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B2B Investors Get Smart About Business Intelligence

Investors placed more than $136.5 million with B2B startups this past week, and while investment targets were diverse (including B2B eCommerce and...

Risk Management

FI/FinTech Partnerships: Eyeing Risk To Reap Rewards

It’s no secret that banks and FinTechs are collaborating at a rate faster than ever before. Where once traditional finance companies viewed...

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Amazon

Machine Learning Gets Its Day At Amazon Conference

Machine learning was one of the main subjects on Tuesday (July 17) during the Amazon AWS Summit in New York City, as the...

Microsoft, KPMG Announce Next B2B Solution

WIISE, the FinTech joint venture between Microsoft and KPMG Australia, will go global in 2019, the companies announced in a press release issued...

Fraud Prevention

Can Robots Fight Fraud And ID Theft?

Robots flip burgers, make cocktails, engage in the practice of law and perform an increasing number of tasks all across the global...

Amazon

Microsoft Calls For Regulation Of Facial Recognition Tech

About two months after civil liberties organizations demanded that Amazon stop providing governments with facial recognition services, Microsoft is asking for government...

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Facebook

Facebook Files Patent For eCommerce Messenger Bot

As Facebook continues its forays into commerce, the company has filed a patent for a messaging bot that enables users to pay...

Will Prime Day Be A Big Power Boost For Alexa?

When a consumer talks to a voice assistant, odds are very good that Alexa‘s is the digital voice they will hear. According...

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Thinking About B2B Payments As An Interaction — Not A Transaction

There is a better way for banks to help corporations and businesses, including SMEs, to make money — a method that takes...

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Apple

Ex-Googler Hired By Apple To Make Siri Smart

Apple has announced that John Giannandrea is its Chief of Machine Learning and AI Strategy, reporting to CEO Tim Cook. Joining Apple...

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Why AI Is The Future Of Community Banking

On a surface level, community banking and artificial intelligence (AI) can seem like something of a mismatch in concept. Community banking is...

Mastercard, Strands Partner On AI-Powered SMB Banking Platform For Banks

Mastercard and EU FinTech Strands are collaborating on a cash management and corporate payments platform for banks, designed to address small business...

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Data

Tech Firms Hit Speed Bumps In GDPR Adoption

It’s been just a few weeks since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect — and speed bumps remain. As noted...

Before AI Disruption, Procurement Leaders Say It’s Back To Basics

For a few years now, the procurement department has earned rising attention for its potential to become a strategic component of the...

Five At Five: Amazon Prime’s Real Value

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Coverage includes a discussion of the real...

Partnerships / Acquisitions

Retail

Alibaba Tests Out ‘FashionAI’ Concept Store

By opening a temporary store with apparel from Guess, Alibaba is testing out its inaugural “FashionAI” concept at Hong Kong Polytechnic University....

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Data

Study: Tech Companies Could Be Running Afoul Of GDPR

The European Union’s (EU) new data privacy law isn’t being followed by some of the globe’s biggest technology companies, according to research...

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Nokia And Tencent Team Up For Research On 5G

Nokia and Tencent, one of China’s leading providers of internet services, announced Thursday (July 5) that they inked an agreement to carry...

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Healthcare

China’s WeDoctor Wants To Disrupt Healthcare Too

It can be justifiably easy to focus on Amazon when it comes to disruptions in healthcare. But ignoring the role of a...

Payment Methods

Firecracker Research Informs Payments Decision Makers

Languid hot holiday day? Day off from work? Time to get thinking -- about payments, financial services and innovation, and getting a leg...

AI And Credit Unions: A Tool, Not Just Tech

Across the U.S., there are 5,757 credit unions with 103.992 million members – and it’s been reported by the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) that...

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Delivery

The Future Of Retail Deliveries With Autonomous Vehicles

When it comes to online orders, retailers selling groceries — or even takeout food — face a constant balancing act: How can...

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Today In Data

The New Frontiers Of Consumer Engagement

Finding customers is less of a challenge than it once was, since most people carry a supercomputer in their pockets that makes...

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Investments

RBC Investing $2M In Ben-Gurion University’s Cybersecurity Research Center

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and BGN Technologies, the technology transfer company of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, announced this week...

Amazon Alexa’s iOS Expansion (And Beyond)

As of the last official count offered by Amazon in March, Alexa had 30,000 skills. That number is almost certainly quite a...

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Digital Banking

How PNC Is Adapting To The Rise Of AI

More than 90 percent of FIs will use AI technology by 2024, but banks risk breaking their user experience as they race...

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Blockchain

The Case For Blockchain-Backed AI Capabilities

This might be an interesting way to earn some digital income: Become a part of Skynet and help spread the gift of...

Partnerships / Acquisitions

Investments

CashShield Raises $20M In Latest Round Of Fundraising

CashShield, an online fraud management solution for mid- to large-sized enterprises, announced Tuesday (June 26) it raised $20 million via a round of...

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Ping Identity Buys Elastic Beam, Launches New Platform For APIs

Ping Identity, an identity Defined Security company, announced news on Tuesday (June 26) of the acquisition of API cybersecurity provider Elastic Beam...

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Digital Banking

TRENDING: AI Tech That Doesn’t Break The Banking Experience

Digital banking offerings might not be new in countries like the U.S. and U.K., but it’s still an emerging offering in some....

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Partnerships / Acquisitions

Marks & Spencer Teams Up With Microsoft For AI Tech

In an effort to explore artificial intelligence (AI), Britain’s Marks & Spencer Group (M&S) is collaborating with Microsoft. Through their strategic partnership,...

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Google

Google Assistant Becomes More Conversational

Google has made talking to Google Assistant easier with the launch of Continued Conversation. “For the Google Assistant to have a natural...

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Innovation

AiFi’s Plans To Scale Checkout-Free Grocery Stores

It’s a stamp of approval and financial reward in an increasingly competitive field: AiFi, a U.S.-based company about to launch major tests...

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Alexa Skills Kit Arrives In Italy, Spain

Amazon has announced that developers can start building voice experiences for customers in Italy and Spain using the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK)....

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Point of Sale

Becoming Our Money — And Other Tales From The POS World

Perhaps not since the adoption of chip and PIN payments has there existed so much potential for disruption in the point-of-sale market....

Data Dive

Data Dive: Good News, Bad News And Mixed News

One of the more remarkable things about soccer – other than the amazingly massive global audience commands – is that it is...

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Retail

Father’s Day Commerce: Shopping For, With And To Be More Like Dad

Father’s Day has always had some trouble engendering the kind of enthusiasm for gift giving that Mother’s Day does — and we mean always....

Consumer Finance

With The Aid Of Technology, Teaching The Insurance Industry To ‘Speak Millennial’

In the movement from analog to digital, money matters — the type of money that fuels technology, that underpins new products and...

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Google

Google Wants To Bring Voice Tech To Doctors

Google is hiring staff to work on an early-stage research project called Medical Digital Assist, which will use voice recognition to help...

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Five at Five: Microsoft Takes on Amazon

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the day’s payments and commerce news. Today we have stories about Microsoft moving...

RBC To Spend More Than $3B On Advanced Technology

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is gearing up to spend $3.2 billion on technology with a focus on artificial intelligence, digital products...

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Amazon Blueprints Allow Users To Share Customized Alexa Skills

Amazon will now allow users who create their own personalized skill through Alexa Skill Blueprints to share it with others. Amazon launched...

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Samsung NEXT Launches Fund For AI Startups

Samsung NEXT has announced the launch of Samsung NEXT Q Fund to fund startups involved in artificial intelligence (AI). Q Fund will provide...

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Google

Google’s Commerce Ecosystem Upgrades

When Google rolled out the latest and greatest upgrade to its Shopping List tool in April — and changed the tool’s app-based...

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Five At Five: Home Depot Wants Speedier Deliveries

Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at the payments and commerce news you might have missed. Today, you can read...

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Bank Of America’s AI Assistant Surpasses 1M Users

Bank of America announced Tuesday (June 12) that Erica, its AI voice-activated virtual financial assistant that is available through its mobile banking...

The Limitations Of Tech On Procurement’s Cost-Cutting Efforts

The procure-to-pay space is not immune to technological disruption, particularly as tools like blockchain, artificial intelligence and predictive analytics enable automated, efficient...