Tagged: ai

March 20, 2020 @ 11:08 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Challenger bank Tandem recently announced the launch of its new AI system, Ada. According to Tandem, Ada is a self-learning platform that is designed to deliver insights to add value to the baning group customers’ lives. “We have lots of information about our customers, about… Read More

March 19, 2020 @ 7:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Payhawk, a corporate expense management company, has secured €3 million in seed funding. Founded in Bulgaria, Payhawk’s paperless expense management platform aims to improve the  corporate expense management process. The Fintech firm allows companies to add funds to employee cards and automatically process transactions… Read More

March 17, 2020 @ 8:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Eden Amirav, CEO at Become (formerly Lending Express), a leading online platform that helps small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) find and optimize funding solutions, recently shared his views and insights with Crowdfund Insider. Become uses its proprietary technology to assist and nurture businesses throughout the… Read More

March 16, 2020 @ 11:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

India-based NBFC Clix Capital Services Pvt Ltd (Clix), an established online lending platform, has introduced an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered bot, called “Maya,” in order to improve customer experience. Maya will assist the lending service’s clients in acquiring quick loans by first checking their credit scores… Read More

March 16, 2020 @ 4:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Although there are many software tools to manage company expenses, the existing expense processing methods can be quite cumbersome and are also inefficient. Many firms depend on  manual processes to manage their spending. The founders of Expense Robot, a Switzerland-based Fintech firm that uses artificial… Read More

March 16, 2020 @ 9:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Two major Fintech companies, Aion Digital and Qarar, are teaming up in order to accelerate the growth and development of online lending platforms across the Middle East region. According to a press release, the collaboration between the two Fintechs aims to “revolutionize the credit market”… Read More

March 15, 2020 @ 12:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Paris-headquartered Akur8, a company that’s developing an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced insurance pricing platform, has secured €8 million via a Series A round from BlackFin Capital and MTech Capital. The funds raised will be used to expand the firm’s business operations across North and South America… Read More

March 13, 2020 @ 7:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) banking sector has become increasingly competitive due to the significant increase in the number of Fintech firms in the Middle Eastern country. The UAE has also established (for the most part) progressive regulatory guidelines and is in the process of… Read More

March 11, 2020 @ 6:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Finantix has reportedly signed an agreement for the acquisition of Zürich-based InCube Group AG, a company with a team of artificial intelligence (AI) specialists, quant and application developers and finance professionals that create data-driven, AI-powered products for wealth managers and insurers. Finantix’s acquisition of InCube… Read More

March 10, 2020 @ 4:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

A study recently published by Juniper Research has revealed that total spending on artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced platforms and solutions will surpass $15 billion by 2024. Juniper Research’s latest study, titled AI Strategies for Network Operators: Key Use Cases & Monetisation Models 2020-2024, noted that only… Read More

March 8, 2020 @ 12:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Fintech firm Finastra has revealed that its customers will be able to Active.Ai‘s conversational artificial intelligence (AI)-based retail banking app, which was integrated with the FusionFabric.cloud platform. Active.Ai is now accessible via the FusionStore. Finastra is now offering banks and its credit union customers… Read More

March 7, 2020 @ 9:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The global neo and challenger bank market is projected to reach a valuation of approximately $578 billion by 2027, at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of about 46.5% from 2019 to 2027. This, according to a recent report from Facts and Factors Market Research,… Read More

March 6, 2020 @ 10:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kuwait-based company Path Solutions has introduced the Path Digital and Path Intelligence platforms to allow local banks to offer clients a seamless and intelligent digital banking experience.  The Fintech solution provider noted that the launch of the new platform will complement its new Intelligent Digital… Read More

March 5, 2020 @ 10:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A recent study published by Juniper Research claims that by 2024, the number of digital banking customers will surpass 3.6 billion, which would be a significant 54% increase from the current 2.4 billion users in 2020. This considerable growth has been attributed to the steady… Read More

March 5, 2020 @ 7:24 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Money, a major financial services brand used by three independent brand-licensees based in Australia, South Africa and the UK, is teaming up with Deloitte Digital and Temenos, a Switzerland-based banking software company.  Through the partnership, Virgin Money plans to establish a… Read More

February 26, 2020 @ 10:16 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Pagaya, an artificial intelligence (AI) powered investment manager, announced on Wednesday it has closed its sixth capital markets transaction for a $200 million asset-backed security (ABS), which was led by structuring agent Cantor Fitzgerald. The transaction brings Pagaya’s total assets under management (AUM) to $1.5 billion…. Read More

February 21, 2020 @ 11:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

SoftBank, a Japan-based global conglomerate holding firm with more than $283 billion in assets, is reportedly planning to invest $100 million, through its second Vision Fund, into Behavox, a UK-based company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor workers’ behavior at financial services firms. SoftBank’s management… Read More

February 20, 2020 @ 2:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OTB Ventures (OTB), a VC fund focused on making strategic investments in technology firms based in central and eastern Europe, has introduced an early-stage tech fund, which is notably the biggest venture capital fund in the region. The fund has reportedly received $100 million in… Read More

February 20, 2020 @ 1:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LenDenClub, a peer-to-peer (P2P) lending solution provider, has teamed up with Singapore-headquartered CredoLab, an established developer of bank-grade online credit scorecards, which are based on mobile phone metadata.  LenDenClub has integrated CredoLab’s credit scoring system, called CredoSDK. The credit system will help the firm in… Read More

February 19, 2020 @ 9:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank of Singapore, the private banking arm of OCBC Bank (Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Limited) (SGX: O39), has appointed Celine Le Cotonnec to the institution’s newly created role of chief data and innovation officer. Le Cotonnec will be reporting directly to Bahren Shaari, the CEO at… Read More