Fujitsu bags Lowell contract worth €60m
Credit management tech with AI and robotics added.
Robotics
Customer experience tech Glassbox achieves $25m funding
Investors include Updata Partners, Ibex Investors, CEIIF, and Gefen Capital.
Webinar: Overpromised & Underdelivered – Common Misconceptions About AI for Banking
Tuesday, 9 October. Register now!
UiPath raises $225m for AI and RPA solutions
Series C led by CapitalG and Sequoia Capital.
Sberbank and 500 Startups unleash Russian fintech accelerator
Each start-up will receive seed investment of up to $145,000.
Are banks and bank branch offices headed to the toilet?
Are we seeing banks running out of fresh ideas for how they interact with their customers?
Interview: Ching Ching Tan, Ngee Ann Polytechnic
Ngee Ann Polytechnic and CFTE have launched a new “AI in Finance” course.
Singapore goes AI: training, incentives and regulation
Banks in Singapore take the lead on artificial intelligence (AI) training.
Case study: DBS – the edge
DBS is shaping up to be a fintech innovator. What projects is it working on?
Axe Finance goes live with Skye and signs up BPI and Al Rahji
Good times for Axe Finance.
SoftBank’s humanoid robot Pepper comes to HSBC USA
Robots relish retail banking.
AI is a buzzy word, but how can banks put it to work?
What is AI and how can financial services companies leverage it to their advantage?
AI Summit 2018: robots are a people’s problem
So far, robots still need us.
Deutsche Börse cuts 350 jobs to invest €270m in fintech
Interested in blockchain, big data, cloud computing, robotics and AI.
RPA specialist WorkFusion raises more funding
WorkFusion’s aggregate funding now exceeds $120 million.
Robotic process automation: strategic or impulsive decision?
Using RPA can give a success rate of 99%. Doesn’t it sound exciting?
It’s now and NEVA for NICE’s robotic virtual attendant
NICE work if you can get it. And you can get it – if you buy.
Convergence of RPA and AI: the changing landscape in banking compliance
Robotic process automation and artificial intelligence are transforming the regulatory compliance landscape in banks.
The best RPA tool on the market – Kryon RPA tool
Robotic process automation is essential to create a scalable, cost-efficient infrastructure.
Top fintech stories this week – 20 April 2018
Catch up on FinTech Futures’ top five fintech stories of the week – all in one place!
China Construction Bank opens robot-run branch
No human staff to be seen in this robotic dream.
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.
Kapow! Kofax to power Spotcap’s credit assessment algorithm
SME financing provider Spotcap has implemented Kofax’s Kapow robotic process automation (RPA) software.
Robot Anna the answer at Sberbank’s client contact centre
Anna’s a gleaner for banking queries in Russia.
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.
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.
DBS creates lifestyle branch for tech generation
In a move to attract the tech generation to branches, Singapore’s DBS has launched a “lifestyle space” providing freshly brewed coffee, interactions with humanoid robots and a virtual reality (VR) area for retirement planning.
But what about the human cost of automation?
New research from recruitment agency Robert Half has outlined the jobs which are under threat from automation, but when are we actually going to talk seriously about the dark side of artificial intelligence (AI)?
The Monday mindset: 23 January 2017
Fintech zeitgeist! Welcome to the second in a new series of brief reports. Every Monday, we might look back at last week; look ahead to this week; share a few thoughts (our own or others); or discuss anything that catches our eye. Anything goes, so here goes. Last week I was in Hong Kong, but […]
Sibos 2016 & innovation: crossing the next frontier
There has been a huge amount of hype at this year’s Sibos about financial technology and its role in financial services. Devie Mohan* looks at the technologies that will help financial institutions cross the next frontier of innovation. The world of financial technology has seen a clear and significant shift in the past year – […]
Robotic automation software vendor OpenSpan acquired by Pegasystems
US-based developer of CRM and BPM software, Pegasystems, has acquired OpenSpan. The acquisition, says Pegasystems, “brings robotics, analytics and case management together to enable more productive employees and better customer experience”. OpenSpan, based in the US state of Georgia, specialises in robotics process automation and workforce analytics software. The company says it is currently running […]
Robots to rule as Mizuho Bank modernises with IBM Research platform
Mizuho Bank plans to use a new robotics platform developed by IBM Research-Tokyo for the bank’s customer service-oriented robots. IBM says its researchers are developing new technologies that will “benefit” Mizuho’s Robotics platform by tapping into Watson’s (IBM’s cognitive technology) language and other capabilities to provide a “smoother human/robot interaction and to enable collaboration between […]
