March 31, 2017
HSBC Taps Tradeshift For Supply Chain Digitization
HSBC revealed a partnership with Tradeshift, a B2B eCommerce and supply chain management platform, in a move some reports said reflects banks’ newfound willingness to collaborate with FinTechs. An announcement Thursday...
March 30, 2017
Tencent Buys Stake In Tesla
China’s internet giant Tencent, owner of the wildly popular messaging app WeChat, reportedly just bought up a 5 percent stake in U.S. automaker and energy storage company Tesla to the...
March 30, 2017
Tradeshift Debuts Ada, Its B2B Virtual Assistant
B2B eCommerce platform Tradeshift has debuted Ada, an artificial intelligence solution to help businesses collaborate with each other. Reports Wednesday (March 29) said Tradeshift Ada was revealed by the company as...
March 29, 2017
Data Enablers: Opera Solutions Signals Big Data Value
Big Data may be everywhere, but that doesn’t mean that companies are able to actually get the most out of it in an efficient and scalable way. With the notion...
March 29, 2017
How Signifyd Wants To Keep The Right Thing On Retailers’...
While retailers of late have worked hard to broaden the range of experiences they offer, there are some things that no reasonable person would expect merchants to do. The general...
March 28, 2017
Chatbot Tracker: Uncovering True Customer Intent?
Mom and Pop stores once ruled the retail world in America. Consumers could walk into their local butcher shop and be served their favorite piece of steak for their weekly...
March 28, 2017
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Aims To Augment The Brain To Keep...
Elon Musk has launched another new company, Neuralink, which focuses on developing the capabilities of the brain through technological augmentation so that humans can one day keep up with artificial...
March 28, 2017
Snapcart Raises Additional Funds To Provide Offline Commerce Data In...
Snapcart, a startup helping to provide data regarding offline commerce in Southeast Asia, has raised $3 million in pre-Series A funding. According to TechCrunch, the company raised $1.7 million in...
March 27, 2017
India Restaurant Procurement Startup Lands Pre-Series A
An eProcurement startup in India secured pre-Series A funding, reports Friday (March 24) said. Adurcup raised financing from corporate investors and family offices, according to reports, in what is a...
Generative AI’s use in the telecommunications industry is increasing, with 87% of telecom executives seeing its potential to enhance customer relations and experience, but 68% of telecoms also admit they are insufficiently addressing the risks associated with the technology. The latest edition of the “Generative AI Tracker®,” a collaboration with AI-ID, examines why three-quarters of telecoms see a need to do more to combat AI fraudsters, underscoring the tension between innovation and robust security.
Although authorized party fraud accounts for only 37% of FIs’ fraud losses in dollars, these types of attacks are the most likely to impact customer satisfaction and retention — something FIs cannot overlook. PYMNTS Intelligence’s latest 29-page report, “Leveraging AI and ML to Thwart Scammers,” a collaboration with Hawk, contains 8 charts of proprietary data examining the role of ML and AI to help keep fraudsters from getting the upper hand