Tagged: ai

November 21, 2024 @ 9:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Juniper Research has shared key fintech and payments trends in order to  provide industry stakeholders, including banks, intermediaries, and providers, with foresight into emerging technological shifts and market opportunities. Juniper Research stays focused on on identifying and “evaluating the latest disruptive trends in fintech, payments,… Read More

November 20, 2024 @ 9:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CBInsights has released that aims to highlight key technology trends moving forward, as we prepare for 2025. CBInsights has looked at the future of LLMs, caregiving humanoid robots. crypto’s so-called “baby steps” and other important innovations. CBInsights data has uncovered a number of high-potential emerging… Read More

November 17, 2024 @ 6:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeff Weinstein, a Product Specialist at Stripe, recently announced an innovative development for the AI community. Weinstein noted that Stripe’s launch of a new SDK is specifically designed for AI agents. Today(), @stripe is launching a SDK built for AI agents: – LLMs can call… Read More

November 16, 2024 @ 4:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network and shopping assistant, has launched with Staples, a firm focused on workspace products and solutions. Staples customers can spread the cost of their vital office supplies with Klarna’s Pay in 4 or Financing options, or “pay in full” with… Read More

November 10, 2024 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stablecoins issuer Circle, which reported minting over $2 billion in stablecoin USDC in just the past few weeks, has explored how the intersection of AI and blockchain tech is expected to transform our understanding of work and finance, especially via the use of “autonomous” payments…. Read More

November 8, 2024 @ 5:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ant International, a digital payment and financial technology provider headquartered in Singapore, has been enhancing its integration of AI technologies to support and secure millions of daily cross-border transactions for merchants across 200+ markets. Yang Peng, Chief Executive Officer of Ant International said that integration… Read More

November 8, 2024 @ 6:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UATP, the global payment network that enables organizations to simplify payment processes and expand their payment capabilities, has announced a new partnership with Klarna, the AI-powered global payments network. The partnership allows airlines to offer Klarna’s flexible payment services, “including interest-free Buy Now Pay Later,… Read More

November 3, 2024 @ 6:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CBInsights has released the latest State of AI Q3’24 Report. CBInsights noted that the quarterly AI (artificial intelligence) deal count surged to reach “highest” level since Q1’22 peak. In Q3’24, CBInsights revealed that the global AI deal count surged “24% QoQ to reach 1,245 —… Read More

November 3, 2024 @ 4:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Quantiphi, an AI-powered digital engineering company, announced a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to advance enterprise adoption of generative AI and expand its product, engineering and resources to address the demand for Google Cloud’s AI technologies. The partnership builds on the companies’ history of accelerating… Read More

November 3, 2024 @ 4:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FLock.io, a platform for federated learning on blockchain, announced that it has entered into an MoU with Animoca Brands, the company driving digital property rights via NFTs and gaming to help build the open metaverse, to explore “co-creation opportunities” for domain-specific AI models using FLock.io’s… Read More

November 3, 2024 @ 4:09 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Warburg AI, a UAE-based artificial intelligence company specializing in financial services, has raised $250,000 in seed funding to accelerate the development of its AI-driven financial solutions, according to an announcement. Founded in September 2024 in Sharjah by entrepreneurs Ben Feaver, Lancelot de Brier, and Madiyar… Read More

November 2, 2024 @ 5:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Artificial intelligence is increasingly finding its way into the cloud, according to a report from KPMG which revealed that 97 per cent of companies in Germany that use cloud services obtain their AI (artificial intelligence) solutions from cloud providers. The research report noted that the… Read More

November 2, 2024 @ 4:18 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Listed firm CryptoBlox Technologies Inc. has announced its acquisition of Blockchain Fintech Unipessoal LDA, a Portuguese company specializing in blockchain-based financial technologies. The announcement was part of the amended agreement that revises the initial acquisition terms disclosed on March 5, 2024, reflecting the latest developments… Read More

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

Feedzai, the RiskOps platform, offering AI-powered solutions to protect people and payments against financial crime, reveals that 42% of French citizens will use fingerprint authentication to secure their payments, especially among the younger generation aged 18-34, where the rate is 56%. Although 32% of respondents… Read More

October 30, 2024 @ 3:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Lunar, the Nordic challenger bank, announces the launch of its AI Voice Assistant, marking a milestone as the European bank to introduce GenAI Native Voice tech. Powered by the GPT-4o model, the GenAI Native Voice Assistant will help make banking accessible to all demographics, offering… Read More

October 29, 2024 @ 4:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Novaprime, a mortgage technology company dedicated to making homeownership more affordable, has recently announced that it makes its public debut with the launch of its AI-powered Loan Quality Platform. The platform is designed to improve the mortgage process by quickly evaluating loan integrity, “reducing processing… Read More

October 27, 2024 @ 5:51 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new report from J.D. Power analyzes if mortgage customers are prepared for AI-powered chatbots. The signs are encouraging. Artificial intelligence (AI) is here to stay. Three-fourths of business leaders say they are planning to escalate their AI investments as they see its potential to redefine… Read More

October 22, 2024 @ 10:09 pm By Michael Wong  |  

DataCrunch, a European provider of artificial intelligence (AI) computing infrastructure, has secured €12 million in a seed funding round led by venture capital firm byFounders. The investment aims to bolster the company’s infrastructure as it strives to become Europe’s first hyperscaler, enhancing service delivery for… Read More

October 21, 2024 @ 9:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Three in four business professionals in the tech sector (74%) believe that the results of the upcoming US election will have a significant impact on the US tech industry’s ability to stay ahead or relevant when compare to their international competitors. Ernst & Young LLP… Read More

October 21, 2024 @ 3:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Herald, the digital infrastructure provider for commercial insurance, announced a $12 million Series A round co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Brewer Lane Ventures with participation from Afore Capital and Underscore Venture Capital. The proceeds from the funding round will now aim to support Insurtech… Read More