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Santander taps IBM to develop customer service apps for employee iPhones

Santander is to equip 11,000 employess with iPhones running IBM MobileFirst for iOS apps, using real-time enterprise data to improve customer engagement.

27 February 2017

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IBM and Visa join forces to turn billions of connected devices into points of sale

IBM has struck a deal with Visa which will give all of Big Blue's Watson IoT platform customers access to the card giant's payment services, potentially turning billions of cars, fridges, sneakers and other connected devices into points of sale.

16 February 2017

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Yes Bank uses blockchain to help client with vendor financing

India's Yes Bank has enlisted the help of IBM for a blockchain project that digitises vendor financing for client Bajaj Electricals.

04 January 2017

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Watson data scientist talks up 'augmented intelligence' for financial services

True artificial intelligence may still be some years off but the financial services industry is already beginning to reap the benefits of augmented intelligence, says a data scientist working on IBM's Watson.

08 December 2016

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Standard Chartered and IBM back Byte Academy's Singapore fintech school

Standard Chartered Bank, IBM, Insead, Thomson Reuters and Microsoft are backing a fintech school at New York-based Byte Academy's first international venture, in Singapore.

07 November 2016

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Pay by MasterCard direct from your dashboard

MasterCard is to come embedded as a payment option in an intelligent dashboard developed by IBM Watson for General Motors.

26 October 2016

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IBM to acquire Promontory; create AI-driven compliance subsidiary

IBM is to acquire risk management and regulatory compliance consulting firm Promontory Capital and create a new subsidiary, Watson Financial Services, in which it will use artificial intelligence technology to keep pace with the rapidly changing financial reporting landscape.

29 September 2016

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Banks ready for real-world blockchain

Distributed ledger technology is set to move out of the test environment and into the wild next year, with nearly two thirds of banks expecting to be in production with full-scale, commercial blockchain projects by 2019, according to research from IBM.

29 September 2016

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IBM and China UnionPay apply the blockchain to loyalty bonus point exchange

IBM and China UnioPpay have demonstrated a blockchain prototype for loyalty bonus points exchange among multiple banks.

23 September 2016

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The Clearing House to use IBM Power backbone for real-time payments

The Clearing House is to use an IBM Power8-based system infrastructure running Linux and AIX operating systems as the hosting platform for its forthcoming move to real-time payments.

21 September 2016

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BTMU and IBM use blockchain for contract management

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU) and IBM are teaming up to use blockchain technologies for the design, management and execution of contracts among business partners.

16 September 2016

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ABN Amro joins hyperledger hackathon

ABN Amro, IBM, Holland FinTech and Linux Foundation are to run the first-ever Hyperledger hackathon, inviting coders to develop new financial applications capable of running on distributed ledgers.

12 September 2016

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