FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 5 August 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Microsoft
Technisys integrates Cyberbank platform with Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services
The integration will give financial institutions the ability to scale and boost digital transformation efforts.
KPMG and Microsoft partner to deliver cloud-based tax technologies
KPMG says its Digital Gateway platform, in collaboration with Microsoft, is “built with the C-suite in mind”.
FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 27 May 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
FinTech Futures: Top five stories of the week – 22 April 2022
Here’s our pick of five of the top news stories from the world of finance and tech this week.
Microsoft teams up with Finastra to offer SME lending through Dynamics 365
Microsoft says the partnership will drive value for SMEs, “the backbone of job creation in the world’s economy”.
Microsoft met with criticism over BNPL plans for Edge
Microsoft has partnered with Zip to offer a BNPL payment option in its Edge browser.
CIBC signs cloud partnership deal with Microsoft
The deal will see CIBC utilise Microsoft Azure as its primary cloud platform.
Morgan Stanley signs cloud partnership deal with Microsoft
Deal forms part of the US bank’s multi-cloud strategy.
SimCorp puts Dimension on the cloud with Microsoft Azure
Investment systems vendor signs public cloud deal with Microsoft.
Standard Chartered signs multi-year cloud deal with Microsoft
The bank is shifting a series of systems to the cloud by 2025.
Finastra and Microsoft extend cloud deal
The new deal is hailed as a “step change” in the pair’s relationship.
Temenos rolls out its Financial Crime Mitigation tool on Microsoft Azure
“The cloud is a big investment for us, as we believe it’s the future.”
EQ Bank completes cloud-based Temenos core banking project
Bank finalises migration to the Microsoft Azure cloud.
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JP Morgan and Microsoft join forces for enterprise blockchain push
Quorum to be made available through Azure Blockchain Service.
TD Bank moves to Microsoft Azure cloud
The bank has also implemented Office 365 for employees.
Databricks keeps building with $250m funding
Now valued at $2.75 billion – and with the continuous support of Microsoft.
RIP Microsoft Wallet
Of our elaborate plans, the end. Of everything that stands, the end.
Top fintech stories this week – 7 December 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Mastercard and Microsoft in digital identity drive
They dream of a “universally-recognised” system.
Toronto receives $1.4bn tech investment in September
The tech ecosystem in Toronto is growing – and fintech is sure to follow.
Microsoft unveils Ethereum proof-of-authority on Azure
Suitable for permissioned networks where all consensus participants are known.
Microsoft and Nationwide invest $12m in SME lender BlueVine
Takes the company’s total funding to $590 million. Ye gods!
Top fintech stories this week – 13 July 2018
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Microsoft acquires Semantic Machines for conversational AI starter
Ambitions to make chatbots sound more human and less like robots.
Microsoft and Alibaba officially have AI that’s smarter than humans
They beat humans using the Stanford Question Answering Dataset – aka SQuAD.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 9 January 2018
Features Cardano Foundation, IOHK, Emurgo, Bitcoin mining, Microsoft and John McAfee.
Cloud market soared to $180bn in revenue in 2017 – study
A 24% year-over-year increase, according to new research by Synergy Research Group.
Microsoft is a “deeply open source company”, says Azure CTO Mark Russinovich
Get used to the idea of Microsoft embracing open source.
Blockchain and Bitcoin round-up: 8 December 2017
The latest features IOTA, Microsoft, Indonesia’s central bank and Australian Securities Exchange.
Microsoft and SAP expand HANA and Azure partnership
Microsoft and SAP are expanding their current cloud partnership to include additional support for SAP software running on the Azure public cloud. The two companies also plan to use each other’s applications internally, reports Enterprise Cloud News (Banking Technology’s sister publication). The expanded partnership coincides with Microsoft’s biggest rival for public cloud – Amazon Web […]
Microsoft looks to secure clouds with Project Cerberus
Microsoft is looking to make cloud infrastructure safer at the hardware level with a new offering called “Project Cerberus,” which is the company’s latest contribution to the Open Compute Project (OCP), reports Enterprise Cloud News (Banking Technology‘s sister publication). Company engineers unveiled Cerberus at Zettastructure, the European digital infrastructure conference, which is taking place this […]
Microsoft growing explosively, but Amazon retains huge cloud lead
Microsoft is the fastest-growing of the four big US cloud service providers, with revenue up 90% year-over-year in the third quarter, writes Enterprise Cloud News (Banking Technology‘s sister publication).
For Amazon and Microsoft, the cloud keeps giving
Someday, the consistent growth in sales for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure will have to stop, writes Enterprise Cloud News (Banking Technology’s sister publication). “Someday” isn’t today.
What adds up to $95 billion? Q3 for Google, Microsoft and Amazon
$43.7 billion for Amazon, $27.7 billion for Google and $24.5 billion for Microsoft. And it hasn’t even hit the Christmas sales period yet.
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 […]
Tech dominates Interbrand global rankings
Interbrand has released its rankings of the most valuable brands in the world, and the technology sector has a lot to boast about, occupying six of the top ten spots, reports Telecoms.com (Banking Technology’s sister publication). Every now and then we just need a reminder of how important technology is for today’s society. In previous […]
AI is starting to get seriously smart, perhaps worryingly so
We’ve seen a couple of artificial intelligence (AI) shout-outs this week with Microsoft targeting telcos’ worryingly poor customer service record and European scientists potentially creating the building blocks for Skynet, reports Telecoms.com (Banking Technology’s sister publication). Starting in the Microsoft offices, the team has paired up with Amdocs to provide an intelligent solution to one […]
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