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Indian Mortgage Fintech Firm Raises $40M to Facilitate Homeownership for Low-Income Groups

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India’s housing loan market faced challenges amid the Covid-19 pandemic but is now showing signs of recovery. With a valuation of US$300 billion, the sector is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 22.5% over the next five years.

However, lower-income groups continue to be underserved, lacking access to long-term credit, including housing mortgages, from established financial institutions.

Addressing this gap is Altum Credo, a housing finance firm based in India. The company recently secured US$40 million in a Series C equity round led by Z3Partners and Oikocredit, with participation from British International Investment, Aavishkaar Capital, and Amicus Capital. Of this amount, US$27 million was raised through equity funding, while the remaining US$13 million facilitated a partial exit for its Series A investors.

Founded in June 2017, Altum Credo leverages technology across its entire loan lifecycle, allowing applicants to apply for loans online. The majority of Altum Credo’s customers, comprising 93%, are first-time homeowners from economically weaker sections and low-income groups.

The fresh funds will enable Altum Credo to boost its assets, currently worth US$100 million, enhance distribution channels, and expand operations. The company aims to extend its footprint into central and northern India in the future.

Beyond India, where the housing loan market is fragmented, startups in Indonesia are also venturing into the mortgage fintech space. Additionally, Singapore-based LXA, focusing on streamlining the mortgage lifecycle, recently raised a US$10 million seed round in late 2023.

Source: techinasia.com

 

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Franklin Templeton Collaborates with Microsoft to Develop Cutting-Edge Financial AI Platform

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Franklin Templeton Teams Up with Microsoft to Develop Advanced Financial AI Platform

Franklin Templeton, an esteemed investment management firm, has announced a strategic partnership with tech powerhouse Microsoft to create an “advanced financial AI platform” tailored for its employees and clients.

Utilizing Microsoft’s Azure AI service suite, Franklin Templeton aims to leverage cutting-edge development tools to realize its vision. This suite encompasses a range of powerful tools, including the OpenAI service and the GPT-4 large language model, alongside AI Search and AI Document Intelligence functions.

With assets under management exceeding $1.6 trillion, Franklin Templeton is poised to revolutionize its operations through this partnership. By rapidly integrating AI into its processes, the firm seeks to enhance the productivity of its sales and marketing teams while providing clients with personalized support. This will be achieved by streamlining structured data and contextual financial information.

Deep Srivastav, Head of AI at Franklin Templeton, elaborates on the platform’s approach, highlighting a multi-layer intelligence strategy where individual AI capabilities are synchronized to create advanced business intelligence.

This initiative underscores Franklin Templeton’s commitment to exploring AI applications in financial services. Notably, the firm recently demonstrated its dedication by supporting Transparently.AI, a Singapore-based AI software vendor, in a $3 million pre-Series A funding round.

Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to solidify its presence in the financial sector. The recent announcement of First Abu Dhabi Bank tapping into Microsoft’s Azure AI services to establish its AI Innovation Hub further emphasizes the tech giant’s pivotal role in shaping the future of finance.

Source: fintechfutures.com

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Fintech Australia Teams Up with Thai Fintech Association to Drive Southeast Asia’s Growth Potential

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FinTech Australia and the Thai Fintech Association have joined forces through the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to promote fintech collaboration between Australia and Thailand.

The MOU was signed in Bangkok, Thailand, by Thai Fintech Association president Chonladet Khemarattana and Brian Collins, deputy chair at FinTech Australia. They were accompanied by a delegation comprising fintech lenders, venture capitalists, corporate innovators, and financial services representatives from Australia and Southeast Asia.

The Australian fintech delegation visited Bangkok for Money20/20 Asia to explore potential partnerships and opportunities in Thailand and the broader Southeast Asian region.

Brian Collins emphasized the significance of collaboration between the two regions, citing Thailand and Southeast Asia as significant growth opportunities for the local fintech sector. He expressed eagerness to enhance outcomes for both regions through further collaboration with the Thai Fintech Association.

FinTech Australia, a member-driven organization dedicated to building an ecosystem for Australian fintechs, has witnessed substantial growth. The Australian fintech industry expanded from a A$250 million industry in 2015 to a A$45 billion industry in 2023.

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese launched Invested: Australia’s Southeast Asia Economic Strategy to 2040 in September 2023, highlighting the digital economy as a key sector for enhancing trade and investment relations with Thailand.

Dr. Angela Macdonald PSM, Australian ambassador to Thailand, acknowledged Thailand’s rapidly growing fintech sector, fueled by significant investment and regulatory support. She emphasized the potential for collaboration between Australia and Thailand to drive innovation in payments, lending, and other fintech domains.

Chonladet Khemarattana, president of the Thai Fintech Association, welcomed the partnership with FinTech Australia, recognizing the tremendous growth potential within the Southeast Asian market. He highlighted the opportunity to drive mutual benefits and foster cross-border synergies, particularly with Thailand emerging as a hub for fintech innovation. Khemarattana expressed readiness to collaborate closely with FinTech Australia to leverage their respective strengths and enhance outcomes for both regions’ fintech ecosystems.

Source: thefintechtimes.com

 

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How Businesses Are Adapting to the Rapid Expansion of Artificial Intelligence

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Issued on behalf of Scope AI Corp.

VANCOUVER, BC, May 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — USA News Group News Commentary – According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) will affect almost 40% of jobs around the world. While still early in the AI revolution, experts are stepping forward to help businesses across a wide variety of industries to embrace it. Analysts at Statista are projecting the Global AI Market will surpass $1.75 trillion by 2030. Now CIOs across multiple sectors are eager to scale their companies’ AI despite current difficulty demonstrating ROI, according to a new survey. Helping to get companies swiftly, safely, and economically on board with AI are a wide variety of tech companies moving things forward with recent developments this past week, including: Scope AI Corp. (CSE: SCPE) (OTCQB: SCPCF), NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA), Snowflake Inc. (NYSE: SNOW), CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRWD), and Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU).

The article continued: Experts are championing the power of progress in AI integration, as it is already being recognized one of the most significant disruptive technology movements in a generation. This wave of integration requires the right help, the right minds, and discernment. 

SCOPE AI PROVIDES CORPORATE UPDATE

Scope AI Corp. (CSE: SCPE) (OTCQB: SCPCF) (FSE: VN8) (“Scope” or the “Company”) today provided an update on new developments of Scope’s artificial intelligence driven recognition technology called GEM (General Enterprise Machine Learning) system. With the latest advancements to Scope’s proprietary technology, Scope’s focus has broadened in addition to past announced realized technology applications to developing a one-stop web solution for developers and individuals, as well as businesses, large and small, to create, build, and use their own image detection, behavior analysis and neural network systems for their customer business case.

Highlights of Scope’s New Developments

●          Broad based one tool solution for businesses to develop their own artificial intelligence object  detection and visual information system.

●          Application will focus on allowing companies to test how visual variations in creatives and user flows affect performance

●          GEM will allow companies in any industry to harness the power of neural networks for their own unique use cases

●          Beta version of new GEM system expected to launch in late May 2024.

Over the last few months, Scope’s management and technology team have devoted a significant amount of time diversifying the GEM system. The new one-tool-solution for businesses to develop their own object detection and visual information system will be offered through a proprietary platform launch by Scope in the second quarter of 2024. In particular, users will be offered the ability to easily render their own neural networks, annotate datasets and verify the inference improvements through various state of the art analytics tools.

The new GEM Platform comes as a SaaS web-application with advanced user management for administrators or supervisors (CRM), enhanced login and account security, as well as full data encryption built natively into the platform. Scope’s initial target market is the advertising, gaming and health care industries. Businesses of any size can easily onboard and start using the intuitive web-interface to build custom solutions for their respective businesses. An advanced Application Programming Interface (API) will also be made available later this year.

The beta version will allow Scope to determine optimal economics for the product offering as well as an initial industry focus. Currently, Scope is contemplating a recurring revenue subscription fee structure and a pay-as-you-play model on the platform in order to best meet the needs of the client in a flexible way. A final decision on a revenue model will be determined after beta testing.

CONTINUED… Read this and more news for Scope AI at:  https://usanewsgroup.com/2024/04/26/the-currency-of-tomorrow-why-investing-in-cutting-edge-ai-recognition-tech-could-mean-big-money/

In other industry developments and happenings in the market this week include:

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA), a pioneer in accelerated computing and the global leader in manufacturing GPUs used in AI infrastructure, recently announced the acquisition of GPU orchestration software provider Run:ai, an Israeli startup that promotes efficient cluster resource utilization for AI workloads across shared accelerated computing infrastructure.

AI deployments for customers are becoming more complex, spreading across cloud, edge, and on-premises data centers. To manage tasks like generative AI, recommender systems, and search engines effectively, sophisticated scheduling is needed. This helps improve performance across the overall system and the underlying infrastructure.

NVIDIA targeted Run:ai for its ability to enable enterprise customers to manage and optimize their compute infrastructure, whether on premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments. Run:ai comes with a client list that includes some of the world’s largest enterprises across multiple industries, which use the Run:ai platform to manage data-center-scale GPU clusters.

Run:ai has been a close collaborator with NVIDIA since 2020 and we share a passion for helping our customers make the most of their infrastructure,” said Omri Geller, cofounder and CEO of Run:ai. “We’re thrilled to join NVIDIA and look forward to continuing our journey together.”

Snowflake Inc. (NYSE: SNOW), a leading data cloud company, recently announced Snowflake Arctic, a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) uniquely designed to be the most open, enterprise-grade LLM on the market. Snowflake Arctic comes with a unique Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, to deliver top-tier intelligence with unparalleled efficiency at scale, and is optimized for complex enterprise workloads, topping several industry benchmarks across SQL code generation, instruction following, and more. Inside of Snowflake will include NVIDIA NIM with NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, vLLM, and Hugging Face, and will also be available on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

“This is a watershed moment for Snowflake, with our AI research team innovating at the forefront of AI,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake. “By delivering industry-leading intelligence and efficiency in a truly open way to the AI community, we are furthering the frontiers of what open source AI can do. Our research with Arctic will significantly enhance our capability to deliver reliable, efficient AI to our customers.”

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRWD), a global cybersecurity leader, recently announced it was named an Overall Leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass, Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) 2024: IAM Meets the SOC. CrowdStrike earned the honors by achieving a Leader position in every category: Product, Innovation, and Market, positioned furthest to the right and highest in Innovation among all vendors evaluated, achieving the overall highest position in the report.

“Adversaries increasingly exploit identities and credentials to ‘log in’ to an environment, move laterally and execute their attacks. ITDR is a critical component of cybersecurity and mitigating risk,” said Raj Rajamani, head of products, CrowdStrike. “By unifying identity and endpoint protection in a single platform, single agent architecture, customers can consolidate point products, drive down costs, and eliminate complexity. Our overall leadership in the report emphasizes our pioneering, platform approach to stop breaches.”

Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU), a leading AI company with a strong internet foundation, recently reached an agreement with Tesla to grant the EV manufacturing giant access to its mapping license for data collection on China’s public roads, according to a report from Reuters. As per the deal, sources say that Baidu will also provide its lane-level navigation to Tesla. In China, any intelligent driving system must secure a mapping qualification to operate on public roads. Foreign companies must collaborate with local partners that hold this license. Baidu is one of about a dozen companies that have obtained this necessary license.

The news of Baidu’s deal with Tesla came just after the announcement of Baidu’s second ERNIE Cup Innovation Challenge, which is open to entrepreneurial teams focused on AI-native applications from around the world.

“In the first ERNIE Cup Innovation Challenge, we received nearly 1000 team registrations,” said Robin Li, Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Baidu. “Baidu provided nearly RMB 100 million (US$13.8 million) in investment support to 15 winning teams and continued to provide comprehensive support in technology, team, and resources.”

Article Source: https://usanewsgroup.com/2024/04/26/the-currency-of-tomorrow-why-investing-in-cutting-edge-ai-recognition-tech-could-mean-big-money/

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