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Commonwealth Bank launches chatbot banker

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2018
... Bank customers can now complete more than 200 banking tasks using a newly-launched chatbot. Leveraging artificial intelligence, the bank has launched Ceba, a 24/7 chatbot capable of recognising about 60,000 variations of questions regarding the 200 tasks. ...

Venture capital sector booming but needs greater government support

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
Millennial super fund Spaceship, artificial intelligence and machine learning companies were among the beneficiaries of Australia's booming venture capital market in 2017, but two industry bodies have called on the Government to increase its support ...

ANZ Wealth tests AI-driven underwriting

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
ANZ Wealth is exploring artificial intelligence opportunities to improve its underwriting processes. The collaboration with the Advanced Analytics Institute at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS AAi) will use machine learning and big data to develop ...

Siri and Alexa: The future of banking?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
Using artificial intelligence to do all your personal and business banking from the comfort of your own home may be closer than you realise, NAB predicts. NAB executive general manager, digital and innovation Jonathan Davey said the proliferation of ...

International automotive alliance launches new VC fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... in year one - is targeted at fostering development in mobility, autonomous vehicles, connectivity and artificial intelligence. Ownership of the fund is divided across Renault (40%), Nissan (40%) and Mitsubishi Motors (20%). The fund's first investment ...

AustralianSuper embraces goals-based advice

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 JAN 2018
... said. The new approach will be rolled out across all of the super fund's advice channels, including via artificial intelligence in the form of a new chatbot. With most people now unable to differentiate between a chatbot and a live consultant, Blackmore ...

Advice industry must think bigger: Netwealth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2017
... that was put in place three, four, five years ago," Heine said. Respondents didn't consider blockchain, artificial intelligence or Know Your Customer (KYC) technologies to be gamechangers, despite the world's biggest companies already using them to great ...

Social media boosting super fund engagement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017
... the short-term, funds continue to explore digital tools, including technologies such as chat-bots and artificial intelligence, but there is a realisation that technology for its own sake is not the goal." Given the limited resources, only those technologies ...

The age of algorithmic advice

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... social and real-time financial context and feed it into the technology. Pefin, touted as the world's first artificial intelligence adviser, estimates human beings over a lifespan have between five to eight million data points based on every decision ...

Aussie fintech usage surges

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... currencies, big data and analytics, and social and B2B networks. Fintech Hyper Anna for example, is an artificial intelligence system that answers simple business queries via data analysis. Another is Coinbase, a bitcoin wallet and platform where merchants ...