Tagged: ai

August 23, 2024 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, has acquired Laybuy’s assets in New Zealand, the birthplace of the payments provider, and plans to relaunch the service in the coming weeks. Laybuy, which ceased operations in June, is “set to make a reenergized return… Read More

August 22, 2024 @ 9:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Elite, a provider of financial management and business operations solutions to the world’s most successful law firms, and Brightflag, the AI-powered e-billing and matter management platform for in-house legal teams, have launched a new integration which seamlessly connects two of the legal industry’s legal invoicing… Read More

August 22, 2024 @ 4:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Skyfire Systems, Incorporated announced the launch of the payment network built to enable fully autonomous transactions across AI Agents, LLM’s, data platforms, service providers, and other goods and services. Skyfire creates an essential operating layer, “delivering critical missing components for AI commerce, including secure wallet… Read More

August 21, 2024 @ 4:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Treasury Prime, an embedded banking software company, announced the addition of Kobalt Labs, an AI-powered copilot for risk and compliance teams, to the Treasury Prime Partner Marketplace. Banks in Treasury Prime’s network now have “the option to leverage Kobalt Labs to better manage their third… Read More

August 19, 2024 @ 11:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, has launched two new products tapping into retail banks’ core business: everyday spending and saving. Launched in 12 countries across Europe and the US, this marks “a significant step forward in Klarna’s mission to disrupt retail… Read More

August 18, 2024 @ 4:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SigFig, a digital wealth management solutions and technology provider for financial institutions and their advisors, announced new capabilities, including AI-powered functions, to its financial advisor collaboration platform, Engage. Powering collaborative digital experiences for “the most essential aspects of financial advisor and client relationships, Engage is… Read More

August 18, 2024 @ 7:11 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fears of a bursting AI bubble are overblown, deVere Group founder and CEO Nigel Green believes. Speculation grew following last week’s market turbulence, but Green feels that is premature. “Fear mongers are pointing to the sharp declines in the stock prices of leading AI companies… Read More

August 16, 2024 @ 3:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kaspersky has detected an online fraud campaign aimed at stealing cryptocurrency and sensitive information by exploiting popular topics such as web3, crypto, AI, online gaming, and beyond. Targeting individuals worldwide, the campaign is believed to “be orchestrated by Russian-speaking cybercriminals and spreads info-stealing and clipper… Read More

August 16, 2024 @ 6:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Carbon emissions from AI and crypto are surging and tax policy can help, according to an update shared by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Crypto mining and data centers now account “for 2 percent of global electricity use and nearly 1 percent of global emissions,… Read More

August 15, 2024 @ 4:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance Labs, the incubation arm of Binance, has invested in Sahara AI, a decentralized AI blockchain platform built for open and equitable AI. Sahara AI is building a collaborative AI economy “that prioritizes the sovereignty and provenance of AI, ensuring security, equity, and accessibility for… Read More

August 15, 2024 @ 9:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Paddle, the payments infrastructure provider, has opened applications for its third AI Launchpad, offering 75 ambitious AI founders the chance to participate in a 6-week program to help them build, launch and scale their AI-powered business ideas. The potential for AI startups is huge, “with… Read More

August 12, 2024 @ 7:50 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

A report from corporate card and accounts payable platform Ramp shows that companies are willing to invest in AI, especially when it addresses specific issues. While spending remained strong in Q2, some headwinds are forming. Small SMEs raised their spending by 9.4%, with large SMEs… Read More

August 11, 2024 @ 4:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Automotive lending has been quickly transformed by artificial intelligence (AI) with the promise of faster, more accurate and more cost-effective credit decisions and approval processes. Auto dealers are not exactly ready to embrace the new technology. According to the J.D. Power 2024 U.S. Dealer Financing… Read More

August 9, 2024 @ 5:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NICE Actimize, a NICE (NASDAQ: NICE) business, announced the introduction of SURVEIL-X Behavior, the newest AI-powered solution in its market-leading SURVEIL-X Holistic Employee Conduct Surveillance suite. In addition to its surveillance coverage “for markets, communications, sales practices & suitability, and conflicts of interest, NICE Actimize’s… Read More

August 8, 2024 @ 5:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) announced its partnership with Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, to launch TruIQTM Data Enrichment on Snowflake Marketplace. TruIQ Data Enrichment’s availability on Snowflake Marketplace will “provide joint customers with unlimited, on-demand access to pseudonymized TransUnion credit data in the Snowflake AI… Read More

August 5, 2024 @ 10:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CBInsights has released an update focused on and entitled, the Future of the workforce: How AI agents will transform enterprise workflows. CBInsights dive into what agents are, their limitations, key companies, and “implications for the future of work.” As noted in the research report from… Read More

August 4, 2024 @ 9:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CBInsights notes in a new report that AI funding has reached $23.2B in Q2’24 — the highest quarterly level on record. CBInsights pointed out that global AI funding “climbed once again in Q2’24, jumping 59% QoQ to hit $23.2B — the highest quarterly level on… Read More

August 1, 2024 @ 8:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and SandboxAQ are expanding their partnership to address the critical need for enterprise data encryption that can defend against current data breaches, as well as future AI and quantum threats. Together, Accenture and SandboxAQ are “helping organizations secure sensitive data and strengthen… Read More

July 31, 2024 @ 9:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ThetaRay, an AI-powered financial crime detection firm, has announced the acquisition of European screening company, Screena. The acquisition is being described as demonstrating ThetaRay’s continuous investment “in proprietary technology and reaffirms its mission of enabling banks, fintechs, and regulators to detect financial crime with state-of-the-art… Read More

July 31, 2024 @ 5:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Backbase, the global enabler of Engagement Banking, announces the establishment of its first global Center of Excellence (COE) focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The COE will serve as the development hub “for Backbase’s AI banking solutions worldwide and will… Read More