Lending platform JUMO gets $12.5m funding
Takes total raised in excess of $103 million.
Artificial Intelligence/AI
Line acquires GrayHash for fintech security
Looking to improve its messenger, AI, blockchain and digital asset exchange.
Morgan Stanley says yes to Yext for finance advice
Bank has digital brain wave for its financial advisors.
US challenger bank Envel emerges for auto-pilot action
Start-up goes ethical and offers “banking on autopilot”.
White paper: Segments of one – customer insights in digital banking
Easy-to-implement use cases for personalised marketing and sales.
Data privacy provider Privitar picks up investment from Citi
UK firm plans to expand its US teams on the East Coast.
Next Caller has Interactions for phone-based threat assessment
Intelligent virtual assistance firm Interactions seeks better fraud protection.
Money Dashboard brings ML magic to GoCompare
Scottish firm clearly not riled by GoCompare’s awful adverts.
Feedzai fighting financial crime with Risk Ledger
“Our goal has always been to make it harder and harder for fraudsters to hide.”
How technology and AI are set to transform compliance
A three-level structure: humans at the top, AI at the bottom, an automated decision support system in the middle.
White paper: Adaptive Authentication – Superior User Experience and Growth through Intelligent Security
White paper on the state of authentication and the evolving threat landscape.
Job losses in Lithuania as Barclays hands ops centre to HCL
End of an era and not all employees will get a job at the Indian firm.
US regulators rouse banks to AML innovation
Banks get love and tech support to strengthen the financial system.
Trading firm Imperative Execution kills it with $9m funding
Follows a $5m investment round last year.
Axyon AI bags €1.3m from European banks
UniCredit and ING Ventures are keen investors and partners.
US tech watch: Gradifi, Numerated, Jibo, Corvus, Botkeeper
Boston bosses this one. A wave of cash for finance and insurance tech start-ups, and a robotic assistant goes dark.
Becoming a digital bank
Digital transformation must be a far-reaching and whole-hearted undertaking.
Bambu and OUTvest win FinovateAfrica’s Best of Show awards
The votes have been cast and tallied!
Cathay Bank picks QuantaVerse to combat crime
Sino-American bank selects a range of AI-based anti-financial crime solutions.
UK savings app Chip notches up £4m funding
Firm says it got a record-breaking number of investors in the UK.
BBVA picks penguin-powered AI advisor with $9m funding
Bank’s Propel Venture Partners leads Series A in Charlie chatbot.
Beijing plots to make fintech grand thing
The capital reveals its tech development plan up to 2022.
Technology for the new world
Business as usual is no longer an option. You can bank on that.
New legislation puts motor insurers in the driver’s seat of autonomous cars
The next few years will be transformative for the motor insurance industry.
Data mining
If data really is the new oil, where is the pipeline flowing?
The emerging landscape of fintech regulation
Just passing laws will not work to control fintech. Regulators will have to be much more pro-active.
Automation Anywhere going somewhere with $300m funding from SoftBank
RPA firm gets support from SoftBank Vision Fund.
Bain Capital Ventures nets $1bn funding for new round of tech bets
Its current portfolio includes companies focused on infrastructure software, security, commerce and fintech.
UK’s Nationwide takes stake in financial manager Moneyhub
Building society’s investment gives it a minority stake.
Insurtech Anorak raises $6.5m in funding
Series A round led by Kamet Ventures.
Southeast Asian consumer finance firm Akulaku gets $70m funding
Round includes support from Sequoia India and BlueSky Venture Capital.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, is Singapore’s AI fairest of them all?
Regulator wants fairness, ethics, accountability and transparency.
Bangladeshi lendtech ShopUp receives $1.62m investment
Automating online credit assessment for MSMEs.
Standard Chartered teams with Instabase for clever KYC
As the fintech comes out of the bank’s eXellerator.
Quantexa goes on data adventure with Accenture
The investment comes with a tech collaboration.
IBM shows off three new bank clients
Bank Zero, Caixa and KB Kookmin are all up for IBM Z or LinuxONE.
CredoLab and GoBear unveil credit solution for underbanked
Collaboration between alternative credit scoring specialist and personal finance comparison site.
A two-speed journey: the impact AI and robotics will have on financial markets
Emerging technologies have the potential to revolutionise existing processes.
N26 and Rasa to launch extra languages and features for its chatbot
N26’s chatbot is already live in English in both Facebook and Salesforce.
Experian launches Experian Credit 3D for insightful credit scoring
Offering a long-term view of a customer’s finances.
