Similar to the largest US institutions, European banks have a strong interest in exploring the impact of AI on business functions. The US market, however, seems to be far more active in areas beyond virtual assistants and chatbots, while European banks are heavily focused on customer-facing interfaces. In fact, a study of 34 major banks across several geographies (US, EU, Singapore, Africa, Australia, India) found that 27 out of these 34 banks have implemented AI in their front-office functions in form of a chatbot, virtual assistant, and digital advisor.

IdeaCarrot is excited to announce the launch of its new Award-based Crowdsourcing and Open Innovation platform. The company works to connect innovative companies with Creative Crowd, Customers and Employees to generate ideas, exchange insights and work on brainstorming new and innovative products. Providing a platform for Co-creation that is Rewarding and Data-Driven, IdeaCarrot is taking open innovation to new levels.

Aeris, a technology leader in the Internet of Things (IoT), today announced it has published a white paper written by a leading IoT analyst firm, Strategy Analytics, which documents how the architecture of the Aeris® Mobility Platform (AMP) provides unique advantage

Bynder, the global leader in digital asset management (DAM), today announced a new Marketplace integration with Hootsuite, the world's most widely used social media management platform. The integration connects Hootsuitedashboards with creative assets stored in Bynder's portal, enabling users to easily access files for social media content development without the need to download, resize and re-upload each file.

This morning, Mastercard announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2018. Our teams delivered a strong start to the year, with net revenue growing 27 percent on a currency-neutral basis. Our underlying fundamentals were also solid, with volumes up double-digits in most markets and cross-border volume growing 21 percent.

On June 6-7, London will see Blockchain International Show, major large-scale cryptocurrency event in Europe.

What is waiting for you?

• two days of experts’ presentations and major corporations’ developments;
• 60 speakers from all over the world;
• 100 exhibitors;
• 2000 participants.

The event will be held for two days and will consist of two parallel sections, one dedicated to financial and regulatory questions, and another – to developments, tokenization, and ICOs.

Cloud security pioneer, Cryptomathic, today announces an important update to Crypto Service Gateway (CSG 3.10), its popular crypto control center, which offers cloud-enabled enterprises and service providers a single interface through which they can deliver and manage all the crypto-security functions that secure their data and applications, both on-premise and in the cloud.

Merchants across the globe consider the increase of fraud – both in terms of number and sophistication – as one of their main concerns. No wonder: across the industry, they lose an average of 1.5% of annual revenue or 29 bn USD to fraud. Applying strict rules to block suspicious transactions is not the right answer, as it may backfire: 6 out of 10 consumers never return to a merchant who blocked their transactions. Where most payment providers use conventional built-in fraud engines, SIX Payment Services now launches a revolutionary product based on artificial intelligence (AI).  

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW), a leading global provider of real-time electronic payment and banking solutions, today announced that Erste Bank Hungary (EBH), is leveraging  ACI’s UP portfolio of solutions to drive its open banking strategy, support new revenue streams and at the same time fully meet

Saxo Payments Banking Circle, the global scale financial utility, has won its fourth award of 2018. Cementing its position as an innovative and ground-breaking payments provider, it has been named Best B2B Payments Company in the FinTech Breakthrough Awards.

The FinTech Breakthrough Awards, now in their third year, recognise the top companies and products in the financial services and technology industry. In 2017, Banking Circle won the Best B2B Payments Platform award.