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Artificial Intelligence Shakes-up FintechNEW YORK, February 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- NetworkNewsWire Editorial Coverage: Artificial intelligence ("AI") is an increasingly important part of the financial technology sector, specifically in analyzing stocks and providing insights into the markets that human analysts alone can't make. As such, AI-driven funds hold an increasingly large portion of the market, moving this technology into the mainstream. The result is a large opportunity for investors using this technology or investing in the companies producing it. Significant steps are being taken by companies such as AnalytixInsight (TSX-V: ALY) (OTC: ATIXF) (ATIXF Profile), whose flagship CapitalCube cloud-based analytics empowers investors to evaluate the potential of companies and portfolios. Other companies are also taking note of AI's increasing value. TD Bank (NYSE:TD) has snapped up a young but highly valued AI company as part of a broader AI strategy, while Helios and Matheson Analytics, Inc. (NASDAQ: HMNY) has seen its share price rise as it expands its AI-driven big data strategy. Even Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), owner of the original human-driven reporting and analysis company Reuters, has taken an interest in AI analysis, as has Euronext NV (OTC: EUXTF), a European stock exchange. Big Data Insights AnalytixInsight (TSX-V: ALY) (OTCQB: ATIXF) has taken a leading start in this field, as partially evidenced in its third-quarter revenues of $1.7 million, the highest in the company's history, along with a turn to profit (http://nnw.fm/Gj5jQ). This blockchain technology will also be used to enhance the services provided by Marketwall, a 49% owned subsidiary of AnalytixInsight. Marketwall is preparing to deploy a mobile stock trading and banking app connected to the MarketHub trading platform. Projects such as the Marketwall app have the potential to increase both the insights from the company and its customers' ability to act upon them. Use of the mobile app will generate data on investment patterns, which can in turn be used to power the big data analysis that fuels CapitalCube. The company's analytical potential is further boosted by Euclides Technologies, a subsidiary company focused on Field Service Management software solutions. With worldwide customers representing over 100,000 field service personnel across multiple industries, Euclides Technologies has to work with the growing volume of data generated by that industry. As a result, it is developing analytics to turn big data into useful insights. Strategic Partnerships for Better Analysis The latest development for AnalytixInsight is a distribution agreement with Thomson Reuters (NYSE: TRI), the world's leading source of news and information for professional markets. Thomson Reuters will provide AnalytixInsight with financial data gathered as part of its reporting work, and distribute AnalytixInsight's AI-driven financial research reports. Together, the two companies will create AI research on public stocks, which will be carried on TRI terminals to brokers across North America. It's a move that will boost the profile of AnalytixInsight through association with the historic Reuters brand. The deal with Thomson Reuters reflects the reality of AI's place in fintech. Computer intelligence isn't taking over from human decision making. For the most part, it is providing extra insight for human traders to work with. Systems such as CapitalCube can provide insights that humans can't, but the reverse is also true. It's through combining human and artificial intelligence that companies like AnalytixInsight provides such profitable results. Another of AnalytixInsight's partners is Euronext NV (OTC: EUXTF), a European stock exchange. Euronext now provides access to CapitalCube for its customers, extending the reach of the technology and its personalised reports. The leading Pan-European marketplace, with offices across Europe, Euronext focuses on bringing together buyers and sellers in venues that are transparent, efficient and reliable. Combining exchanges that have been at the heart of European capital markets for centuries, it now combines that sense of tradition with a forward-looking investment in new technologies such as AI. Euronext provides a wide range of data products through its Market Data portfolio, including real-time data feeds and historical and reference information. It is a leading global provider of indices, publishing more than 500 benchmark indices of all sizes and profiles, including the benchmark AEX-Index® and CAC 40® Index, as well as third party and partner indices. These provide insight into investor sentiment and the performance of the Euronext markets. Combined with the insights provided by CapitalCube, it gives a wide range of insights to subscribers. Applying AI Elsewhere TD Bank Group (NYSE:TD) has also shown a great interest in developing AI as part of its fintech portfolio. Its acquisition in January of Layer 6 Inc., a Toronto-based AI firm, is only the latest in a series of such moves. TD has collaborations with the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, leading conversational AI provider Kasisto, and retail giant Amazon. This has allowed it to deploy AI not only in market analysis but also in customer relations, providing faster, more accurate service. Financial interest in AI beyond fintech is reflected in the rise in shares of Helios and Matheson Analytics (NASDAQ: HMNY) when its Zone Technologies subsidiary announced the completion of beta testing of proprietary AI technology. Created by a team headed by Dr. E.G. Rajan, who has spent over 30 years researching AI and machine learning, the technology will appear in the company's RedZone Map app, which analyzes recent crime patterns and predicts criminal activity. The Complex Future of Fintech AI AI undoubtedly has a significant place in the future of fintech. The range of companies investing in this technology, together with the positive response of investors to AI announcements, reflects its increasingly important role. AI allows the effective analysis of huge data sets to quickly provide insights that wouldn't be possible just through human judgement. The big steps forward in AI analytics are likely to come from companies with access to large data sets and a broad portfolio of applied analytics. By partnering up with a range of companies on CapitalCube and other products, AnalytixInsight has put itself in a position to be one of those industry-changing companies. 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