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Financial Management

Astra | September 20, 2022

WeLab, a leading pan-Asian fintech platform, today announced the completion of the acquisition of an Indonesian commercial bank, PT Bank Jasa Jakarta (BJJ), together with PT Astra International Tbk (Astra), one of Indonesia's largest public companies. The completion is marked by the issuance of acquisition approval by the Financial Services Authority (OJK). For this transaction, a WeLab-led consortium, Welab Sky Limited (WeLab Sky), participated in the acquisition together with Astra's s...

Financial Management, Investment Management

Principal Asset Management | January 24, 2023

In order to expand its fintech-enabled model portfolio solution, supported by multi-asset risk analytics and industry-leading client interaction technology, Principal Asset ManagementSM recently announced that it has teamed up with Jacobi Inc., a global provider of investing technology. Principal® gives advisers analytics and tools that will help them serve their clients better in the long run, with a big focus on digital transformation. The company will benefit from Jacobi&...

Citi Commercial | February 07, 2020

Citi Commercial Cards has teamed up with conversational AI firm Interactions to roll out an intelligent virtual agent (IVA) feature to its US call centres. The IVA tool uses Interactions’ Adaptive Understanding technology, which provides a blend of AI and real-time human understanding. With the support of humans, the IVA uses advanced conversational AI to understand languages, accents and dialects as well as to make sense of a customer’s word choice and the respective intent based on...

Financial Management

Stifel | June 08, 2022

Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ACXIT Capital Partners, a leading independent corporate finance and financial advisory firm serving European middle-market clients and entrepreneurs. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. ACXIT Capital Partners, with a team of about 50 professionals, operates primarily out of offices in Frankfurt, Zurich, and Munich. Since its founding in 1999, the firm has successfully complet...