SaaS start-up Summit launches spend management platform
Summit claims it can cut the accounts payable processing time by up to 75%.
Machine Learning
Robinhood buys AI-powered investment research platform Pluto Capital
The deal comes less than a month after the digital trading platform announced its $200 million purchase of Bitstamp.
Is your bank’s architecture trapped in the past? It’s time to recompose it
European banks must accelerate their journey to recompose architecture, with AI and GenAI as differentiators.
Video: FinovateSpring 2024 – what’s hot and what’s not in fintech
We ask three industry professionals what’s hot and what’s not in the fintech sector this year.
The rise of instant payments: protecting consumers from criminals in 10 seconds
How can financial institutions strike a balance between speed and safety with instant payments?
Video: Code and capital – AI as a co-pilot in financial services
Sarah Hinkfuss of Bain Capital Ventures discusses the growing number of use cases for AI in financial services.
June 2024: Top five AI stories of the month
FinTech Futures takes a look back at five of the top AI stories from June.
Brazil’s Nubank buys AI-powered data intelligence start-up Hyperplane
Nubank plans to harness Hyperplane’s AI expertise to enhance its core machine learning capabilities.
Video: Fintech insights – reimagining the customer experience
Steven Ramirez, CEO at Beyond The Arc, discusses the future of customer experience in financial services.
What the FinTech? | S.5 Episode 10 | Generative AI and cloud core modernisation
In this podcast episode, we chat with Zac Maufe, Head of Regulated Industries at Google Cloud.
PayPal hires Srini Venkatesan as new CTO
Venkatesan succeeds Archie Deskus, who has served as CTO for the past eight months.
Verituity secures $18.8m round led by Forgepoint Capital and Sandbox Industries
Sandbox Industries’ chief Chris Zock is to join Verituity’s board of directors.
Combatting fraud – insights from industry experts
How to stay ahead of the curve in the ever-evolving landscape of fraud prevention.
We are all living on borrowed time
Together, we can create meaningful change through collective action that can last generations.
The future of fraud detection: how AI revolutionizes your bottom line
Building a proactive fraud shield with AI for unstoppable banking.
The AI Summit: Real world AI
Use cases, pathways and challenges to implementation, and the evolving regulatory frameworks.
What would the Jetsons do?
We already live in the Future. It is here. It is the Present. It is fully formed and at times rather wonderful.
NatWest prepares to introduce GenAI-powered virtual assistant Cora+ in collaboration with IBM
NatWest will introduce the service through a “12 week pilot to address learnings and updates”.
Interview: Agata Strzelecka, VeloBank – a modern bank with fintech DNA
Agata Strzelecka shares first-hand experience and lessons learnt from transforming a bank and attracting investors.
State of play: Money20/20 Europe 2024
Money20/20 Europe was a glimpse into the progress that the fintech industry continues to make.
Money20/20 Europe brings tokenisation, AI and digital transformation into focus
Day one’s proceedings took a specific focus on the topics of AI, tokenisation and digital modernisation journeys.
Data unleashed – five ways COOs can equip their businesses to win the data race
As advances in AI open a new frontier for the investment industry, explore how COOs can capitalise on the advantages technology has to offer.
US paytech start-up Forward lands $16m seed round
Forward aims to collaborate with SaaS firms to increase their revenue by “two to three times”.
May 2024: Top five AI stories of the month
FinTech Futures takes a look back at five of the top AI stories from May.
AI as the new frontier: empowering credit unions for future growth
How can credit unions leverage AI to help boost deposits and improve loan growth?
May 2024: Top five fintech partnership stories of the month
FinTech Futures takes a look back at five of the top fintech partnership stories of the month.
Protecting against deepfakes in the era of LLMs
FinTech Futures speaks with FinVolution about how the financial sector can tackle the threat of deepfakes.
FinovateSpring 2024: GenAI and future fraud strategies in focus on day one
Industry leaders convened in San Francisco on Tuesday to kick off FinovateSpring 2024.
Demystify Podcast: The growth of fintech in the UAE – Dubai Fintech Summit special
Dave and Dharm speak with four financial services leaders at this year’s Dubai Fintech Summit.
Cartoon: Working at the edge
Can nature be a guide on how to improve intelligence at the edge of computing networks?
Financial admin platform Osome secures $17m in mix of debt and equity funding
The Singapore-based start-up plans to utilise AI to further develop its product offerings.
AYA Bank taps SmartStream for transaction lifecycle management solution
The bank has selected SmartStream’s TLM Reconciliations Premium Digital Payments Control solution.
Former Thomson Reuters exec David Larson named Feedzai’s new CFO
Larson previously spent over eight years at Canadian multinational information corporation Thomson Reuters.
State of play: the future of credit
Alternative data sources will be key to ensuring the future of credit is affordable, inclusive, and accessible.
Traydstream hires Microsoft’s Stephan Hufnagl as new CTO
Hufnagl boasts over 20 years of cloud architecture, business strategy and engineering experience.
Indian fintech Aurionpro bolsters AI portfolio with $16.5m takeover of Arya.ai
Arya.ai offers a cloud-based PaaS that enables enterprises to develop their own AI solutions.
UK regtech ComplyAdvantage snaps up Golden to strengthen financial crime intelligence offering
The deal will also see VC firm Andreessen Horowitz become a shareholder in ComplyAdvantage.
Cartoon: Spring fever
The market appears to be investing in anything that moves with the letters “AI” in it.
FinTech Founders Video: how to forge successful fintech partnerships
Three fintech founders discuss the best ways to assess a potential partner in financial services.
Google Cloud to develop quantitative research and genAI capabilities for three new industry takers
The deals were revealed during the Google Cloud Next event in Las Vegas this week.
