08-12-2014, 04:19 PM
AI with Big Data, are getting popular in many sectors. I reckon the personalized info presented are welcomed, but not the "advice" given by the machine...
UBS turns to Artificial Intelligence to advise wealthy clients
SINGAPORE (Dec 8): UBS Group AG, facing the threat of competition from Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., has turned to a Singapore-based technology company that uses artificial intelligence for help delivering personalised advice to the bank’s wealthy clients.
Sqreem Technologies beat some 80 teams competing in the Innovation Challenge, a contest organised by Switzerland’s biggest bank that offered $40,000 and a potential contract to the winner. Their task: Extract the information most relevant to an individual client from an explosion of data and deliver this tailored content to clients’ mobile phones, iPads and other digital devices.
“Banking is one of the most rudimentary industries when it comes to digitalisation,” Dirk Klee, chief operating officer for UBS wealth management and responsible for digital initiatives, said in an interview.
“EBay, Amazon - everything is getting more and more digital. The question is how we translate this into a similar experience for our clients.”
Big global banks like UBS are turning to technology to mine data for insight on its customers that could help lenders stay competitive in the digital era. The introduction of mobile payment systems offered by Internet giants like Google Inc. and Apple Inc. has alerted traditional banks to the potential threat from tech companies with vast databases and the knowhow to exploit them.
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http://www.theedgemarkets.com/sg/article...hy-clients
UBS turns to Artificial Intelligence to advise wealthy clients
SINGAPORE (Dec 8): UBS Group AG, facing the threat of competition from Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., has turned to a Singapore-based technology company that uses artificial intelligence for help delivering personalised advice to the bank’s wealthy clients.
Sqreem Technologies beat some 80 teams competing in the Innovation Challenge, a contest organised by Switzerland’s biggest bank that offered $40,000 and a potential contract to the winner. Their task: Extract the information most relevant to an individual client from an explosion of data and deliver this tailored content to clients’ mobile phones, iPads and other digital devices.
“Banking is one of the most rudimentary industries when it comes to digitalisation,” Dirk Klee, chief operating officer for UBS wealth management and responsible for digital initiatives, said in an interview.
“EBay, Amazon - everything is getting more and more digital. The question is how we translate this into a similar experience for our clients.”
Big global banks like UBS are turning to technology to mine data for insight on its customers that could help lenders stay competitive in the digital era. The introduction of mobile payment systems offered by Internet giants like Google Inc. and Apple Inc. has alerted traditional banks to the potential threat from tech companies with vast databases and the knowhow to exploit them.
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http://www.theedgemarkets.com/sg/article...hy-clients
