Amazon

Amazon, Google Cloud, IBM Watson, Microsoft Azure, Topbots

Machine learning as a service (MLaaS) is an umbrella definition of various cloud-based platforms that cover most infrastructure issues such as data pre-processing, model training, and model evaluation, with further…

Lessons from gaming: Google’s Stadia and Microsoft’s xCloud show a potential fintech business model

July 22, 2019

Josh Galper

Cloud, Fintech, Technology

Amazon, cloud, gaming, Google, Microsoft, Netflix, technology, topstory

Big tech firms have launched business models to become the Netflix of gaming. Instead of buying a game and playing it on a console at home, users would have a…

Deutsche Bank asks: why can’t Europe create a post-trade Amazon?

June 10, 2019

Big Data, Technology

Amazon, bigtech, CSDs, Custodians, Deutsche Bank, Europe, T2S

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…

Register: who’s telling the truth in Bloomberg’s China spy-chip report?

October 7, 2018

Amazon, Apple, AWS, Bloomberg, China, cybersecurity, hardware, Super Micro, The Register

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…

WSJ: Facebook wants banks to hand over customers’ financial details

September 29, 2018

Amazon, bigtech, data management, Facebook, Google

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…

Amazon machine learning researchers explain how Alexa dialogues

September 5, 2018

Amazon, chatbots, machine learning

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;…

Intelligent automation is the hedge against rise of big tech in finance

August 23, 2018

Automation, Technology

Amazon, artificial intelligence, Big Tech, Google, Intelligent Automation, Robotics Process Automation

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…

Tech giants eclipse banks in fintech patent race, report shows

August 2, 2018

Alibaba, Amazon, BAML, BNP Paribas, Cipher, Deutsche Bank, fintech, Google, IBM, Microsoft

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…

Capital markets should be watching Alibaba’s Ant Financial very closely (Premium)

July 12, 2018

Josh Galper

Asia, Cloud, Credit Exposure, Technology

Alibaba, Amazon, Ant Financial, Ant Financial Group, Facebook, Google, topstory

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…

FT: financial regulators scrutinize banks’ use of cloud

April 30, 2018

Amazon, Bank of England, cloud, Google, Microsoft, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Prudential Regulation Authority