Denmark-based Subaio introduced this week that it was teaming up with fellow Danish fintech – and fellow Finovate alum – Aiia. Subaio will leverage its partnership with Aiia to raised assess creditworthiness for its new white label providing. The collaboration will streamline creditworthiness evaluation by way of a mix of Aiia’s entry to monetary information and Subaio’s recurring funds detection know-how.
“To create automation and a product that works for stable credit score scoring throughout industries, we want as stable and deep high quality of information as doable to label the transactions and categorize them afterwards,” Subaio Chief Business Officer Soren Nielsen mentioned. “That’s why we selected Aiia to assist us carry this subsequent thrilling step within the Subaio journey up to the mark.”
In some methods, partnerships like this are being inspired by regulatory selections. The EU’s revised Shopper Credit score Directive of 2021 mandates that monetary providers companies doc buyer revenue and recurring bills earlier than providing financing to assist decrease the variety of non-performing loans.
“With Aiia, Subaio will be capable to supply their clients a hassle-free, cost-efficient and data-driven answer to evaluate creditworthiness,” Aiia SMB & Fintech Director Tanya Slavova mentioned. “With our top quality information in thoughts, this open banking empowerment will grant debtors higher mortgage assessments based mostly on the correct overview of the patron’s precise monetary state of affairs.”
Based in 2016 and headquartered in Denmark, Subaio made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2020 in Berlin. On the convention, the corporate demoed its white label subscription administration service, which provides clients a complete overview of their recurring funds, helps them cancel undesirable subscriptions, and offers notifications to allow clients to keep away from “subscription traps.” The corporate returned to the Finovate stage two years later for FinovateEurope 2022 in London with a demo of its computerized creditworthiness evaluation answer.
Subaio has raised $4.9 million in funding from traders together with International PayTech Ventures. Thomas Laursen is CEO.
Making its Finovate debut at our all-digital FinovateEurope 2021 convention, Copenhagen, Denmark-based Aiia was launched in 2017. A number one open banking platform in Northern Europe, the corporate demoed its account-to-account fee providers at FinovateEurope 2021, displaying how the know-how facilitates every thing from one-off funds for ecommerce to bulk funds for SMEs utilizing a single API. Aiia was acquired by Mastercard within the fall of 2021 for an undisclosed quantity. Rune Mai is CEO and co-founder.
In different fintech information from the Nordics, Increase.ai, a Finovate alum from Norway, introduced that it’s going to carry its conversational AI know-how to Nordic financial institution DNB. Particularly, DNB will use Increase.ai’s know-how to automate greater than half of the financial institution’s chat site visitors with its Aino digital agent. Aino presently automates upwards of 20% of the financial institution’s customer support requests. In line with DNB, a couple of million of its clients have interacted with Aino.
Increase.ai VP of EMEA Sanjeev Kumar praised DNB has “one of many many forward-thinking organizations which might be reaping the advantages of embracing a conversational AI answer.” Kumar highlighted the truth that conversational AI helps unlock employees to allow them to concentrate on higher-order and extra complicated customer support duties. Headquartered in Oslo, DNB is the biggest monetary providers group in Norway. DNB provides a full vary of economic providers, together with loans and financial savings, insurance coverage and pension merchandise, in addition to advisory providers for each retail and company clients.
“Synthetic intelligence is a crucial a part of our digital technique,” DNB SVP and Head of IT Rising Applied sciences Jan Thomas Lerstein mentioned. “In leveraging AI, our purpose is to revitalize our worth chains, creating higher service for our clients and, after all, worth for the financial institution.” Lerstein added that DNB is evaluating different AI-enabled options together with voice APIs to assist the financial institution attain “increased ranges of personalization.”
Increase.ai made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall in New York in 2019, demoing its digital agent know-how. Based in 2016 and headquartered in Sandnes, Norway, the corporate launched a brand new CEO – Jerry Haywood – within the fall of 2022. Haywood took over the place from founder and former CEO Lars Selsås, who will concentrate on product growth and innovation going ahead.
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