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Venture capital firm plants $1.8m seed for Honee

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... individual stylist's calendars. Honee is also growing salon owner's business confidence through its innovative artificial intelligence system called Nectar. Salon owners can chat to Nectar 24/7 to learn about how their business is performing, act on ...

Financial services pay top dollar for compliance, IT skills

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... customers. Other areas of technology that are expanding include cybersecurity, robotic process automation and artificial intelligence. Conversely, lower-level tech roles such as manual testing and helpdesk are in decline, as they are increasingly outsourced ...

Cultural bias heavily discounts female artwork

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... avoid associating fake artist names with real paintings, the researchers 'created' the paintings using an artificial intelligence application that converts a photo into a painting. Most people rated the artworks equally, but wealthy individuals who visit ...

Institutions urged to overhaul outdated risk management practices

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... example, pulse checks of attitudes, or automated analysis of trends on social media, including the use of artificial intelligence to assess attitudes as they are expressed - but would need to be much more sensitive and relevant than current measures," ...

Zurich hires IOOF executive for new role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... the Zurich executive, and our business as a whole, in providing a combination of deep expertise and external market intelligence, along with excellent fund manager relationships," Bailey said. "Having dedicated executive team focus for the Investments ...

AI threatens financial services workers: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
An overwhelming number (83%) of Australian financial services workers are concerned artificial intelligence (AI) technology will take over their jobs. That's according to technology and consulting firm Infosys' Leadership in the Age of AI report, which ...

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. ...

Independent expert awaits bank remuneration guidelines

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... on the banks' service promise to their customers," he added. McPhee highlighted the positive results in an Edelman Intelligence survey, which found that about 80% of respondents believed their bank is "becoming more customer-focused," up from 63% in ...

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 ...