Fintech funding round-up: 23 January 2018
From London to Asia. Stars Anorak Technologies, Funding Societies and Mekar.
From London to Asia. Stars Anorak Technologies, Funding Societies and Mekar.
What does 2018 have in store for AI, and how can companies get the most out of it?
It’s like cloud provider kindergarten! Everybody’s special!
They’re still friends – LSE will remain a customer of Exactpro.
Shoot that fintech arrow to my heart!
Did it in style – exceeding analyst revenue expectations by almost $500 million.
Tech sectors plan to get closer together with a digital conference to promote deeper integration.
Starting off the new year with a new chief financial officer – Jonathan Crossfield.
It’s the hottest competition since “The Bachelor”.
Using IBM QRadar, a security intelligence platform, along with QRadar Advisor with Watson.
What trends will be impacting the payments industry this year?
Featuring BB&T Corporation, Solgari and Tinkoff Bank.
Users can now perform tasks such as requesting their account balance or getting details on their latest deposits.
SkipFlag uses deep learning to help enterprises make sense of data they collect each day.
Featuring industry leaders discussing the issues impacting insurtechs today.
They beat humans using the Stanford Question Answering Dataset – aka SQuAD.
German AI savings technology firm looks to raise capital – both crypto and conventional.
Enter a virtual branch to carry out transactions or talk to an advisor.
Driverless cars; opportunity for the insurance sector or a challenge that could lead to its downfall?
Nine start-ups primed for action.
Plans to integrate X15 Software’s platform into its own security tools.
A step forward in ambitions to be competitive and independent in the global data economy.
Its inventors received a record number of patents in 2017 – marking its 25th consecutive year of US leadership.
Ta-da! Making its intentions clear with acquisition of Toronto-based artificial intelligence (AI) company.
Implementation of first uses cases around real-time contextual added-value banking notifications and offers to make their appearance in 2018.
SimpleMoney’s co-founder explains the problem he’s out to solve and why he isn’t in the robo-advisory game.
With wildly conflicting views from experts on the topic, and given that most of us had our first interaction with artificial intelligence whilst watching The Terminator, it isn’t hugely surprising that there is a fear of the rise of the robots.
In 2027, how will the insurance industry have changed?
How secure will the cloud be in the coming 12 months?
The first bank in Jordan to introduce a chatbot service. It is currently in beta version.
EBL Digital Interactive Agent will communicate with customers via Facebook Messenger.
They thought for you.
2017 has been another eventful year for the payments industry. From celebrities like 50 Cent getting involved (more on this later) to businesses neglecting the needs of pretty much every generation bar millennials, there hasn’t been a dull moment.
The ability to blend artificial intelligence (AI) and human interaction should resonate strongly with financial service organisations due to their need to be highly targeted and responsive. When you provide the right service to a consumer at the right time, you can affect their behaviour and give them the push needed to complete the purchase.
2017 ends with the Bitcoin having surpassed the $19,000 mark. Could this perhaps be a taste of our future?
Banking personalisation firm SBDA landed investment from FinSight Ventures and Digital Space Ventures.
Beta version now online operating through Facebook Messenger.
Are you suspicious? This is a key question at the heart of efforts to tackle money laundering: if you work for a bank or other financial institution and have suspicions money laundering is happening, you have a legal duty to speak up.
With concerns that AI will make human employment obsolete, research firm Gartner is looking to counter that narrative.
IBM has revealed the first clients to tap into its IBM Q early-access commercial quantum computing systems.