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Company announcement/wholesale

TNS ontroduces Microsoft Azure connectivity

Financial markets participants can now increase the security of their cloud infrastructure thanks to Transaction Network Services (TNS) enhancing its Secure Cloud Connect solution with connectivity to Microsoft Azure.

05 February 2019

Company announcement/ai

ZestFinance ports AI credit tool to Microsoft Cloud

Today, ZestFinance announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to deploy Zest's machine learning (ML) software tools directly on Microsoft Azure and Machine Learning Server platforms to deliver the first fully explainable artificial intelligence (AI) solution for highly regulated industries, starting with the financial sector.

28 January 2019

News

Microsoft Wallet retires

Bowing to the inevitable, Microsoft is killing off its contactless payments app for Windows phones.

23 January 2019

Company announcement/regulation

Microsoft joins RegTech Association

The RegTech Association (RTA) today announced Microsoft has joined its ranks, plus Bank of Queensland Limited (BOQ)’s Chief Risk Officer, Peter Deans is joining the board.

17 December 2018

News/security

Mastercard and Microsoft forge digital identity partnership

Mastercard and Microsoft are joining forces to tackle the messy business of digital identity verification, vowing to kill off passwords and give people a secure, instant way to verify themselves online with whomever they want, whenever they want.

03 December 2018

Finextra TV

Evolving banking needs around cloud

Andrew Reeves, MD for Cloud, Temenos, Janet Lewis, Vice President, Global Financial Services at Microsoft, speak at Sibos 2018 in Sydney about how banks needs have evolved, why banks are embracing the cloud now, how cloud technology has enabled new business models for banking and what new technology trends are prevailing in banking today.

13 November 2018

Company announcement

Refinitiv puts quantitative analytics platform QA Direct in the cloud with Microsoft Azure

Building on its commitment towards consumption of its financial data in the Cloud, Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, has launched its quantitative analytics platform QA Direct in the Cloud through Microsoft Azure.

01 November 2018

News/security

NAB and Microsoft test facial recognition for ATM withdrawals

National Australia Bank has teamed up with Microsoft on a proof-of-concept that taps AI to let customers make ATM withdrawals using facial recognition and a PIN.

24 October 2018

News/Sibos

Bian unveils free API market for banks

Banking not-for-profit Bian has launched a free online market, containing APIs developed by firms including IBM, Microsoft, Citi and PNC.

23 October 2018

News/Sibos

Swift tests payment flows over Microsoft Azure

Swift is testing whether its messaging infrastructure can be hosted on Microsoft Azure to enable cloud-native payments.

22 October 2018

News

Microsoft brings market data to the masses

Market moving news and financial data from Refinitiv, formerly the financial and risk business of Thomson Reuters, is to be embedded into a suite of Microsoft services, including Excel, MSN Money and Bing.

16 October 2018

Company announcement/payments

Microsoft to make strategic investment in Grab

Microsoft Corp. and Grab, the leading on-demand transportation, mobile payments and online-to-offline services platform in Southeast Asia, announced a strategic partnership that will transform the delivery of digital services and mobility in the region by leveraging Microsoft’s world-class expertise in machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

09 October 2018