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IBM launches challenge to Ripple and Swift

03/18/19

The tech company has taken World Wire, its blockchain-based cross-border payments network, live in 72 countries.

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Credit union blockchain consortium enlists IBM to plot expansion

03/15/19

CULedger and the computing giant will work to develop blockchain technologies, create new products and improve existing ones.

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Bankers have another data security issue to worry about

02/15/19

Banks want to encourage innovation by extending access to outside developers, but customer data remains vulnerable while in use by an application.

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Bank automation demand spurs IBM-fintech partnership

02/12/19

As robotic process automation expands into day-to-day lending operations, IBM is teaming up with UiPath, a startup that specializes in the new technology.

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Startups take on stress-testing tech

01/20/19

Fintechs are developing data-crunching, automated products that seek to help banks precisely calibrate capital levels. The banks' goal is to pass stress tests while maximizing returns to investors.

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Is regulators' green light on AML tech a game changer?

12/05/18

Bank and credit union regulators issued a statement giving institutions the go-ahead to try artificial intelligence and other emerging tech to detect money laundering. It's just what some institutions have been waiting for.

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Fighting financial crime without excluding the underbanked

11/06/18

Promontory Financial Group CEO Eugene Ludwig says AI tools can remove the risks — and discrimination — involved in opening the U.S. financial system to newcomers.

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Why IBM's purchase of Red Hat matters to banks

10/29/18

The merger could help make open source and cloud computing more commonplace at banks. But it may have an unintended consequence as well.

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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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Can this tech make banks better at spotting money launderers?

08/16/18

IBM claims that by monitoring customer behavior first and foremost, banks can make suspicious activity reporting far more accurate.

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