Powered by Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, the Global Health Drug Discovery Institute (GHDDI) launched a Free AI Virtual Screening Service for COVID-19 in order to facilitate COVID-19 drug discovery effort globally. The free and web-based research engine provides researchers with an AI powered tool for virtual screening computation, which is powerful enough to support the prediction of SARS-CoV2 relevant target binding the phenotypic properties o

As businesses worldwide increase their use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, the issue of diversity in analytics has become more important. In a new video, global analytics software firm FICO highlighted the need for greater diversity in analytics development teams to fight bias. This video, produced by the Women@FICO team for International Women’s Day 2020, has just received a bronze award at the 2020 Bulldog PR Awards.
 

Kroll, a division of Duff & Phelps, a global leader in risk mitigation, investigations, compliance, cyber resilience, security and incident response solutions, today announced that it now offers credit monitoring services as part of its suite of identity and fraud protection solutions available to UK companies responding to a data breach.

We are going through very unusual times, with most of the country having lived under state-imposed lockdown in the last few months. Against this backdrop, fraudsters are unfortunately thriving, and we have seen numerous warnings and scams being conducted by people who want to take advantage of the situation. Action Fraud has received more than 16,352 reports of COVID-19-related scams, reporting that consumers have lost more than £16 million to ecommerce fraud as of June.

In the latest episode of the RegTech 20:20 podcast from Encompass, the Know Your Customer (KYC) RegTech software provider, guest speaker Francesca Hopwood Road, Head of RegTech and Advanced Analytics at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), is interviewed about how the regulator is working with those within the industry. 

Objectway, a leader in the Digital Wealth & Asset Management software, and KBC Bank have announced, at the beginning of this year, the market launch of the new roboadvisory service, Matti from Bolero, supported by components of the Objectway WealthTech Suite.

Objectway provided portfolio management, rebalancing and proposal generation capabilities in an ‘as-an-engine’ model towards Matti, the smart investment assistant of Bolero, KBC’s online retail broker.

Allica Bank – the recently launched business bank that seeks to empower small and medium sized businesses – has today announced the appointment of Richard Davies as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

In this role, Richard will be responsible for leading the Bank as it scales to become a major force in serving British businesses, delivering the funding, technology and expertise needed at what is a crucial time for the British business sector.

corfinancial, a leading provider of specialist software and services to the financial services sector, reports that Edinburgh-based investment manager Baillie Gifford has migrated the processing of its futures transactions to corfinancial’s post-trade system, Salerio.

Finastra announced today that People’s Bank, a retail and commercial bank in Uzbekistan, is deploying Fusion Risk. The technology will automate the bank’s risk management business, enabling it to become more efficient, whilst managing all types of risk including credit, market, operational, liquidity and interest rate.

Curve, the banking platform that consolidates multiple cards and accounts into one smart card and app, has today announced it has partnered with Onfido, the global identity verification and authentication co