Infographic: unlocking the potential of chatbots
Showing how chatbots can improve user experience in e-commerce.
Machine Learning
The evolution of regtech
The industry has proven itself to be resilient and, as always, it will find a way to adapt.
Three big trends on display at FinovateSpring 2018
FinovateSpring is a little less than a month away.
Goldman Sachs acquires personal finance app Clarity Money
Brings over one million customers to its online lending platform Marcus.
Is voice the next UI?
Theodora Lau discusses what the future might look like for fintech and brands.
GoodData ventures into insurtech
BI firm GoodData has expanded into the insurance industry to simplify claims and underwriting.
Banking marketeers Micronotes hits right notes with $3m funding
US firm focuses on helping banks strengthen customer relationships with PaaS.
Five ways AI is disrupting financial services
Whether you realise it or not, artificial intelligence (AI) is taking over the world.
IoT gets chatty with DeepMind’s cloud text-to-speech
Will allow IoT devices to talk back to you.
Clinc launches self-service AI platform, Spotlight
“Putting the power of world-class conversational design into the hands of banks for the first time.”
Beyond the hype: AI in financial services gets serious
Live from FinovateEurope, Rohit Talwar discusses AI and what the road to “super-intelligence” will look like.
AI and ML curbing financial fraud
A never-ending cycle in the good guy vs bad, but good folk are now gaining ground.
Kapow! Kofax to power Spotcap’s credit assessment algorithm
SME financing provider Spotcap has implemented Kofax’s Kapow robotic process automation (RPA) software.
Will AI replace humans in the insurance industry?
Will you be one of the 800 million individuals ousted by AI?
Digital transformation: is NatWest leading the way or going a step too far?
A bold new move that could shake up the banking industry.
Fintech funding round-up: 27 February 2018
From the US to Brazil – stars Pagaya Investments, C2FO and RecargaPay.
ID Finance brings behavioural biometrics to fraud fight
Barcelona-based firm incorporating biometrics into its AI-based fraud scoring engine.
Bazaarvoice acquires e-commerce app provider AddStructure
Addstructure offers search and discovery apps for e-commerce merchants.
GreenKey teams with IPC to develop AI-based speech recognition solution
Will convert real-time voice into useable data for financial market participants.
Onfido to provide digital ID verification tech to Bitstamp
Onfido has been selected by Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp to provide its ID verification during onboarding.
Clinc tops $4.5m in annual revenue
Conversational AI platform in the pink and hires a chief growth officer.
Onfido to power KYC for Arro Money
Identity verification firm fuels know your customer checks.
Israel Discount Bank gets AI energetic with Personetics
Cognitive Banking Brain powers AI digital financial assistant Didi.
Wipro takes minority stake in Harte Hanks
Wipro is acquiring a $9.9 million minority stake in omnichannel marketing services firm Harte Hanks.
Three steps to improving customer engagement with AI
What does 2018 have in store for AI, and how can companies get the most out of it?
Fintech funding round-up: 18 January 2018
Featuring BB&T Corporation, Solgari and Tinkoff Bank.
Microsoft and Alibaba officially have AI that’s smarter than humans
They beat humans using the Stanford Question Answering Dataset – aka SQuAD.
AI is on!
Implementation of first uses cases around real-time contextual added-value banking notifications and offers to make their appearance in 2018.
Don’t fear the rise of the robots
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.
MIT warns of ransomware in the cloud and weaponised AI
How secure will the cloud be in the coming 12 months?
Fintech trends 2017: blockchain, big data… what’s next?
2017 ends with the Bitcoin having surpassed the $19,000 mark. Could this perhaps be a taste of our future?
Using artificial intelligence to keep criminal funds out of the financial system
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.
AI will create 2.3m jobs by 2020 – report
With concerns that AI will make human employment obsolete, research firm Gartner is looking to counter that narrative.
Rise of the machines will be monitored
The Financial Stability Board has stated in its first report on AI that the risks they pose need monitoring.
Jaywing the Archetype with new AI risk tech launch
Risk and data science firm Jaywing has unveiled Archetype, a new risk technology product that uses artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep neural nets to help lenders generate statistical models.
IBM’s Power9-based AC922 system designed for AI workloads
IBM is ready to start shipping the first commercial server systems built around its recently released Power9 processor. Dubbed the AC922 Power Systems, these servers will ship by the end of December, and are specifically designed for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads.
BondIT closes $14m in funding
Advisory tools tech company BondIT landed $14 million in funding from China-based Fosun Group.
Microsoft and AWS buddy up to democratise machine learning
Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have teamed up to launch an open-source, deep learning library called Gluon which will make machine learning (ML) more accessible to a wider range of developers, reports Telecoms.com (Banking Technology’s sister publication). That will be the key to winning the machine learning race. Not making the most complex and […]
Central banking and fintech: a brave new world?
This is a moment to celebrate 20 years of independence during which the Bank of England has been a stabilising force for the UK economy, inspiring others in the world of central banking.
Pindrop Releases ‘Next-Gen’ Phoneprinting with Machine-Learning Might
Pindrop, an Atlanta-based voice security and authentication firm, says its latest technology release is improving clarity and accuracy and increasing fraud detection by 20 percent.
