Following the awards ceremony, held at the Insurance AI and Analytics USA Summit, Chicago, the three winners of the Insurance Nexus AI Pioneers Awards have been announced.

The awards were held to showcase and celebrate those companies and individuals who have made the most impact in insurance AI innovation over the past year, with entrants nominated, and voted for, by the industry. The volume of responses was outstanding, with 3,000 votes cast across the three categories.

Quant Insight, the macro analytics firm that applies innovative quantitative techniques to financial markets, today announced the completion of its latest funding round, which included key investments from Alan Howard (Brevan Howard Asset Management) and Jens-Peter Stein (Stone Milliner Asset Management). Over 80% of capital raised came from Qi’s clients in a successful financing round that exceeded the company’s expectations.

Sberbank has launched a service that allows clients to set up automatic repayment of credit card debt. 

Yoyo, Europe’s fastest growing mobile payment, loyalty and marketing platform, has forged a partnership with digital ordering platform Preoday to create a new, integrated way for retailers and caterers to affordably provide pre-ordering services to their customers across the UK. 

Iliad Solutions’ latest release of its t3:Switch software is now available with full support for Real-Time Payments (RTP) and API testing for OpenAPI and REST based initiatives. 

Meet the largest gathering of money transfer providers on the Africa continent at the 7^th RemittanceAfrica Expo (www.RemittanceAfrica.com) that will take place across 23 and 24 of October at the Lagos Oriental hotel with the compelling headline theme ‘Unlocking Opportunities in Money Transfer and Payment systems in Africa’.  The conference will host leading thought leaders in the remittance ecosystem in Africa and beyond.

SmartStream Technologies, the financial Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM^®) solutions provider, today announced Jumhouria Bank, the largest bank and branch network in Libya, has signed a deal forSmartStream’s Corona solution for the delivery of intra-day reconciliations management across cash, cards, branch, central bank and payment transactions.

Richard Price, Head of FSI, UK&I - TIBCO, speaks about how the company helps banks to streamline the customer journey.

Monica Eaton-Cardone, COO of The Chargeback Company highlights the most exciting topics at Money20/20 Europe including some details about newest Chargeback product Intelligent Source Detection (ISD).

Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI) has received 407 applications for the second batch of “Elevator Lab”, RBI’s fintech partnership program. This means an increase of more than twenty per cent compared to the first batch when 336 fintech start-ups used the opportunity for a potential long-term cooperation with the RBI Group and its 16.6 million customers in Austria and the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region.