A recent press release reports, “Trifacta, the global leader in data preparation, today announced that use of its Wrangler products is increasing among financial services organizations to address increasingly demanding risk and compliance initiatives, such as CCAR, BCBS 239, and AML. Trifacta’s momentum in regulatory reporting illustrates the company’s growing presence in the financial services […]
Oracle Powers the Next Generation of Finance with New Artificial Intelligence Applications
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “To empower the office of the CFO with data-driven insights they need to adapt to change, capitalize on new market opportunities, and increase profitability, Oracle today announced new artificial intelligence-based applications for finance. By applying advanced data science and machine learning to data from the Oracle […]
iovation Study Finds 68% of North American Financial Institutions Plan to Invest in Machine Learning
by Angela Guess A recent press release reports, “iovation, the leading provider of device-based consumer authentication and fraud prevention solutions, today released insights from its latest report conducted in partnership with global research and advisory firm Aite Group, ‘Machine Learning: Fraud is Now a Competitive Issue’. The study centers on the progress toward using machine […]
Equifax Announces Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information
by Angela Guess A recent press release states, “Equifax Inc. today announced a cybersecurity incident potentially impacting approximately 143 million U.S. consumers. Criminals exploited a U.S. website application vulnerability to gain access to certain files. Based on the company’s investigation, the unauthorized access occurred from mid-May through July 2017. The company has found no evidence […]
YCharts Launches YData: Proprietary Data Feeds for Quantitative Traders & Investment Managers
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “YCharts, Inc, a SaaS financial data and investment research platform, today announced the launch and availability of YData, a proprietary data offering that leverages machine learning and natural language processing to build a comprehensive, highly-structured database tailored for data-driven investment professionals. The first data feed available in […]
Breakthrough Argyle Data Application Successfully Predicts Mobile Subscriber Creditworthiness
by Angela Guess According to a new press release, “AI/machine learning company Argyle Data™ has successfully concluded a series of trials with European and Latin American operators, using new algorithms and neural network architectures analyzing real carrier data to accurately predict subscribers’ intention and ability to pay monthly service bills. ‘Our solution is a quantum […]
Orchard Platform and Experian Collaborate to Help Investors Navigate Big Data Challenges
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “Experian® and Orchard Platform, the leading provider of data, technology and software to the online lending industry, have joined together to announce a strategic collaboration that will give institutional investors access to Experian’s depersonalized consumer credit data. Orchard’s institutional clients can use depersonalized credit data for ongoing […]
Government Joins The Finance Sector At The Top Of The Cyber Attack List
by Angela Guess A recent press release out of Dimension Data reports, “New research reveals that cyberattacks on the government sector doubled in 2016, hiking to 14% from 7% of all cyber security attacks in 2015. Attacks on the finance sector also rose dramatically from just 3% in 2015 to 14% of all attacks in […]
Digital Fuel Releases Updates to Cost Model and Data Quality Management
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Digital Fuel today announced updates to its Financial Intelligence product with exciting new data quality management features for IT Finance. Financial Intelligence adds more features to enable IT Finance to quickly identify and fix data quality issues. The new and enhanced data quality management features provide […]
IBM Watson for Cyber Security Beta Program Launches with 40 Clients Globally
by Angela Guess A new press release reports, “IBM Security today announced that global leaders in banking, healthcare, insurance, education and other key industries have joined the IBM Watson for Cyber Security beta program. Sun Life Financial, University of Rochester Medical Center, Avnet, SCANA Corporation, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, California Polytechnic State University, University of […]