Tagged: ML

April 3, 2023 @ 4:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

FedML announced $6 million in funding to spearhead a “collaborative AI” movement that empowers companies and developers to work together on machine learning tasks by sharing data, models and compute resources – “fueling waves of AI innovation beyond the largest technology companies.” To meet that… Read More

March 6, 2023 @ 1:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Liquidity Group, a pioneering financial technology firm and asset manager that uses patented machine learning and decision science to provide capital to high-growth technology companies, has announced the launch of its global ‘Twenty Chairs’ series. The series will bring together leading industry players “to network… Read More

March 5, 2023 @ 11:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Feedzai, a key player focused on fighting financial crime with AI, has joined the Global Anti Scam Alliance (GASA) – a not-for-profit organisation whose goal is “to protect consumers across the world from scams – as a corporate member.” GASA brings together governments, law enforcement,… Read More

February 28, 2023 @ 11:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Robin Ai are pleased to announce that they have secured $10.5m in our Series A funding round. This capital from the investment round will be ‘used to accelerate and scale their mission to change the way the legal industry works by using… Read More

February 21, 2023 @ 4:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bosch and Fetch.ai are announcing their new partnership “to form a new Web3 foundation – Fetch.ai Foundation, that aims to research, develop and harness Web3 technology for real-world use cases that will span across mobility, industrial, and consumer domains.” Fetch.ai Foundation will be “anchored in… Read More

December 26, 2022 @ 10:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

83% of firms will increase spending “on operational excellence initiatives in 2023,” according to an update from Verdantix. AI [artificial intelligence] and machine learning are “increasingly being used by industrial firms to maximise data utility.” The report from Verdantix also mentioned that “the global skills… Read More

December 8, 2022 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Deutsche Bank (ETR: DBK) announced a multi-year innovation partnership with NVIDIA in order “to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the financial services sector.” Combining Deutsche Bank’s financial industry expertise with NVIDIA’s leadership in AI and accelerated computing “will… Read More

November 28, 2022 @ 8:37 am By Alex Zeltcer  |  

There’s no doubt in the minds of financial organizations and anti-laundering regulators that Know Your Customer (KYC) verified accounts prevent fraudulent activity– and that’s exactly the problem. In the early 1990s, governments around the globe had a growing concern about preventing the increasingly connected banking… Read More

November 24, 2022 @ 9:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Featurespace, which claims to be the leader in machine learning fraud and financial crime prevention technology, has secured funding from UK and US governments “to build a new type of artificial intelligence (AI) system to help banks and payments service providers (PSPs) detect financial crime… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 11:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ComplyAdvantage, a global data technology company transforming financial crime risk detection, announces a training program “designed to help compliance teams navigate potential threats when onboarding customers.” Financial institutions must legally “vet new clients for money laundering, terrorist financing, sanctions evasion, and corruption before providing access… Read More

October 29, 2022 @ 2:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pi, a fraud risk management (FRM) platform founded by Paytm Labs designed to address high-volume applications for fintechs using machine learning (ML), has published a new report on “the impact of fraud on consumer confidence.” The research report, titled “Fraud vs. Friction: How the need… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 9:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Resistant AI, the AI and machine learning financial crime prevention specialists, and ComplyAdvantage, which claims to be one of the financial industry’s leading sources of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology, announced “the general availability of their solution for fighting financial crime across… Read More

October 12, 2022 @ 2:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

One True Holding Company d/b/a/ TrueML, a financial technology software company developing machine learning-driven products that enable intelligent, digital communication including in the debt collection space, recently announced it has “acquired the debt collection business of Enhanced Recovery Company, LLC (ERC), a collections provider.” The… Read More

October 6, 2022 @ 4:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

During the pandemic, online grocery orders “rose by more than 50% and are expected to rise further this year,” according to McKinsey research. More than ever, people “make day-to-day purchases online, choosing quick commerce merchants that offer speed and convenience.” As people open new accounts… Read More

September 19, 2022 @ 10:21 pm By JD Alois  |  

Machine learning (ML) startup TrueFoundry has raised USD$ 2.3 million in Seed funding led by Sequoia India, and SE Asia’s Surge with the participation of AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant and Eniac Ventures. Other angel investors include Deutsche Bank Global CIO Dilip Khandelwal, Head of GitHub… Read More

August 23, 2022 @ 8:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) announced that it has acquired key strategic assets from Zaloni, a key player in data technology solution delivery. Through this agreement, Truist will “acquire the Zaloni Arena platform to accelerate its data governance, metadata management, advanced analytics, and artificial intelligence… Read More

July 21, 2022 @ 8:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As part of SubQuery’s initiative to support all native layers of the Cosmos ecosystem, SubQuery is pleased to announce support for Fetch-ai Network (an interchain protocol, based on the Cosmos-SDK). Fetch-ai network is “building an open access, tokenized, decentralized machine learning network to enable smart infrastructure… Read More

June 5, 2022 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

AI and machine learning (ML) focused VC investment slumped in line or consistent with the market but retained “resilient valuations” as the market sorts through the fallout from the recent technology crash. As noted in an update shared by Pitchbook, funding “slumped 21.1% QoQ to… Read More

May 9, 2022 @ 6:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Pindrop, an international “leader” in voice tech, has announced a partnership with Google Cloud that will enable it “to build and offer new authentication solutions to enhance call center experiences for customers on Google Cloud’s platform.” Pindrop will also make its suite of fraud detection… Read More

April 1, 2022 @ 9:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Advantage Payment Services (APS), a key player in financial data management for top Fintech payments organizations, has received “a strategic investment from MetaBank®, N.A.” This issuer is investing in the development of the next-generation of APS solutions that “will up-level the industry standard for regulatory… Read More