Deutsche Bank asks: why can’t Europe create a post-trade Amazon?
In a recent report about the future of post-trade in a T2S era, Deutsche Bank’s Global Transaction Banking division strikes a note we hear more and more often these days…
Read More Register: who’s telling the truth in Bloomberg’s China spy-chip report?
Chinese government agents sneaked spy chips into Super Micro servers used by Amazon, Apple, the US government, and about 30 other organizations, which included “a major bank”, giving Beijing’s snoops…
Read More WSJ: Facebook wants banks to hand over customers’ financial details
Facebook has asked large US banks to share detailed financial information about their customers, including card transactions and checking account balances, as part of an effort to offer new services…
Read More Amazon machine learning researchers explain how Alexa dialogues
Alexa analyzes the semantic content of utterances according to the categories domain, intent, and slot. “Domain” describes the type of application — or “skill” — that the utterance should invoke;…
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Intelligent automation is the hedge against rise of big tech in finance
Intelligent automation may seem a bit buzz phrase-ish, but it’s a good description of the combination of technologies that are generally accepted as a necessity for financial firms to at…
Read More Tech giants eclipse banks in fintech patent race, report shows
The world’s fifteen largest banks combined own five times fewer fintech patents than IBM, four times fewer than Microsoft and half as many as Google, new research from patent research…
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Capital markets should be watching Alibaba’s Ant Financial very closely (Premium)
Alibaba’s Ant Financial Group is about the most innovative financial services company we’ve seen in quite a while. Although Asian companies have been advanced in offering financial services to their…
Read More FT: financial regulators scrutinize banks’ use of cloud
Financial regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have turned their attention to the cloud, as concerns mount over how to supervise online storage services, which hold information from the…
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