Microsoft

190 results about this entity

Period: 05 Apr 2018 - 30 Apr 2024

/cloud

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft cloud duopoly to be investigated by Ofcom

Historically, it could be argued that financial institutions were beholden to pick between AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure for all workloads due to availability, but with other smaller cloud providers offering private cloud fabrics, financial organisations are considering hybrid or multicloud options. However, Ofcom has an alternative view.

/retail

UOB trials Microsoft 365 Copilot generative AI tool

Singapore-based bank UOB is set to trial Microsoft 365 Copilot, a generative AI-powered productivity tool, with several hundred employees.

/devops

Finastra and Microsoft ink deal to modernise trade platforms

Finastra today announced a multi-year agreement with Microsoft focused on trade platform modernisation to address evolving corporate customer expectations.

/payments

Big names join Brazil's CBDC pilot phase

Brazil's central bank has picked 16 proposals - from firms including Nubank, Microsoft, Visa and SETL - for the pilot phase of its Drex CBDC project.

/crypto

Microsoft and Aptos Labs partner to combine blockchain and AI for banks

Microsoft has teamed up with Aptos Labs on an effort to combine the power of AI and the blockchain to drive web3 into the mainstream.

/devops

LSEG and Microsoft join forces to build generative AI models

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and Microsoft are partnering with banks to form customised generative AI models.

/payments

Microsoft adds more PayPal options

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), today announced Microsoft's integration of PayPal's Pay Later solution in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy.

/payments

Exploring the Impact of Data and AI in Digital Banking

Sophia Wikander, General Manager, Financial Services, Western Europe, Microsoft, speaks at EBAday 2023 about the impact of data and AI in digital banking on customers, strategies for banks to maintain competitiveness and improve customer satisfaction, and approaches for optimising key opportunities.

/wholesale

Microsoft and Barclays test analog optical computer

Microsoft has enlisted Barclays to help it test the world’s first analog optical computer that uses photons and electrons to process continuous value data.

/cloud

Highlighting Industry Trends in Cloud and SaaS Adoption Strategies

Speaking at TCF 2023, Prema Varadhan, President Product and Chief Operating Officer, Temenos, & Bill Borden, CVP, Financial Services, Microsoft, discuss Cloud and SaaS adoption, how to help banks migrate to the cloud and the ways cloud technology can help meet business and ESG goals.

/cloud

NayaOne goes live on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

NayaOne, the global digital transformation platform and digital sandbox provider, today announced the availability of the NayaOne digital sandbox in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure.

/cloud

BioCatch now available on Microsoft’s Cloud for Financial Services

BioCatch, a global leader in fraud detection, today announced the global expansion of its behavioural biometric intelligence solutions in collaboration with Microsoft and is now available as an offering for Microsoft’s Cloud for Financial Services (FSI Cloud).

/people

Microsoft appoints Theo Michalopoulos as general manager, Financial services for the UK

Microsoft has appointed Theo Michalopoulos General Manager, Financial Services for the UK.

/cloud

SymphonyAI collaborates with Microsoft Azure AI for generative AI

SymphonyAI, a leader in high-value enterprise AI SaaS for strategic industries, announced today a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to enhance its portfolio of vertical AI software applications using Microsoft Azure AI, including Azure OpenAI Service and Azure Cognitive Search.

/regulation

Biden and Harris address AI regulation with BigTech CEOs

US President Joe Biden met with CEOs of several leading tech firms to discuss the dangers of rapid artificial intelligence (AI) adoption.

/payments

Stripe to power Microsoft Teams payments for businesses

Microsoft has teamed up with Stripe to let North American businesses accept payments directly in Microsoft Teams.

/retail

Santander and Microsoft launch AI challenge

Banco Santander has teamed up with Microsoft and the Oxentia Foundation on a global challenge for entrepreneurs using AI to make a "positive impact on society".

/wholesale

Reltime scales Web3 financial services ecosystem globally with Microsoft

Reltime, a global leader in Web3, Layer 1 Proof of Authority Blockchain and Metaverse financial services platform has been selected by Microsoft’s Global Startups Program.

/payments

AmEx taps Microsoft for expenses tool

American Express (NYSE: AXP) is expanding its decades-long relationship with Microsoft to develop a suite of solutions built on Microsoft Cloud and AI technologies focused on reducing business travel friction for employees and businesses.

/cloud

MSCI taps Microsoft Azure for investment intelligence platform

Investment analysis and index firm MSCI has unveiled an integrated platform built on Microsoft Azure to give investors access to content across its portfolio of products.