In an American Banker op-ed the author acknowledges the amazing potential of AI; it has been said that it could...
Federal banking regulators issued a cloud security reminder as most banks have shifted their employees to work from home mode;...
As more financial services firms beginning using Google, Amazon and Microsoft for cloud based services regulators are starting to take...
The company's speech recognition technology has reported a 5.5% error rate in speech recognition, breaking the previous speech recognition error rate of 5.9% set by Microsoft in October 2016; the current error rate for speech recognition falls just above the newly reported human error rate of 5.1%; the speech recognition error rate continues to be a focus area as speech recognition technology becomes more broadly utilized in consumer electronics and the internet of things. Source
Microsoft has partnered with AMIS and the Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan to form Asia's first blockchain consortium; the partnership will build on the success of Microsoft's Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) on Microsoft Azure which it announced in April; the consortium will focus on blockchain solutions that provide increased efficiency and cost savings for companies in Taiwan. Source
Digital asset services fintech Bakkt has raised a $300mn series B from Microsoft’s venture capital arm M12 and fintech PayU;...
Banks have started to come to terms with the importance of the cloud and what it means to their business;...
Minnesota based Sunrise Bank, like most other banks, needed to make some quick decisions about how they would lend Paycheck...
Mastercard and Microsoft have announced a collaboration around digital commerce, startup innovation and financial inclusion; the collaboration will help Mastercard’s...
At the Ethereum Developer Conference on November 9, Microsoft announced that it would offer blockchain building blocks as part of its Azure cloud hosting platform; the Ethereum Blockchain as a Service (EBaaS) offering allows developers to quickly launch an Ethereum environment which includes code building blocks for SmartContracts and a semi-private testing environment with a blockchain which then can be migrated to the public Ethereum environment; the offering is in partnership with development house ConsenSys. Source