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Watch our pitch at FIBC 2018 @Tokyo

Thank you FIBC (Financial Innovation Business Conference) for giving AIZEN this great opportunity to showcase our services in the Japanese market last week. Watch our 7min pitch below: “Advanced Financial Assistant System in Retail Banking and Insurance” AIZEN provides a real-time AI financial platform, ABACUS, leveraged by expert knowledge and specialized know-how in AI and finance. ABACUS is specialized for retail banking and insurance, helping users automate key business value chains. Our automatic credit cycle control module allows banks to easily monitor, predict and control the entire personal loan portfolio in a single platform. ABACUS has high scalability with an ease of expansion into other business applications, functions and portfolios. Abacus is implemented in one of the largest banks in Korea, with $400B assets and $5B of personal loan assets primarily in 2017. 「リテールバンキングや保険業務向けの先進的なファイナンシャルアシスタントシステム」  AIZENは、AIやファイナンスに関する専門的なノウハウや知識を活用したリアルタイムAIファイナンシャルプラットフォーム“ABACUS”を提供します。ABACUSはリテールバンキングや保険業務に特化し、それらの重要なビジネスバリューチェーンの自動化を支援します。私たちの自動化されたクレジットサイクルコントロールモジュールは、銀行の業務担当者がパーソナルローンポートフォリオ全体を一つのプラットフォームで監視、予測、制御することを容易にします。 ABACUSはスケーラビリティに優れ、他のビジネスアプリケーションやファンクション、ポートフォリオに容易に拡張することができます。 ABACUSは韓国の大手銀行に採用され、主として4000億ドルの資産や50億ドルのパーソナルローンを扱っています

10 new Fintech Startups for Accelerator Programme in Hong Kong

Standard Chartered and SuperCharger, a Fintech accelerator based in Hong Kong and Malaysia, revealed 10 finalists for its third programme in Hong Kong at the Fintech Finals 2018. SuperCharger pooled 277 applications from 43 countries, a record number that reflects the appeal of Hong Kong as a base for Fintech companies. Of the application pool, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most popular technology sub-sector, followed by Regulatory Technology (RegTech). The majority of the cohort are revenue-generating, mature-stage companies seeking to expand into Asia. Standard Chartered, the Main Partner of SuperCharger who has supported the programme since its founding, welcomes the new cohort. With its focus on human-centered banking, Standard Chartered is excited to explore the solutions developed by the cohort to elevate its banking services to the next level. Carol Hung, Chief Information Officer of Standard Chartered Hong Kong said:“Our partnership with SuperCharger has been a great success in the past two years. Our deep experience in banking, combined with innovative ideas from Fintech companies, has created opportunities for the bank to deliver more cutting-edge technologies and services for our customers. We are very excited to be the Main Partner of the programme and look forward to working with the top finalists this year.” SuperCharger complements Hong Kong’s innovation agenda by connecting leading local and global Fintech companies with financial institutions. The local authorities have been actively facilitating Hong Kong’s transition into smart banking in an effort to build the city as a global Fintech hub. InvestHK, as one of the Hong Kong’s main drivers of Fintech initiatives, has assisted numerous Fintech companies to establish their presence in Hong Kong in addition to hosting key entrepreneurship events such as the upcoming StartmeupHK Festival 2018 and the annual Hong Kong Fintech Week. Charles D’Haussy, Head of Fintech, InvestHK said:“SuperCharger’s programme is a perfect example of Hong Kong’s organic Fintech ecosystem. Led by the private sector and supported by Government, this cohort of companies now have the opportunities to thrive in an environment highly conducive to expanding and scaling.” Janos Barberis, Founder of SuperCharger said: “We are proud to advance the regional Fintech agenda. Thanks to our team’s effort and the continuous support from Standard Chartered. Our third cohort represents an ideal mix of companies that can deliver immediate benefits to retail consumers as well as support Hong Kong’s vision of smart banking.” The 10 finalists for SuperCharger 3.0 are (alphabetical order):

Featured in APAC CIO Outlook ‘Top 25 FinTech Companies 2017’

Artificial Intelligence for better Banking PracticesAIZEN is proud to announce that it is featured in APAC CIO Outlook’s ‘Top 25 FinTech Companies 2017’.This magazine, aimed at CIOs worldwide, gives a comprehensive view of the industry and its immense potentialities.The banking industry has always been seeking new technology for the last few des. Banks now start to realize the importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to incorporate into their business processes. Especially in Retail Banking sector, there are huge opportunities to improve the efficiency of the process, by combining banks’ data, business-customized algorithms, and by improving processing power.Due to the benefits from AI technology, strong ands are expected across the industry, at the same time, shortage of supply is also expected for the foreseeable future. Banks are trying either to hire AI expertise or to train Bankers to learn AI. However, finding an expert in both areas takes substantial resources. AIZEN Global based in Korea uses AI dels in key functionalities in real-time, applied for U$400B size of financial institutions with its ABACUS platform.“In the retail banking sector, huge opportunities can be created if data scattered around the organization is gathered in one platform.”says Jung Seok Kang, CEO of AIZEN Global. “Like key autonomous vehicle technology is changing the automobile industry, our vision is to provide key autonomous technology in Finance by applying AI to core business decision-making process.” continues Mr.Kang. Currently AIZEN’s AI business service is offered as an on-premises basis, and is actively working to transform it into a Cloud platform.The firm’s ABACUS AI platform specializes in retail banking and insurance, helping them automate and improve efficiency in key business value chains. Today, most banks continue to use legacy systems that are often off-limits to providers. ABACUS, however, allows for smooth implementation into the bank’s legacy systems. The platform uses an API structure that helps the banks to interact with its database, which is kept on-premises so that the legacy systems can just hook into it to upload the data. ABACUS then extracts the variables from the data to create derivative parameters that are based on the existing parameters set by the bank.On top of private sector, AIZEN provi dels for the Korean government’s guaranteed loan program. The government spends around $400 million per annum to support the low-income profile through traditional banking system. From the bank’s perspective, even if the loan defaults, the government will provide funds to them, which can prove to be costly for the latter. AIZEN creates sophisticated predictive models for the program which helps the government in either reducing its expenditure or utilizing the same amount of money for expanding a beneficial loan program which can help the people. AIZEN sees that almost all countries face the same issue.AIZEN is ahead of the competition in terms of technology, experience and its talent eco-system. It has implemented its AI system into one of Korea’s largest banks, with $400 billion in assets. By applying AI predictive models in their core value chain using AIZEN ABACUS, to the value chain, partner bank cut its data analysis time, improved acceptance rate and created new business process using AI predictive models. Multiple business applications is under developing.AIZEN has a lot of potential to diversify its business applications, functions, and portfolios. The firm is currently focusing on the personal lending space which has been valued at $5 billion, and as it is working on standardizing its products, it will increase the ease of expansion into other products like mortgages, small and medium-sized enterprise loans and car loans. The firm is moving to Asset Management and Digitized Bank using same AI technology. AIZEN is either creating or merging small-sized banks and converting them into digitized banks. The organization is also improving its algorithm to have it standardized to scale up, which will also allow for functionally expanding its service model.