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Finextra TV/cloud

Lessons learnt by fintech firm Kabbage on their AI&ML journey

Kathryn Petralia, Co-Founder & President, Kabbage, gives her View From Sibos on the power and possibilities AI&ML can offer institutions. We learn about her own experiences building and implementing a machine learning solution to benefit small businesses that qualified for the Paycheck Protection Program, a loan offered by the Small Business Administration in the US during the pandemic, and the incentive this provided small businesses to keep their workers on the payroll.

06 October 2020

Finextra TV/payments

Finding new ways to operate & transform with machine learning

Mark Smith, Worldwide Head of Business and Market Development for Payments, Amazon Web Services gives his View From Sibos on the power of AI and machine learning. We learn about how compute power has become more accessible, giving companies the ability to harness the cloud and use AI&ML tools to tackle new issues, the impact COVID-19 has had on your customer’s journey to implementing machine learning workloads, and about the challenges financial institutions are still grappling with around machine learning.

06 October 2020

News/payments

Amazon rolls out palm payment technology

Amazon has unveiled technology that lets shoppers at physical stores pay for their purchases by scanning the palm of their hands.

30 September 2020

Company announcement/payments

Amex rolls out Amazon business cards in UK

American Express today announced the launch of the new Amazon Business American Express Card and the Amazon Business Prime American Express Card for small businesses in the UK.

29 September 2020

Company announcement/payments

Ebanx teams up with Amazon

Ebanx and Amazon announced a partnership in Colombia this Thursday, September 17, 2020, at the chapter one of the Latin America Summit, EBANX annual event about business in the region. Once the solutions are available, Colombian consumers will be able to pay for purchases within Amazon in their local currency and using local payment methods. This is the first step on a strategic expansion of the two companies in the region, as they mentioned at the presentation at the summit.

17 September 2020

News/payments

Standard Chartered introduces Amazon instalment payment programme

Standard Chartered has launched a new instalment payment offering for customers shopping on Amazon in the UAE.

10 September 2020

News/payments

Amazon rolls out pay at pump feature

Car drivers in the US can now use Amazon's Alexa to pay for fuel with a simple voice command.

02 September 2020

News/sustainable

Linux Foundation targets climate risk with open source platform

The Linux Foundation has announced plans to user AI-enhanced open source analytics and open data to tackle climate risk and opportunity.

01 September 2020

News/cloud

Deutsche Bank and Google Cloud agree multi-year deal

German banking giant Deutsche Bank has agreed a multi-year partnership with Google Cloud for the provision and joint development of cloud services.

07 July 2020

Company announcement/payments

Amazon joins Mastercard tokenization initiative

More and more consumers are going online to purchase everything from groceries and food delivery to home improvement goods, apparel and entertainment; as they do, merchants are focused on providing an increasingly seamless experience.

17 June 2020

Company announcement/payments

Adyen adds Amazon Pay to payment suite

Businesses face new challenges every day as they look for ways to increase sales, reduce cart abandonment and improve the customer experience.

16 June 2020

Finextra TV/cloud

Comprehensive Security for Cloud Native Applications

Vinay Venkataraghavan, Cloud CTO for Prisma Cloud at Palo Alto Networks talks about enabling customers to seamlessly enable security controls in their CI/CD process without sacrificing agility and velocity. We learn how Prisma Cloud, the industry's first Cloud Native Security Platform is helping financial services organizations secure any cloud workload throughout the entire DevOps Lifecycle from Build to Ship to Run.

11 June 2020

Finextra TV/security

Improving Customer's Approach to Security & Compliance

Stephen Quigg, Principal Security Solutions Architect, AWS speaks to Hannah Wallace, FinextraTV about what excites him about cybersecurity and his role at AWS Financial Services, how financial services customers are turning to the cloud to improve their approach to security and compliance and how AWS is working with customers when it comes to security best practices.

09 June 2020

News/cloud

Deutsche Bank invites Amazon, Google and Microsoft to pitch for tech overhaul

Deutsche Bank is inviting bids from tech giants Amazon, Google and Microsoft to fix its outmoded technology estate, according to a report from Reuters.

11 February 2020

News

Goldman in talks with Amazon over small business lending

Goldman Sachs is in advanced talks with Amazon to finance small business loans on the e-commerce platform, according to a report in the FT.

03 February 2020

News/payments

Amazon working to connect credit card information to your hand

Amazon is attempting to turn your hand into a credit card, according to the Wall Street Journal.

20 January 2020

Company announcement

Discover cardmembers can now access their accounts through Alexa

Discover announced today that cardmembers can access their credit card accounts with the power of their voices through Amazon Alexa.

10 December 2019

News/retail

CBA puts Amazon lockers in branches

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is installing lockers at several Sydney branches where customers can pick up their Amazon parcels.

25 November 2019

News

'Alexa, when is my water bill due?'

Americans will soon be able to manage their utility bills through Amazon Alexa devices.

29 October 2019

News/payments

A treasurer’s best practice guide to global payment integration

Corporate business success stories can only be achieved if treasury professionals are keenly aware of the payment options, innovations and regulatory changes that are, can and will impact financial operations.

21 October 2019