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B2B Venture Capital: Corporate Social Media, Marijuana Procurement, and Big Data

PYMNTS

This week, the two countries were the only markets that landed on the B2B venture capital board, with funding landing at SaaS, Big Data and procurement startups across a range of industries, from corporate social media management to marijuana procurement. PYMNTS breaks down the $24 million in venture capital raised.

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The growth of data in banking is unstoppable

Accenture

Social media companies may have insight into what is attracting our attention, but banks can see what people are willing to pay for. Accessing this source of Big Data is simply the latest way for banks to deliver on their core promise: to listen to customers, create a…. Banks occupy a privileged and trusted position.

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Fraudsters Target Financial Services with Small Stealth Attacks

Bank Innovation

According to a report by DataVisor– a big data security analytics provider– fraudsters are most active on social media platforms (no surprise there), and have to launch thousands of attacks on the platform in order to make a […].

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Investing Intelligently: Applications of AI, ML & Big Data in Investment Management

Let's Talk Payments

Vast volumes of non-numerical data are generated every year by companies around the world in the form of annual reports and earnings calls. Select applications of NLP in investment management are as follows: Detect change in sentiments:

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Defining Big Data Characteristics – A Data Scientist’s Life Hack

FICO

Now I’d like to describe the capability of developing big data characteristics characteristics from the data, how important this capability is for a financial platform and how banks can use this capability to boost the value received from the data they can access.

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The big data boom – what it means for banking

NCR

Big data has been one of the tech industry’s most popular buzzwords for a few years now. But as the number of data sources grows and technology to process it becomes more powerful, the trend is changing from a nice-to-have addition to becoming an essential part of any company’s offering. Fighting fraud.

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WeTrade Platform's Nasdaq Transfer From OTC Could Raise $121 Million

PYMNTS

Our goal is to provide technical and auto-billing management services for 100 million micro-business online stores in China through big data analytics, machine learning mechanisms, social network recommendations and multi-channel data analysis,” the company said in its filing.