FinTech Weekly Issue #406 - AI: Supporter Or Competitor?

Artificial Intelligence

AI is being used by companies across several industries and for countless reasons. Also fintech companies can benefit from artificial intelligence: from cybersecurity to reduced costs, fintech companies can implement AI to reach their goals.

Banking Business

Banking as a Service (BaaS) is a great occasion for companies that want to easily integrate banking services into their models.

Artificial Intelligence Banking Business Opinions

Benjamin Henson, host of the Fintech Insider podcast, invited Lena Hackeloer, Mary Agbesanwa and Ruth Foxe Blader to his recent podcast episode to discuss last week’s news from financial services, fintech and banks – including JP Morgan restricting his staff from using the popular AI bot ChatGPT.

FinTech Jobs

As a member of our team, your main responsibility will be to develop and expand our payment operations function, which involves managing various payment processes across different banking partners and third-party integrated platforms.

FinTech Jobs

Perform statistical analysis to determine Fair Lending regulatory risks associated with CRB and its Marketplace Lending partners in underwriting, pricing, and servicing.

Banking FinTech Jobs

We have built our entire banking platform in house and mostly in Java. We are looking for people who want to work on building the tooling that is used by our engineers on a daily basis.

Business Cryptocurrency

John Ray III, new CEO of FTX who is also leading the FTX debtors, spoke during a House Financial Services Committee, accusing Grayscale. The sister company of FTX, Alameda Research, sued Grayscale Investments for prohibiting shareholders of its Bitcoin and Ethereum Trusts from redeeming their shares.

Banking Business

The fintech firm Griffin is now transitioning from fintech startup to bank. The London-based fintech is officially on the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) registry. This means it can act as a bank, but with some limits. Griffin will begin working with a few customers that will have early access to BaaS products and will prepare for general availability.

Business Future of Work

Fintech layoffs don’t stop. Banking technology company Amount cut off 25% of its workers, about 130 people. These cuts are the second round of layoffs in less than one year.

Artificial Intelligence NFT

Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange, launched a new product on Wednesday called Bicasso. This new product will use AI to turn users’ creations into NFTs. The beta version is limited to 10,000 mints.

Artificial Intelligence

In a recent interview, Satya Mallick, CEO at OpenCV, said he believes that the development of generative AI is a significant innovation. This innovation brings the issue of copyright infringement in AI art, but at the same time, we should consider artificial intelligence as a collaborator that can allow humans to be more productive – and not as a competitor.

Artificial Intelligence

Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, announced the company's latest development in AI powered robots. Musk said that Optimus – the company’s robot – may outnumber humans in the future. He also said Tesla is making significant progress in developing these powered robots and that they are designed to cover numerous tasks. Is this going to create problems in the tech industry?