Artificial intelligence

News/ai

CaixaBank applies AI to employee training

Spain's CaixaBank has started using artificial intelligence in its online employee training platform to help tailor learning to individual staffers.

21 January 2020

News/Artificial intelligence

KBC launches bot-based investment account

Belgium's KBC has launched an online investment account run entirely by a bot-based assistant dubbed Matti.

21 January 2020

News/ai

AI specialist FeedStock raises £2.5m

FeedStock, a UK startup using AI to help financial services firms meet compliance requirements and hit commercial goals, has raised £2.5 million in a funding round led by Praetura Ventures.

20 January 2020

News/cloud

Managing data beyond the tipping point of cloud

While 52% of asset management firms use the cloud for data management today, a further 28% plan to migrate data management to the cloud in the next 18 months.

20 January 2020

News/Artificial intelligence

Ant Financial preps huge fintech conference

China's Ant Financial is flexing its muscles by organising a massive fintech conference in Shanghai this April.

15 January 2020

News/ai

Traders optimistic about arrival of digital assets and AI

Traders operating on the Swiss Stock Exchange believe that the maturing of AI and digital assets is set to reshape the capital markets, with demand from clients for crypto investing growing.

15 January 2020

News/Artificial intelligence

Ping An Technology and Intel form innovation lab

Ping An Technology and Intel are building an innovation lab in Shenzhen to experiment in areas such as cloud, AI, security and storage.

15 January 2020

News/regulation

EBA identifies trust challenges from growing use of Big Data and AI in finance

The European Banking Authority has identified a set of key trust challenges facing financial institutions and regulatory bodies from the growing use of Big Data and advanced analytics, including machine learning, across the financial services industry.

14 January 2020

News/cloud

ML in the cloud enhances the financial data journey

While there are troves of financial data that have the potential to drive and inform critical business decisions, data remains siloed due to challenges associated with managing multiple data sources and aging infrastructure. Many financial institutions (FIs) face challenges – from limited storage and compute capacity to resource-intensive network deployments – that impede the ability to generate data-led insights powered by analytics.

13 January 2020

News/cloud

Cloud as the enabler of AI’s competitive advantage

Data is just the beginning. Financial institutions (FIs) are now hyper-focused on surfacing meaningful, timely, and actionable insights from proprietary and third-party data. Technologies such as the cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) are forming new partnerships between humans and machines.

13 January 2020

News/cloud

Natural language processing is the next step to automation

78% of institutional investors agree that technology has made financial markets ‘better and more efficient.’ This figure is staggering when compared to the 20% of participants who feel that technology has ‘made financial markets overly complicated.’ But where does the cloud fit in?

13 January 2020

Research/Artificial intelligence

Smarter Humans. Smarter Machines.

13 January 2020 89 downloads

Finextra TV/regulation

Shifting cultures as a result of technology transformation

Rhys Sharp, Solution Director, Solution Director, Rackspace, speaks about technology transformation, how banks are adapting both established and challenger, challenges along the way, how banks can keep the right balance between regulation, security and innovation and how this changing the culture within organisations.

08 January 2020

News/ai

HighRadius raises $125m

HighRadius, a startup specialising in AI-powered order-to-cash and treasury management software, has joined the unicorn club thanks to a $125 million Series B round led by Iconiq Capital and joined by Citi Ventures and Susquehanna Growth Equity.

07 January 2020

News/Artificial intelligence

ING spins out bond analytics fintech Katana

ING is to spin out bond analytics platform Katana, the latest graduate from the Dutch bank's fintech incubation labs.

07 January 2020

Research/Artificial intelligence

AI and Information Paving the Path to Personalisation

07 January 2020 464 downloads

News/devops

Citi's investment bank to hire 2500 coders

Citi is the latest Wall Street giant looking to hoover up programming talent, embarking on a recruitment drive that will see it hire 2500 coders and data scientists for its investment bank this year.

06 January 2020