Artificial intelligence

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

News/retail

Banking predictions for 2020 – more competition, more collaboration and new sources of revenue

As 2019 draws to a close, financial services commentators and vendors have made their customary end-of-year predictions for the 12 months ahead, with increased competition through supercharged PSD2 the principal driving force.

23 December 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

Finextra's year in review

With 2019 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most popular news items, videos and community engagement activities over the course of the past year.

23 December 2019

Finextra TV/sustainable

More and more banks joining the ESG agenda

Jonathan Hughes, Co-Founder, Pollinate International, speaks at Sustainable Finance. Live about how Pollinate are working with banks to inform them and their customers about better buying decisions to help the environment, changing consumer views about their carbon footprint, the supply chain & impact of purchasing data and whether enough banks have enough of an appetite for Sustainable Finance.

18 December 2019

Finextra TV/sustainable

Value chain vs. supply chain: Redesigning the economy

Anna Poberezhna, Founder, CEO, Smart4tech, speaks at Sustainable Finance. Live about Green Finance through redefining the value of water through digitisation and integrated water resource management and redesigning processes & products through the lens of system thinking & tech to make the world a better place. She speaks about the Circular Economy and the efforts to build optimisation and innovations to re-design the way the economy works by addressing value chain versus supply chain.

18 December 2019

News/Artificial intelligence

Saxo Bank targets Chinese market through tech joint venture

Saxo Bank has formed a 50/50 joint venture with Chinese automotive group Geely Holdings to provide a suite of financial technology services to banks and fintechs in China.

17 December 2019

Finextra TV/sustainable

Sustainable Finance.Live: How best to design the report and reporting process

Richard Conway, CEO, Elastacloud, speaks at Sustainable Finance. Live about energy sustainability, whether the challenges we face with understanding data necessary for sustainable products and solutions can be overcome, the methodologies organisations need to explore around data going forward, the role of AI and how best to design the report and reporting process.

16 December 2019

Finextra TV/sustainable

Understanding the Supply Chain with OceanMind

Together at Sustainable Finance.Live, Nick Wise, CEO, OceanMind & Richard Peers, Founder of Responsible Risk look to uncover solutions and get commercial banks to become more engaged in sustainable projects. Nick lends the case study of using the empowerment of fisheries authorities and seafood buyers to explain the emergence of supply chain data and the capability of and impact that smaller firms can deliver.

16 December 2019

Finextra TV/sustainable

Sustainable Finance.Live: Designing a green commercial bond product

Adrian Sargent, Treasury Operating Officer, Virgin Money, speaks to Richard Peers, Founder, Responsible Risk about the good of Green Bonds and their increase in demand, some of the cost constraints of issuing bonds and the complexities that come with identifying green assets, the importance of being able to extract data necessary for organisations to confidently invest and how we need to simplify the process going forward.

13 December 2019