February 24, 2017
Voice-Activated Tracker: Let’s Talk About Banks
This week’s voice-activated tracker is all about the banks, baby. In recent weeks, a number of financial institutions and FinTech providers have begun testing, introducing or adding upgrades to voice...
February 24, 2017
Microsoft Ventures Makes Investment In Drone Startup
Microsoft Ventures, the venture capital (VC) arm of the Redmond, Wash.–based software giant, led a $26 million venture round in AirMap, a drone startup that is the main maker of...
February 24, 2017
Millennials Expect Personalization, AI Out Of Their Future Phones
On Thursday (Feb. 23), CSG Systems International, a digital services company, announced the results of a survey of millennials, which found they have clear priorities for their mobile services in the...
February 24, 2017
Alexa Authentication A Natural Fit For SME Banking
The way FinTech adoption goes, it’s usually the consumers who first jump onto a new technology, and corporate users typically follow later. Mike Carter, chief marketing officer for D3 Banking,...
February 24, 2017
B2B FinTech (Nearly) Hits $100M In Funding
B2B FinTech startups came close to hitting the $100 million investment mark this week, with funding rounds in the U.S., India, Australia, Germany, Sweden and the U.K. The most lucrative...
February 23, 2017
ViSenze Sees Visual Search Growth In eCommerce
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly important for eCommerce companies, according to new data from ViSenze. AI technology startup ViSenze creates digital image search solutions built on deep learning and...
February 23, 2017
D3 Banking Says Hello To Alexa
FinTech startup and digital banking solutions provider D3 Banking recently unveiled an intelligent voice banking interface using Amazon’s Alexa. The new voice interface will enable banking customers to check account...
February 23, 2017
Can Artificial Intelligence Personalize Health Care Apps?
Could personalizing health care apps via AI save the medical day? The hot-off-the-presses February Developer Tracker™ features an interview with Gilad Meiri, founder and CEO of Neura, about the potential...
February 22, 2017
NEW REPORT: Is AI The Cure For What Ails Health...
The software development universe is growing. Providers from around the industry have taken on new geographic markets, as companies pursued new customers in distant locales and new verticals. They also made moves...
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