Author: hbrunken

At YUKKA Lab, we’re constantly working on cutting edge solutions to solve problems around unstructured data and its application in industry. Here's what Dean Shaff, one of our YUKKA Lab Data Scientists, discovered while solving a key technical challenge on the road to implementing one of our most exciting new features. A must read for any data scientist out there working with ElasticSearch. https://medium.com/yukkalab/efficient-float-array-storage-on-elasticsearch-a098f937bbc2 ...

Am 21. Oktober startete der Batch 5 des Wiener weXelerate, am 29. Jänner wurde die aktuelle Runde des Innovationsnetzwerks erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Dabei lief in diesem Batch vieles anders als in vorherigen Runden. Bereits in der Auswahl ist der frühere Plan, Corporate-Startup- Matches zu suchen, weiterentwickelt worden: Denn nun wurden Startups und Projekte in den Fokus gerückt, die mit mehreren Corporate Partnern gemeinsam arbeiten können – um so mehr Synergien zu ermöglichen.  Wien , wir kommen wieder! https://brutkasten.com/wexelerate-batch-5/ ...

With the 2020 US presidential election just around the corner, we take a final look at the sentiment surrounding the two presidential candidates. As we can see in the figure down below, throughout the past month, the sentiment lead has switched regularly between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. However, since October 25th, Biden's sentiment has managed to stay ahead of that of Trump. Furthermore, Joe Biden is recently getting more attention in the news as well, a relevant factor that often goes unrecognized. The number of news that talk about...

12 Start-ups haben es ins Scale-up-Programm des Fintech-Inkubators F10 geschafft. Über 80 Teams hatten sich für die Teilnahme am 3-monatigen Bootcamp beworben. Das Scale-up-Programm soll den Teilnehmern die Möglichkeit bieten, Prototypen und Proof-of-Concepts zu entwickeln sowie mit Schweizer Banken, Versicherern und der Börsenbetreiberin Six zusammenzuarbeiten, wie es in einer Mitteilung heisst. https://www.netzwoche.ch/news/2020-04-24/diese-12-start-ups-kommen-unter-die-fittiche-von-f10-fintech ...

Insurtech Europe, Plug and Play's Insurtech platform based in Munich, Germany, announced the 14 startups that have been selected for its third batch. The winter program aims to facilitate opportunities for pilots, POCs, and new relationships between the selected batch startups and Plug and Play's global ecosystem with a special focus on the corporate partners Munich Re, Generali, Versicherungskammer Bayern, Talanx, Irish Life, Willis Towers Watson, Swiss Re, Covea and the most recently, Baloise. https://www.finanzen.net/nachricht/aktien/plug-and-play-insurtech-selects-14-startups-for-batch-three-of-their-insurtech-europe-program-8062492 ...

Ever heard of Ping An or Zhong An? Two Chinese companies that they are on the verge of taking over the global lead when it comes to artificial intelligence in Financial Services industry. When Oliver Berchtold and Andreas Pusch arrived back from FinovateAsia in Hong Kong they did not only bring the Best of Show award with them but a bunch of new insights and manifold impressions on the Financial Services industry in Asia. Oliver referred in his article on LinkedIn to a keynote held by Paul Schulte, Founder & Editor...

News from the YUKKA Lab office! YUKKA Lab made it into the news on many online finance portals, such as finews, FONDS professional and STOCK WORLD. Read our press release here: Switzerland’s Cramer private bank is expanding the product portfolio based on fintech technology. Together with a Berlin-based laboratory, the bank launched an application that is designed to detect swings at financial markets. Banque Cramer, based in Geneva, added a risk indicator to the investment application Prime Selector launched at the end of last year, according to a statement released today. The company...