Financial services has moved beyond the question of whether AI can perform useful tasks. Banks, insurers and fintechs are now using AI across underwriting, fraud detection, customer service, collections, compliance and product development. The next question is harder. Are these systems changing how financial businesses operate, make decisions and generate value? Recent industry research suggests…
By Phil Chetwynd, Global News Director, AFP The obituaries of news agencies have been written on many occasions over the past two decades. First we were told we were slower than Twitter and that our global network of salaried journalists was redundant because every citizen was a journalist now. Who needs to pay for ethically-produced…
By Branko Brkic, Founder, Project Kontinuum and Tina Brown, editor, author and founder of Truth Tellers, the Sir Harry Evans global journalism summit There is a curious thing about journalism: Everyone seeking power calls us dead but still wants to control it. Authoritarians attack it, oligarchs try to buy it, propagandists mimic it. Powerful tech…
When an insurance company refuses to pay after a collision, the injured person may suddenly face a much harder fight than expected. A Bronx auto accident lawyer can step into that dispute, challenge the insurer’s position, and determine whether its decision holds up under New York insurance rules and the facts of the case. For…
On Monday, September 28, more than 1,000 news organisations in 106 countries will mark World News Day by showing how their journalism makes a difference. Ahead of the day, the campaign has published a strong collection of op-eds from veteran journalists, editors and media leaders, including Tina Brown, Lionel Barber and AFP’s Phil Chetwynd. They…
The French banking group leverages Google Cloud and Gemini AI to streamline operations and drive returns. French banking giant BNP Paribas SA is tying its artificial intelligence investments to well-defined financial targets, most recently projecting $853 million in value creation through its newly announced partnership with Google Cloud. The assigned value is not always fully…
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. President Donald Trump rolled out the literal red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday afternoon, greeting his plane with a military band and a jet flyover at Maryland’s Joint…
Dave Rupert has a new syntax highlighter: MicroLighter. He wrote about the why. There are a bunch of trade-offs with all the technologies that do this job. The trade-offs here seem pretty worth it for a relatively lightweight, infrequent syntax highlighting job. I mean 2 KB as a base library is pretty amazing, with the…
For a stretched team, a free AML course solves two problems at once: the skills gap and the lack of budget to close it. Most compliance functions are leaner than the risk they carry. A handful of people cover onboarding, screening, monitoring, investigations, and reporting for the whole business. And the volume of that work…
By Ritu Kapur As India marked eighty years of independence this August, I found myself grappling with the very idea of “press freedom”. Because who exactly is the “press” anymore? Is it an accredited journalist? The creator livestreaming a police crackdown? The village student demanding her right to education on a mobile phone? Press freedom…