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InsurTech聽Qoala聽has raised $47 million in a funding round led by聽PayPal Ventures聽and聽MassMutual Ventures.聽The Series C round,聽announced聽Wednesday March 27 , will let the Malaysia-based Qoala expand its embedded insurance business across Southeas stanley nz t Asia.聽 The investment will also empower Qoala to intensify its tech-driven initiatives, seamlessly integrate artificial intelligence across all channels, and elevate the experience of customers, agents, and partners, PayPal said stanley cupe in a news release. Further, Qoala will leverage the funds to explore new products and channels for its agent platform, while accelerating growth by exploring strategic acquisitions and partnerships across all verticals, PayPal added.聽Other recent PayPal Ventures investments include its participation earlier this month in local payments platform聽PPROs聽$93 million funding round. A week later, it took part in the $24 million聽Series B round聽for digital payments platform聽NX Technologies.聽PYMNTS looked at the use of artificial intelligence AI technology in the insurance industry last month in an interview with聽Heather Wilson, CEO of聽CLARA Analytics. AI is the decision support for that adjuster that is dealing stanley termoska with some very complex claims, said Wilson, who spoke with PYMNTS for the AI Effect series. 鈥?The models never sleep, and they are there to help the adjustor by surfacing information that the human in the loop may not see with the human eye. Wilson said AI is to claim management as GPS navigation syst Hssm EU Will Not Implement Digital Tax, Agrees To Internet Tax Reform

Wells Fargo warned late last week that a deeper dive into its sales practices raises the possibility for a significant increase in the identified number of potentially unauthorized accounts 聽鈥?including, potentially, a further dip in Wells Fargos stocks.Citing a 10-Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC , Seeking Alpha reported news that the bank said the increased fake accounts could result in legal costs that exceed the amount it had set aside. We do not expec stanley us t any incremental customer remediation costs as a result of these efforts to have a significant financial impact on the company, 聽Wells Fargo聽added, according to the report. Wells Fargo also said its adding three more years to the review period that covered May of 2011 to the middle of 2015. The expansion was so that the consent order, which calls for the period to be from January of 2011 to September of 2016, would be covered. The repor stanley website t noted the bank is also looking at accounts from 2009 to 2010. Last year, Wells Fargo was the subject of a huge scandal in which employees had opened a slew of fake accounts in the retail banking units. That resulted in a record fine, the ousting of key executives 鈥斅爄ncluding the CEO 鈥斅燼nd an overhaul of the corporate culture at the company. The scandal has also hurt Wells Fargos stock price and reputation. The latest revelatio kubki stanley n comes as the embattled bank is facing calls from lawmakers to oust board members after a new incident of fraud, in which customers complai