Top fintech stories this week – 16 September 2016
Catch up on Banking Technology’s top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
Swedbank
Swedbank overhauls commercial lending tech with Misys’ Loan IQ
Misys says Swedbank will use the vendor’s flagship commercial lending system, FusionBanking Loan IQ, as “its full-service agency administration and bank portfolio loan administration platform”.
Swedbank sweet on virtual Nina
Swedbank has gone live with Nuance Nina, a virtual assistant that delivers a human-like, conversational customer service. The system, provided by US-based Nuance Communications, sits on the Swedbank website and the bank’s customers can type their questions to the virtual assistant. Swedbank customer service agents are also using the system to source information for customers. […]
Calypso adds ‘bank-in-a-box’ for capital markets
Treasury and capital markets software specialist Calypso Technology has developed “an industrialised blueprint for reducing complexity and cost in banks”. The Calypso Bank-in-a-Box was developed in collaboration with a group of global banks to consolidate and document their processes and systems in the face of market and regulatory changes.
Swedbank and SIX first to back Bloomberg PolarLake EDM service
Swedbank has become the first live user of Bloomberg PolarLake’s managed service model for enterprise data management.
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