Machine learning

News/startups

Debt resolution startup Ophelos raises £5m

Debt resolution technology firm Ophelos has raised £5 million in a seed funding round led by AlbionVC.

29 June 2022

Finextra TV/wholesale

The customer engagement imperative: What banks can learn from the FinTech playbook

Gareth Wilson, UK Banking and Capital Markets business lead, Capgemini & Elias Ghanem, Vice President and Global Head of Capgemini Research Institute for Financial Services, reflect on the growth of digitalization across the industry and a shift in customer needs. They discuss the challenges banks are facing as a result, what they should be investing in and leveraging to tackle this challenge, and how they can use data and AI/ML technologies to create superior customer experiences that drive growth. They also reflect on how positioning the CMO as a customer strategist and chief engagement officer can further enhance growth opportunities.

10 May 2022

Research/Machine learning

The Future of Digital Identity 2022

06 May 2022 1077 downloads

News/payments

Tencent invests in UK fintech

Chinese ecommerce giant Tencent has led a funding round into London-based fintech Previse.

22 April 2022

News/wholesale

NextGen Nordics: Danske Bank announces Trade AI app

Ahead of our NextGen Nordics conference on the 27th of April 2022, we will be putting together a weekly briefing of selected top stories that are emerging out of the region and setting the blueprint for payments innovation across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

25 March 2022

News/crypto

Tintra announces world's first built-for-purpose Web 3.0 bank

RegTech firm, Tintra, has just announced the next stage in its development strategy – the launch of the world’s first ever Web 3.0 banking platform.

18 March 2022

News/startups

Ex-HSBC exec takes on global data governance headache

Former HSBC chief administration officer Chuck Teixeira has raised $1.2 million from angel investors for a 'data enablement' software startup.

17 March 2022

News/cloud

NatWest taps AWS for data-driven services

NatWest Group is working with Amazon Web Services to bring together data from across its business in order to better anticipate the needs of customers.

11 March 2022

News/crypto

FTX turns to Stripe for payments and ID verification

Crypto giant FTX and its US subsidiary have chosen Stripe to build an onboarding and identity verification flow for users joining the exchange, and to power payments for people adding funds to their accounts.

11 March 2022

News/cloud

US Bank picks Microsoft Azure for cloud migration

US Bank says it is making a "substantial" investment in modernising its technology foundation by choosing Microsoft Azure as its primary cloud provider for its applications.

24 February 2022

News/startups

ING Labs spinout raises $16m for AI-powered search engine software

ING Labs spin-out startup SeMI Technologies has raised $16 million for its open-source Weaviate vector-search database.

23 February 2022

Research/Machine learning

The Future of Regulation 2022

07 February 2022 1112 downloads

News/markets

Humans trump AI at making money in financial markets - study

Humans still have the edge over artificial intelligence when it comes to making money in the financial markets, according to a new paper which raises questions about previous research into the topic.

03 February 2022

News/payments

Mastercard launches virtual card for instant B2B payments

Mastercard has unveiled a virtual card offering that uses machine learning and straight-through processing for instant payment of supplier invoices.

21 January 2022

News/sustainable

City of London policy chair hails UK capital as a centre of green finance

This week, the FCA and the City of London Corporation held a demo day for its Sustainability Cohort initiative, which aims to further green the financial sector and catalyse the transition to net zero.

18 January 2022