Artificial intelligence

How banks can fine-tune regtech (and still reach the underserved)

10/17/18

Banks should work to shield some customers who may otherwise be flagged or blocked by AI-powered safeguards, and consider using alternative data to expand services to the underbanked.

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What BofA has learned from its Erica rollout

10/11/18

Know how many different ways customers can ask a virtual assistant to move money between accounts? The answer is one of Bank of America’s takeaways from a lot of trial and error this year in launching voice-activated services.

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Former SoFi CEO's startup unveils digital home equity loans

10/10/18

Mike Cagney’s current venture, Figure Technologies, is offering consumers the ability to apply online for home equity loans and get funding in as little as five days.

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HSBC hires Goldman exec; high rates may hurt banks’ bottom lines

10/09/18

Several other recent hires may have been an attempt to refute charges it can’t attract top talent; rising rates have helped banks, but a reckoning awaits.

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Big Brother or big help? Banks defend collecting customers' personal data

10/03/18

To personalize products and services, banks are now tracking all sorts of alternative data sources, even the manner in which customers type in mobile banking apps.

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Making business analytics as easy to use as a smartphone

10/02/18

Envestnet|Yodlee wants accessing data to be as simple as selecting a song to play, while bringing institutional analytic power to the bank branch level.

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Hard-won wisdom from AI's early adopters

10/01/18

Executives at Wells Fargo, BBVA Compass, ATB, and Banco Popular share some of the pain points they've encountered as they've implemented artificial intelligence, and how they overcame them.

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The challenge for virtual banking: Getting bots to care

09/28/18

AI-powered assistants will change the customer experience for the better, but first they must achieve a more human level of service, executives said during a discussion at Finovate.

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Banks' long road to retail-ready voice assistants

09/27/18

An all-virtual future remains far off, as conversational programs still aren’t capturing the nuance of speech and chatbots have disappointed many customers.

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How AI helped double volume at this auto lender

09/27/18

The subprime auto lender Prestige Financial Services used machine learning to make more effective lending decisions than its former model.

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