Latest Machine learning News: Finextra Research

Personalisation and customisation with data in the banking and payments industry

As customers increasingly experience more consistent, personalised treatment from companies across a wide variety of industries, it is natural for them to expect—and require—the same of financial services providers.

30 October 2020

News/wholesale

Multi-user access for Tide customers on the horizon

The chief technology officer of Tide has addressed concern by its customers that the platform does not offer multi-user access to its accounts.

29 October 2020

News/cloud

Google Cloud releases AI-powered mortgage processing tool

Google Cloud has unveiled an AI-powered tool designed to speed up the notoriously slow mortgage application process.

20 October 2020

News/devops

Sibos 2020: Let 'promiscuous' digital workers do the dirty (data) work

On day 3 of Sibos 2020, the conversation broached the weighty topic of tech execution, drawing links between the fundamental role of data in the ability of technology to reach its potential across financial services.

08 October 2020

News/retail

Sibos 2020: Big Tech companies are not looking to get into financial services – Jesse McWaters

Jesse McWaters, Mastercard’s vice president of global digital public policy, believes the way people think about Big Tech companies entering financial services are mistaken.

08 October 2020

News/wholesale

Client is king: How two US banks optimise tech execution

In anticipation of Sibos 2020, we zero-in on a key focus area that financial institutions across the payments landscape will be paying close attention to as technology becomes more complex, consumers more sophisticated, and margins ever-more slim. That is, getting the most out of technology investments by improving execution.

30 September 2020

News/cloud

How to combat payments fraud with machine learning in the cloud

Financial services customers are operating with faster speed and greater agility in the payments space, now more than ever with the incremental volume of card-not-present transactions, accelerated adoption of contactless payments, and new financing options at the point-of-sale, among other key trends.

11 September 2020

News/cloud

DBS uses gamified learning to give staffers AI skills

Singaporean bank DBS has joined forces with AWS to boost the AI and machine learning skills of thousands of staffers through a gamified learning programme that will see participants develop their own autonomous model race cars.

17 August 2020

News/retail

Standard Chartered partners Truera to combat bias in AI

Standard Chartered is teaming up with US outfit Truera to help tackle unjust bias in AI-assisted decision making.

05 August 2020

News/regulation

Machine learning: foe and friend for market surveillance

The rise of machine learning in trading is posing new challenges for market surveillance, but the technology could also be a useful tool for identifying abuse risks, according to a report from the FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB).

04 August 2020

News/regulation

ComplyAdvantage raises $50m for financial crime platform

AI-based financial crime detection startup ComplyAdvantage has closed a $50 million Series C funding round to fuel its international expansion plans.

28 July 2020

News/sustainable

Coordinating ESG solution ideation for investment and asset management

In June 2020, Finextra Research welcomed industry experts to Sustainable Finance Live, the first virtual interactive workshop to discuss how financial services firms and technology companies can achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

27 July 2020

News/retail

Russia's VTB Bank launches 'robot factory'

Russia's VTB Bank has launched a 'robot factory', with plans to roll 250 digital employees off the production line by the end of 2022.

21 July 2020

News/cloud

Deutsche Bank and Google Cloud agree multi-year deal

German banking giant Deutsche Bank has agreed a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud for the provision and joint development of cloud services.

07 July 2020

News/sustainable

More maturity needed from AI, DLT and IoT to power sustainable finance data

The executive director of Green Digital Finance Alliance, a partnership between Ant Financial and the UN Environment Programme, has told Finextra Research about the mixed picture in being able to harness new technology to collect and tap into the data required to drive investment for sustainable goals.

30 June 2020

News/cloud

How the cloud transforms customer experience in financial services

The bar to meet customer expectations across industries has continued to rise. Digital innovation is changing how companies engage their customers in every interaction, particularly how they deliver information as well as products and services.

26 June 2020

News/crime

Elucidate raises EUR2.5m for Financial Crime Index

Berlin-based financial crime risk quantification agency Elucidate has raised EUR2.5 million in a seed funding round led by Silicon Valley-based 11.2 Capital.

24 June 2020

News/retail

Fintech is an opportunity, not a threat - Hong Kong's banks

As they face up to competition from a slew of new 'virtual banks', Hong Kong's traditional lenders are broadly optimistic about their future in the fintech era.

22 May 2020

News/startups

SME lending platform Validus raises funds for push into Thailand

Singapore-based SME financing platform Validus has raised over US$14 million, with US$20 million in committed capital, in an ongoing Series B+ financing round.

12 May 2020

News/wealth

Northern Trust tapping data transparency and ESG to navigate volatility

American financial holding company Northern Trust’s head of front office solutions, Melanie Pickett, tells Finextra Research about some of the complexities in delivering reliable data analytics to institutional clients, which are of even greater importance during periods of volatility such as now.

30 April 2020