AI
Singapore Ranks First in Global Cities’ AI Readiness and Smart City Effort
Two recent studies have found Singapore to be the world’s most prepared city for the age of artificial intelligence (AI), and the global leader in terms of smart city effort. The first research, conducted by the Oliver Wyman Forum, ranks
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More Than Half of Financial Services Industry in APAC Have Started on Their AI Journey
Today, Microsoft Asia and IDC Asia Pacific released findings on AI in financial services from the study Future Ready Business: Assessing Asia-Pacific’s Growth with AI, which found that organizations with AI expect to see 41% improvement in competitiveness in three
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Standard Chartered’s VC Arm Participated in AI Firm’s US$40 Million Round
Digital Reasoning, today announced a strategic investment from SC Ventures, the innovation, ventures and fintech investments unit of Standard Chartered Bank, bringing its Series D-1 funding round total to $40 million. In addition to this investment, Digital Reasoning will partner
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OCBC’s New Voice-Based Virtual Assistant Gaining Traction
Each month, over two million banking transactions and services are performed using the OCBC Mobile Banking app. Since 19 August 2019, the app has offered an AI-powered voice-based virtual assistant – which has helped with over 20,000 requests made via voice.
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How AI and Automation is Changing the Face of Investing
The growing importance of the role played by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in virtually every aspect of modern life is difficult to overstate. In simple terms AI describes the ability of a computer to think and learn. It captures the fact
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Visa Said Their AI-Powered Fraud Detection Helped Prevent US$25 Bil in Fraud Annually
Visa just announced that their Visa Advanced Authorisation (VAA) process, done using artificial intelligence, has helped financial institutions prevent an estimated US$25 billion in annual fraud. VAA, used by Visa themselves, is a comprehensive risk management tool that monitors and
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Philippines’ Ayala Corp Raising US$150-M Fund for Disruptive Early-Stage Startups
The Ayala Corporation, Philippines’ oldest conglomerate, is raising a new venture capital fund worth US$150 million, dedicated towards investing into early stage startups engaged in e-commerce, as well as what the company deems as disruptive technologies; like fintech, healthtech, artificial intelligence,
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Huawei Bets on Singapore’s Artificial Intelligence with New AI Innovation Lab
Huawei held its Cloud Summit 2019, in which the company announced the launch of its Cloud & AI Innovation Lab in Singapore. The lab aims to cultivate local AI talents and bridge Singapore with state-of-the-art AI technologies globally, and accelerate
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Flywire Joins The Growing Number of Financial Services Deploying Machine Learning
Flywire a payments firm announced that they are deploying machine learning capabilities into its payments platform. The enhancements are geared towards improving payment to settlement time, increasing security, cost reduction and to streamline reconciliation of the growing number of international
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3 in 4 Banks in Asia Will Invest in Machine Learning This Year
The financial services industry is undergoing profound shifts facilitated by technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and the Internet of Things (IoT), but according to Refinitiv, AI will be the single greatest enabler of competitive advantage in the financial sector.
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