Axyon AI bags €1.3m from European banks
UniCredit and ING Ventures are keen investors and partners.
Artificial Intelligence/AI
US tech watch: Gradifi, Numerated, Jibo, Corvus, Botkeeper
Boston bosses this one. A wave of cash for finance and insurance tech start-ups, and a robotic assistant goes dark.
Becoming a digital bank
Digital transformation must be a far-reaching and whole-hearted undertaking.
Bambu and OUTvest win FinovateAfrica’s Best of Show awards
The votes have been cast and tallied!
Cathay Bank picks QuantaVerse to combat crime
Sino-American bank selects a range of AI-based anti-financial crime solutions.
UK savings app Chip notches up £4m funding
Firm says it got a record-breaking number of investors in the UK.
BBVA picks penguin-powered AI advisor with $9m funding
Bank’s Propel Venture Partners leads Series A in Charlie chatbot.
Beijing plots to make fintech grand thing
The capital reveals its tech development plan up to 2022.
Technology for the new world
Business as usual is no longer an option. You can bank on that.
New legislation puts motor insurers in the driver’s seat of autonomous cars
The next few years will be transformative for the motor insurance industry.
Data mining
If data really is the new oil, where is the pipeline flowing?
The emerging landscape of fintech regulation
Just passing laws will not work to control fintech. Regulators will have to be much more pro-active.
Automation Anywhere going somewhere with $300m funding from SoftBank
RPA firm gets support from SoftBank Vision Fund.
Bain Capital Ventures nets $1bn funding for new round of tech bets
Its current portfolio includes companies focused on infrastructure software, security, commerce and fintech.
UK’s Nationwide takes stake in financial manager Moneyhub
Building society’s investment gives it a minority stake.
Insurtech Anorak raises $6.5m in funding
Series A round led by Kamet Ventures.
Southeast Asian consumer finance firm Akulaku gets $70m funding
Round includes support from Sequoia India and BlueSky Venture Capital.
Mirror, mirror on the wall, is Singapore’s AI fairest of them all?
Regulator wants fairness, ethics, accountability and transparency.
Bangladeshi lendtech ShopUp receives $1.62m investment
Automating online credit assessment for MSMEs.
Standard Chartered teams with Instabase for clever KYC
As the fintech comes out of the bank’s eXellerator.
Quantexa goes on data adventure with Accenture
The investment comes with a tech collaboration.
IBM shows off three new bank clients
Bank Zero, Caixa and KB Kookmin are all up for IBM Z or LinuxONE.
CredoLab and GoBear unveil credit solution for underbanked
Collaboration between alternative credit scoring specialist and personal finance comparison site.
A two-speed journey: the impact AI and robotics will have on financial markets
Emerging technologies have the potential to revolutionise existing processes.
N26 and Rasa to launch extra languages and features for its chatbot
N26’s chatbot is already live in English in both Facebook and Salesforce.
Experian launches Experian Credit 3D for insightful credit scoring
Offering a long-term view of a customer’s finances.
FinovateAsia 2018: Best of Show winners unveiled
Congratulations to the trio of winners!
Quid raises $37.5m in funding round led by Lexis Nexis’ investment arm
Quid’s $37.5m round was led by REV Ventures, bringing the total funding to $108m.
Sibos 2018 video: the future of finserv
Sibos 2018 delegates ponder the future of finserv.
ANZ and Moneythor partner for “financial wellness” venture
ANZ will implement Moneythor’s digital banking toolkit.
Sibos 2018: separating the myth and reality of AI in financial services
Where can the artificial intelligence tech have the greatest impact?
Sibos 2018: partnership strategies to overcome digital disruption
Will digital disruption by dynamic technology natives undermine the legacy business models of traditional banks?
Sibos 2018 interview: Parth Desai, Pelican – succeeding in the AI economy
Artificial intelligence can help banks obtain “customer cognizance”.
Sibos 2018: Can banking embrace AI to better foster trust?
Let’s put our trust in Richard Buckle, founder and CEO of Pyalla Technologies, to answer this.
The appetite for regulatory innovation is growing
What’s going on the regtech space? CEO of hawk:AI shares his views.
Sibos 2018: Need for speed – ML reducing fraud in real-time payments
“ML or decision science is key.”
Fintech Moven unveils global expansion plans
Taking Moven’s digital banking platform to banks worldwide.
Finn.ai raises $11m in Series A funding round
Canada-based developer of AI-powered virtual assistant tech lands $11m.
EastNets shows off new AI-based fraud and money laundering tools
Combating money laundering and payment fraud.
Temenos launches Centre of Excellence for AI
Banking software firm Temenos is ramping up its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
