Tagged: ML

August 16, 2020 @ 4:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Uruguay’s Kona, a company focused on enhancing customer experience with machine learning (ML) enabled solutions for businesses, which includes chatbots and various cognitive solutions for call centers, has reportedly landed a deal with a major Canadian bank. Established in Montevideo, and now headquartered in Toronto,… Read More

August 5, 2020 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Machine learning (ML) is increasingly being used in trading in order to help investors with improving their decision-making and trade execution strategies. However, ML poses various challenges when it comes to capital markets surveillance, but its proponents argue that the technology serves a useful purpose…. Read More

August 5, 2020 @ 10:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Truera, a company that provides the Fintech industry’s first Model Intelligence platform, has reportedly emerged from stealth to officially launch its tech solution that aims to remove the “black box” surrounding machine learning (ML) and offers intelligence and “actionable” insights during the ML model lifecycle…. Read More

August 2, 2020 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

October, a leading European online lender, reveals that it was definitely not “idle” during the month of July 2020, despite the challenges created by the global COVID-19 outbreak and the resulting economic uncertainty. October claims that July 2020 was a record month, during which 55… Read More

July 19, 2020 @ 1:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lucinity, an AML software developer established by a compliance professional who previously worked at Citigroup, has acquired $6.1 million in capital. Meanwhile, Regtech company Hummingbird, which is also an anti-money laundering software developer, has finalized an $8.2 million Series A investment round. Lucinity’s recent round… Read More

June 26, 2020 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The global AI in Fintech market was valued at about $6.67 billion last year and is now projected to reach $22.6 billion by 2025. As noted in ResearchAndMarket’s recent report, the AI Fintech sector is on track to expand at a CAGR of 23.37% from… Read More

April 5, 2020 @ 6:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Points Technology, an artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain-focused firm, has reportedly acquired millions of dollars in funding through a Series A round. K2 Venture Partners, a Chinese venture capital firm, made the investment. Points Technology’s management said that the funds raised will be used to… 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 2, 2020 @ 7:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ireland-based DX, a Regtech firm focused on developing compliance software, aims to introduce flexible anti-money laundering (AML) checks and processes for Fintech companies. Simon Dix, a lawyer who previously worked at Germany-based digital bank Fidor Bank, has extensive experience dealing with AML compliance matters in… Read More

February 12, 2020 @ 8:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The global artificial intelligence (AI) market size is projected to hit $390.9 billion by 2025. The market is expected to achieve a compound annual growth rate of 46.2% from 2019 to 2025. AI is a major technological innovation along with Big Data advancements, machine learning… Read More

February 12, 2020 @ 8:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) platform Xero has reportedly made a new technology integration with Square’s software in Australia, in order to allow users to make instant payments of small-business invoices. The new feature will allow small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) using Square’s platform to… Read More

February 9, 2020 @ 4:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-headquartered HouseCanary, a Fintech firm focused on providing a real estate analytics solution, has secured $65 million through a growth funding round led by Morpheus Ventures, Alpha Edison, and PSP Growth. Following HouseCanary’s latest investment round, the firm’s total funding (to date) stands at… Read More

February 6, 2020 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Central Bank (ECB) has partnered with Reply, a platform focused on digital innovation, in order to offer a 48-hour coding marathon, which will focus on teaching participants how to apply the latest artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms. The marathon is… Read More

February 4, 2020 @ 11:02 am By JD Alois  |  

The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF), at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, has published a new report on artificial intelligence (AI) and the future of financial services. CCAF is the leading research entity covering the global ecosystem of Fintech from online capital… Read More

January 24, 2020 @ 6:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) will reportedly be running a public/private forum that will go into the relevant technical and public policy issues related to bank adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies and software…. Read More

January 14, 2020 @ 11:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HSBC, a British multinational investment bank and financial services holding company with over $2.5 trillion in total assets, has reportedly been voted as the leading trade finance bank in the Middle Eastern country of Bahrain in the Euromoney trade finance survey for 2020. This is… Read More

December 31, 2019 @ 1:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

New York-based tech giant IBM and the Argentine Chamber of Fintech have entered an agreement to support various innovative projects and digital transformation initiatives in Argentina’s financial technology and banking sector. IBM will reportedly support the chamber in developing activities to promote Fintech-related projects such… Read More

October 17, 2019 @ 9:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A report from the Bank of England (BoE) notes that the application of machine learning (ML) methods in the financial services sector could enhance routine business processes.  Improved software and hardware and increasing volumes of data have enhanced the pace of ongoing ML development, BoE’s… Read More