Artificial Intelligence

AI Firm Prewave Raises $67 Million in Series B Funding

AI firm Prewave has raised $67 million in a Series B funding round. The funding was led by Hedosophia, with participation from existing investors Creandum, Ventech, Kompas, Speedinvest, and Working Capital Fund. The company said the money will be used to enable its next phase… Read More

UK’s PensionBee Research: Shareholders of Tech Giants Fail to Address Pension Savers’ Concerns About AI

Despite mounting concerns from pension savers, shareholders of three of the biggest US tech companies that form a significant portion of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ have dismissed calls to address the risks associated with Artificial Intelligence (AI) developments. This, according to an update from UK’s PensionBee…. Read More

Neo and Phoenix to Support AI-enhanced Blockchain Adoption

As technologies currently capturing the world’s attention, there are significant synergies to explore between blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI). In their efforts to develop and build the ecosystem for our EVM-compatible sidechain Neo X, the Neo team is announcing a new partnership with Phoenix, a… Read More

Digital Assets Could Rival and Redefine Traditional Asset Classes – Research Study

ARK Invest says it aims to deliver long-term capital appreciation by investing in the leaders, enablers, and beneficiaries of disruptive innovation. ARK has shared a detailed report that explores the potential impact of disruptive innovations, including AI and decentralized virtual currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum…. Read More

GenAI Adoption: Trustwise to Address Generative AI Safety and Efficiency

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Trustwise, an enabler of generative AI application performance and risk management, announced its official launch, the release of its Optimize:ai product, and $4 million in seed financing. Led by Hitachi Ventures with participation from Firestreak Ventures and Grit Ventures, this investment round will “enable the… Read More

Verituity Secures $18.8M to Enhance B2B, B2C Verified Payout Platform

Verituity, a provider of intelligent, verified payouts solutions, announced the close of an $18.8 million funding round led by Sandbox Industries and Forgepoint Capital with the participation of Ardent Venture Partners and MTech Capital. Chris Zock, Managing Partner and Co-CEO of Sandbox Industries, will join… Read More

nCino Introduces Banking Advisor, a GenAI Solution to Support Efficiencies at Financial Institutions

nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO), a firm focused on cloud banking for the global financial services industry, made generally available its new artificial intelligence (AI) solution, Banking Advisor. nCino’s Banking Advisor is said to be “a banker-focused, conversational co-pilot tool that provides financial institutions a modern… Read More

Brankas and Global Finteq to Launch Lending as a Service Platforms in the Philippines

Brankas and Global Finteq announced a partnership to launch one of the first Lending-as-a-Service (LaaS) platforms in the Philippines. Established banks, rural banks, and even non-traditional financial institutions are “now able to lend at scale as existing loan products can now exist outside of the… Read More

Mymanu, an AI-powered Translation-Embedded Clik Pro Earbuds Provider, Secures £270K via Crowdcube

Mymanu, an AI-powered, “patent-pending” translation-embedded Clik Pro earbuds provider seeks to enhance cross-cultural communication and have raised £270,489 from 53 investors (at the time of writing) via its crowdfunding campaign carried out via Crowdcube. As explained by its developers, with Mymanu there are “no smartphone… Read More

Engagement Banking Fintech Backbase Strengthens AI Capabilities with New Appointment

Backbase, the creator of the Engagement Banking Platform announces the appointment of Chris Shayan as the new Head of Artificial Intelligence. This strategic move is set to significantly “advance Backbase’s AI vision and adoption across its tech offering, reinforcing its commitment to re-architecting banking around… Read More

As Fraud Rises, More Executives Paying Attention: Veriff

Most U.S. businesses are seeing an increase in fraud, and key decision-makers see the need for vigilance. Those are among the findings of Veriff’s U.S. Fraud Industry Pulse Survey for 2024. Almost 87% of companies saw an increase in online fraud in 2023, while 78%… Read More

Growing Consensus Among Portfolio Managers and Central Bankers that Interest Rates Will Stay Higher for Longer – Report

BlackRock (Nasdaq: BLK) recently noted that there’s broad agreement among portfolio managers that a concentrated group of AI winners “will drive returns over a short-term tactical horizon.” BlackRock also mentioned in a recent market update that US stocks reached record highs and bond yields fell… Read More

AI Firm Zencity Raises $40 Million Series C

Zencity has raised $40 million in Series C funding, according to the company. The Artificial Intelligence (AI) firm aims to offer community engagement platforms for local governments. The funding round was led by StepStone Group, with participation from existing investors TLV Partners. In total since inception,… Read More

AI-Powered Financial Research Assistant Brightwave Celebrates $6M Seed Round

Brightwave, an AI-powered financial research assistant, this week announced $6 million in seed funding. The round was led by Decibel Partners, with backing from Point72 Ventures, Moonfire Ventures, and angel investors from OpenAI, Databricks, Uber, and LinkedIn. Founded by engineers with deep knowledge in AI… Read More

LTX, a Broadridge Firm, Introduces GenAI-enhanced List Trading Functionality

Further building on its GenAI focus in the fixed income market, LTX, an AI-powered corporate bond trading platform backed by global Fintech Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BR), announced GenAI-powered List Trading functionality. The new feature allows users “to leverage GPT technology to generate and execute… Read More

Fintech Giant Ant Group Ramps Up Investments in AI, Tech in 2023

Ant Group, the Fintech arm of Chinese tech major Alibaba, ramped up its research and development expenditures to a record 21.2 billion yuan ($3.05 billion) last year, according to its latest sustainability report. This move highlights the company’s increasing focus on technology innovations, including artificial… Read More

Remote Working Fintech Deel Launches AI Tool for Streamlining Operations

Remote working Fintech Deel has introduced a new AI tool for enhancing various tasks. Deel says that this Ai tool helps with double-checking compliance rules. It assists with digging into your global workforce data, and then “making smarter business decisions faster using AI.” As explained… Read More

Binance Labs Invests in Zircuit, a ZK Rollup with AI-enabled Sequencer-Level Security

Binance Labs, the venture capital and incubation arm of Binance, has invested in Zircuit, a zero-knowledge rollup with AI-enabled sequencer-level security. Zircuit is a new Layer 2 (L2) network that “introduces a novel approach to on-chain security.” The network safeguards users “with sequencer-level security and… Read More

Commonwealth Report Shows How AI Can Improve Lives of Less Wealthy

A report from Commonwealth highlights the ways AI can improve the financial lives of people with low to moderate incomes. It is the result of a three-year project supported by JPMorgan Chase. The firms said it is urgent to research and identify the ways in… Read More

Paris based Mistral AI Announces €600M in Series B Funding After Full Year of Operations

Mistral AI is announcing €600M in Series B funding for their first year of operations. Mistral AI said the funding from the investment round will accelerate its roadmap as it continues to bring frontier AI into everyone’s hands. The company is developing various generative AI… Read More

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