Tagged: natural language processing

September 4, 2021 @ 12:15 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Axyon AI, an AI provider for the asset management sector, has appointed Luigi Conti to serve as an independent board member. Axyon AI offers deep learning solutions that assist fund managers with providing more efficient and innovative investment services. The firm, which includes UniCredit S.p.A…. Read More

August 23, 2021 @ 11:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Overbond and IPC have announced a new partnership focused on accelerating the automation of fixed-income trading with voice-to-AI technology. Overbond is teaming up with IPC, a provider of secure, compliant communications and multi-Cloud connectivity services for the international financial markets, in order to integrate IPC’s… Read More

August 23, 2021 @ 5:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ojamu, which aims to bring AI-enhanced MarTech (marketing technology) to the blockchain by harnessing the power of DLT and NFTs, says it wants to help with “predicting” the “most effective” digital marketing strategy for major brands. Founded in 2019, Singapore-based Ojamu notes that they plan… Read More

August 12, 2021 @ 8:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The team at Tel Aviv-based Shield, an established Regtech firm, reveals that they’re introducing their powerful Alert Transparency capabilities, bringing “unmatched” understanding to compliance alerts and triggers via AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and various other backend technologies. As regulatory authorities throughout the world aim… Read More

August 10, 2021 @ 11:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Symphony, the market’s infrastructure and technology platform, confirmed that it will now provide a complete, secure and verified directory for the financial services sector as it has acquired StreetLinx, a counterparty mapping platform. This acquisition adds more than 200 institutional counterparties to the 1000+ institutions… Read More

August 5, 2021 @ 6:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

yellow.ai, a customer experience (CX) automation platform, “trusted” by over 700 enterprises internationally, reveals that it has acquired $78.15M through a Series C round, which was led by WestBridge Capital along with contributions from Sapphire Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. As noted in a release shared… Read More

June 21, 2021 @ 11:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Scottish Fintech firm Aveni has acquired a £1.1 million investment in order to establish an AI platform which is focused on supporting speech analytics for modern businesses. Aveni Detect reportedly uses the latest artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP) technologies in order to fully… Read More

May 20, 2021 @ 7:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ComplyAdvantage, an AI-enhanced financial crime detection firm, has  extended its Series C funding round to $70 million, with an additional $20 million from Goldman Sachs. ComplyAdvantage‘s  investment has reportedly come on top of the firm’s oversubscribed Series C round that was announced in July of… Read More

April 30, 2021 @ 9:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based IOWArocks, the international marketplace for data, technology, and services, has reportedly added First To Invest to their platform. First To Invest leverages Big Data and natural language processing (NLP) technologies to gather, structure, and share key events related to public, private firms, and specific… Read More

February 17, 2021 @ 8:35 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Israel-based Mirato, a company that has developed an AI-enhanced third-party risk management platform (TPRM) for financial services providers, has secured $9 million in capital. Mirato’s investment round was led by Grove Ventures along with contributions from Janvest Capital Partners (co-leader), American Express Ventures, iAngels and… Read More

December 28, 2020 @ 7:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

IOHK (Input Output Hong Kong) has teamed up with Wolfram in order to power Cardano (ADA), a major platform for building decentralized applications (dApps). Cardano has notably joined Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) by integrating into Wolfram’s leading technology and knowledge base, Wolfram Alpha. However,… Read More

October 18, 2020 @ 6:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Israel based Regtech firm Shield was recently chosen to join the IBM Cloud for Financial Services ecosystem. Many financial institutions have been migrating or deploying new applications on Cloud-powered platforms that streamline routine banking and related business processes. We recently caught up with Eran Noam,… Read More

October 14, 2020 @ 4:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Grata, a company developing the “first-of-its-kind” small business B2B search engine, has secured $3.2 million in seed funding. As mentioned in a release shared with CI, Grata’s investment round was led by Bling Capital along with participation from Accomplice and Alumni Ventures Group. Former executives… Read More

June 6, 2020 @ 6:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Edinburgh-based Fintech Aveni is planning to improve how businesses interact with their clients by automating customer relations management (CRM), fact-checking, risk monitoring and assessment, and adviser prompts. The company has secured £520,000 in seed funding through a round led by the Tricapital angel syndicate. The… Read More

June 6, 2020 @ 11:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Securities Services division of France’s BNP Paribas, the 8th largest bank in the world in terms of total assets, is reportedly using Natural Language Generation (NLG) to prepare concise, one-page executive summaries for its custody customers. BNP Paribas explained that NLG helps it convert… Read More

April 19, 2020 @ 5:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based Sprout.ai, an insurance technology (Insurtech) firm previously called BlockClaim, has secured $2.5 million in capital through its second seed round, which was led by Amadeus Capital Partners. Existing investors Playfair Capital and Techstars also took part in Sprout’s latest investment round. The London-headquartered firm… Read More

March 16, 2020 @ 7:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The ING Group, a Dutch multinational banking and financial services corporation based in Amsterdam with over $1 trillion in assets, has reportedly contributed €4.5 million (appr. $5 million) to a $42 million investment round in Eigen Technologies, a natural language processing (NLP) solution provider. The… Read More

February 9, 2020 @ 8:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with Tim Carmody, Chief Technology Officer of IPC, a global leader in financial trading and communications technology solutions. Carmody, who has several decades of experience in designing and leading complex technology solutions for the trading community, discussed how Wall Street companies… Read More

February 6, 2020 @ 4:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Yseop, a 12-year-old France-based software development firm, recently introduced an enterprise-level natural-language generation (NLG) automated report generation solution, called the Augmented Analyst, in order to assist financial service providers with their digital transformation efforts. Yseop has reportedly worked cooperatively with Moody’s, BNP Paribas, and Sanofi… Read More