SAP invests €2bn for French fintech innovation ASAP
Its areas of interest include cloud, machine learning, blockchain, IoT and SaaS.
Artificial Intelligence/AI
Fintech funding round-up: 23 January 2018
From London to Asia. Stars Anorak Technologies, Funding Societies and Mekar.
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?
Salesforce, IBM and Google relationship status: it’s complicated
It’s like cloud provider kindergarten! Everybody’s special!
Exactpro completes management buyout from London Stock Exchange
They’re still friends – LSE will remain a customer of Exactpro.
Citi plays Cupid for university talent search
Shoot that fintech arrow to my heart!
IBM hits growth for first time in 23 quarters
Did it in style – exceeding analyst revenue expectations by almost $500 million.
UK and France governments strike accord for fintech innovation
Tech sectors plan to get closer together with a digital conference to promote deeper integration.
Featurespace now features new CFO
Starting off the new year with a new chief financial officer – Jonathan Crossfield.
Amazon taps 20 locations as finalists for second HQ
It’s the hottest competition since “The Bachelor”.
IBM and Cargills Bank bring cognitive security thrills to Sri Lanka
Using IBM QRadar, a security intelligence platform, along with QRadar Advisor with Watson.
Top six trends in payments
What trends will be impacting the payments industry this year?
Fintech funding round-up: 18 January 2018
Featuring BB&T Corporation, Solgari and Tinkoff Bank.
NAB asks Alexa for hands-free banking
Users can now perform tasks such as requesting their account balance or getting details on their latest deposits.
Workday acquires machine learning start-up SkipFlag
SkipFlag uses deep learning to help enterprises make sense of data they collect each day.
InsurTech Rising Live: Digital Week
Featuring industry leaders discussing the issues impacting insurtechs today.
Microsoft and Alibaba officially have AI that’s smarter than humans
They beat humans using the Stanford Question Answering Dataset – aka SQuAD.
AI firm Savedroid launches ICO
German AI savings technology firm looks to raise capital – both crypto and conventional.
Widiba homes in on Artificial Solutions for VR banking launch
Enter a virtual branch to carry out transactions or talk to an advisor.
Is the insurance industry ready for autonomous cars?
Driverless cars; opportunity for the insurance sector or a challenge that could lead to its downfall?
Fintech Lab launches insurtech accelerator in Moscow
Nine start-ups primed for action.
FireEye to acquire big data start-up X15 Software for $20m
Plans to integrate X15 Software’s platform into its own security tools.
EU outlines €1bn supercomputer plan
A step forward in ambitions to be competitive and independent in the global data economy.
IBM proudly poses at patent peak
Its inventors received a record number of patents in 2017 – marking its 25th consecutive year of US leadership.
TD Bank deeper in AI mix with purchase of Layer 6
Ta-da! Making its intentions clear with acquisition of Toronto-based artificial intelligence (AI) company.
AI is on!
Implementation of first uses cases around real-time contextual added-value banking notifications and offers to make their appearance in 2018.
Interview: Pranshu Maheshwari, SimpleMoney – on track for investment tracking
SimpleMoney’s co-founder explains the problem he’s out to solve and why he isn’t in the robo-advisory game.
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.
“Don’t Fear the InsurTech Start-ups, Fear Other Incumbents”
In 2027, how will the insurance industry have changed?
MIT warns of ransomware in the cloud and weaponised AI
How secure will the cloud be in the coming 12 months?
Jordan Ahli Bank launches chatbot service, ahli bot
The first bank in Jordan to introduce a chatbot service. It is currently in beta version.
EBL launches Bangladesh’s first AI-based banking chatbot
EBL Digital Interactive Agent will communicate with customers via Facebook Messenger.
Top ten fintech opinion pieces in 2017
They thought for you.
A look back at 2017 and ringing in a new year for the payments industry
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.
Virtual branching: how disruptive innovations are changing financial services
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.
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?
SBDA Group closes Series A investment round
Banking personalisation firm SBDA landed investment from FinSight Ventures and Digital Space Ventures.
Schroders first in Singapore to launch asset manager chatbot
Beta version now online operating through Facebook Messenger.
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.
