open banking, real-time payments, and more.

AML regulations driving up compliance costs across UK

/regulation

AML regulations driving up compliance costs across UK

A new report by LexisNexis Risk Solutions has found that increased AML regulations, more so than criminal threats, are intensifying compliance costs for UK financial institutions.

HSBC unveil AI-powered equity index structured product

/markets

HSBC unveil AI-powered equity index structured product

HSBC has added an AI-powered equity index structured product to its wealth offerings in Hong Kong.

Sustainable Finance Live: How to value nature and better assess financial risk

/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live: How to value nature and better assess financial risk

On 11th May, Finextra hosted the first workshop of its two-day virtual event, Sustainable Finance Live. The interactive session brought together expert investors and asset managers to explore how to build a portfolio that effectively supports biodiversity, natural capital, and ecosystem services.

2021: A year to unite sustainable finance standards and taxonomies

/sustainable

2021: A year to unite sustainable finance standards and taxonomies

In his FinextraTV predictions interview for 2021, David Harris, group head of sustainable business at London Stock Exchange Group, speaks to how the year is likely to see sizeable progress around sustainability.

Nordea: Regulation is an opportunity for data-driven technology

/sustainable

Nordea: Regulation is an opportunity for data-driven technology

Speaking with Finextra Research, Tino Kam, head of transaction banking solutions, Nordea, outlines the core objectives and predictions for the bank into 2021, and how regulatory and technological disruption can be viewed as a positive influence on financial services.

Open data will catalyse the UK’s progress to net-zero

/sustainable

Open data will catalyse the UK’s progress to net-zero

Data sharing is key to designing financial instruments and creating demonstrable Net Zero results, noted Gavin Starks, CEO of Icebreaker One, in a FinextraTV interview.

ALT/AVE to drive new funding into its DLT offering

/sustainable

ALT/AVE to drive new funding into its DLT offering

Having secured £535,000 investment, regtech ALT/AVE plans to further develop its distributed ledger solution docStribute, to expand its core uses beyond financial services.

Ant Group and Tencent promote their work on digital yuan with PBoC – SCMP

/crypto

Ant Group and Tencent promote their work on digital yuan with PBoC – SCMP

This weekend, the two Chinese fintech giants Ant Group and Tencent prominently displayed posters during the Digital China Summit outlining a “history of cooperation with the PBoC on the digital yuan” according to the South China Morning Post.

Rishi Sunak announces UK Treasury and BofE fintech taskforce to explore CBDC

/wholesale

Rishi Sunak announces UK Treasury and BofE fintech taskforce to explore CBDC

Chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak announced today the launch of new fintech taskforce to “coordinate exploratory work on a potential central bank digital currency,” led by the UK Treasury and Bank of England.

CBA taps Big Data and machine learning to support customers hit by natural disasters

/retail

CBA taps Big Data and machine learning to support customers hit by natural disasters

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is harnessing machine learning technology and Big Data science to offer customers same-day, pro-active emergency assistance in the event of weather-induced natural disasters.

BBVA taps Google Cloud Chronicle to build AI security platform

/cloud

BBVA taps Google Cloud Chronicle to build AI security platform

BBVA has today announced that it will be the first bank in Europe to deploy Google Cloud’s security analytics platform Chronicle and will use AI and machine learning to predict and prevent cyberattacks.

Wells Fargo leads $20m Series A for cash management startup Trovata

/wholesale

Wells Fargo leads $20m Series A for cash management startup Trovata

Trovata, a US startup specialising in automating cash reporting and forecasting through wholesale, multi-bank API data aggregation, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round led by Wells Fargo Strategic Capital.

How banks and financial services players will monetise open banking

/devops

How banks and financial services players will monetise open banking

Joined by executives from the financial services ecosystem, Celent’s head of corporate banking Patricia Hines took to the Sibos virtual stage to lead a discussion on the potential for building on ROI with APIs.

Sustainable Finance Live: Building actionable ESGtech strategies with a partnership ecosystem

/sustainable

Sustainable Finance Live: Building actionable ESGtech strategies with a partnership ecosystem

Finextra Research and Responsible Risk hosted Sustainable Finance Live this week, the third workshop in a series of events encouraging collaboration in the ESGtech space.

Survey highlights data scientists shortage

/people

Survey highlights data scientists shortage

The search for meaningful data insights has highlighted the shortage of specialised data science skills within the financial services industry.

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella on how to build partnerships ‘beyond two ships passing in the night’

/cloud

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella on how to build partnerships ‘beyond two ships passing in the night’

Months after striking a deal with Microsoft to become a ‘cloud-first’ bank and migrate all core applications to the cloud by 2025, Bill Winters, group chief executive of Standard Chartered joins Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft at Singapore Fintech Festival 2020 to discuss resilience, the future of digital transformation and why a good partnership is central to achieving this.

Visa Apac accelerator programme invites fintechs to join inaugural cohort

/payments

Visa Apac accelerator programme invites fintechs to join inaugural cohort

Visa is encouraging fintech startups across the Asia Pacific region to apply for one of six places in its new Accelerator Program, launching today.

‘Lifting the lid on Fintech’- customer-focused innovation or dangerous corporate power grab?

/retail

‘Lifting the lid on Fintech’- customer-focused innovation or dangerous corporate power grab?

The finance sector's decision to ape Big Tech and adopt platform business models enabled and powered by the mass acquisition and manipulation of data is creating new risks for society, warns a report from the Finance Innovation Lab.

Welcome to Finextra. We use cookies to help us to deliver our services. You may change your preferences at our Cookie Centre.

Please read our Privacy Policy.

Accept