Latest Big data News: Finextra Research

Singapore to develop ethical code for AI and personal data use

Singapore's government has outlined plans to develop a governance programme around the use of artificial intelligence and personal data in its bid to become an international centre for new technology.

13 June 2018

News/Big data

Enterprise Ireland launches fintech fund

Ireland's state-owned economic development agency Enterprise Ireland has announced the launch of a €750,000 Competitive Start Fund for promising fintech startups.

12 June 2018

News/Big data

Live: Swift Latin American Regional Conference - day two

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Latin American Regional Conference 2018, in Miami. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry in the region, and how the financial community can seize the opportunities that are emerging.

06 June 2018

News/Big data

Live: Swift Latin American Regional Conference - day one

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Latin American Regional Conference 2018, in Miami. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry in the region, and how the financial community can seize the opportunities that are emerging.

05 June 2018

Company update/Big data

TDH retains Ian Green as lead data scientist and technology consultant

The Disruption House (TDH), the leading financial technology benchmarking and data analytics business, is delighted to announce Ian Green has been retained as Principle Consultant - Data Science and Technology.

05 June 2018

Research/Big data

Meeting EU Regulatory Requirements in A Post Data Breach Era

04 June 2018 719 downloads

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350 jobs to go as Deutsche Bourse allocates investment in new tech

Deutsche Bourse plans to spend EUR270 million on blockchain, big data analytics, cloud computing, as well as robotics and artificial intelligence, as part of a 2020 roadmap that will see 350 jobs cut to increase scope for new tech investments.

30 May 2018

Company update/Big data

Big data firm QuantCube raises $5 million

QuantCube Technology, an AI start-up and provider of macroeconomic and financial predictive analytics based on alternative data, announced today that it has completed a Series A funding round of $5 million from Moody’s Corporation and Five Capital, the investment fund sponsored by CDC International Capital (Caisse des Dépôts Group) and Kingdom Holding Company.

30 May 2018

News/Big data

NextGen Banking London - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of NextGen Banking London. The event promises to explore what the AI revolution means for banks - and what financial institutions need to do to benefit from AI, and ensure their customers do so as well.

17 May 2018

News/Big data

Irish bank caught in social media spying storm

Allied Irish Bank (AIB) has been accused of spying on its customers after it emerged that it monitors mortgage holders' social media accounts

14 May 2018

News/Big data

Hong Kong brings lending decisions into the digital age

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is looking to bring lending into the digital age, allowing banks to forgo traditional credit checks on some personal loans in favour of big data analysis.

11 May 2018

Company update/Big data

Citi adds more features to data and analytics platform

Citi announces the rollout of key enhancements to Citi Velocity Clarity, its award-winning data and analytics platform which utilizes big data and private cloud technology, delivered through an integrated suite of advanced online capabilities.

02 May 2018

Research/Big data

How to Realise a Digital Strategy in Financial Services

30 April 2018 962 downloads

News/Big data

Deutsche Bank looks to big data for stock price clues

Deutsche Bank's research unit has unveiled an interactive web tool that uses big data in an effort to quantify the importance of intangibles, such as environmental and social issues, on stock prices.

27 April 2018

News/Big data

Swift Business Forum London - live blog

Welcome to Finextra's live coverage of the Swift Business Forum London 2018. This event will focus on important issues affecting the financial industry, exploring how far and how fast the transformation of financial services will take place in the UK and beyond.

24 April 2018

News/Big data

'Fake data' will make banks vulnerable - Accenture

Many banks are not doing enough to verify the validity and accuracy of their data, leaving them vulnerable to false insights that could lead to bad decisions, according to Accenture.

20 April 2018

Company update/Big data

Fortytwo Data appoints Luca Primerano as chief AI officer

Anti-money laundering (AML) and Big Data specialist Fortytwo Data has appointed machine learning expert Luca Primerano as Chief AI Officer.

16 April 2018

News/Big data

Microsoft defends support for controversial Cloud Act

A long-running court battle between Microsoft and the US government about whether the latter had the right to access emails held in Microsoft's Irish data centre has come to an anticlimactic end after a judge dismissed the case, ruling it to be "moot" due to the recent passing of the Cloud (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data) Act.

05 April 2018

News/Big data

Singapore's MAS preps guidelines for ethical use of AI and data analytics

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has brought together industry players to work on guidelines for the "responsible and ethical" use of AI and data analytics in the financial services sector.

04 April 2018

Company update/Big data

ITRS releases integrations to monitor open source big data technologies

ITRS has released a set of six fully-supported integrations to monitor key big data technologies used in financial services today including Kafka, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra and Elasticsearch.

04 April 2018