Visa, BILL and Billtrust Launch First Live Pilot for Trusted AI Agent Payments

Visa, BILL and Billtrust announced they have launched the first live pilot to enable trusted AI agents to initiate and complete approved buyer invoice payments end-to-end through supplier portals. Until now, many payment portals relied on human authentication requirements that limited how approved ...

New Relic Report Finds Compliance and AI Governance Drive Observability Demand in Financial Services

New Relic, the intelligent observability platform, released its 2026 Observability Forecast for Financial Services, analyzing the state of observability within the sector. Drawing from 278 financial services IT and engineering leaders and practitioners within a global study of 2,575 respondents, the...

HTEC Report Finds Organisational Barriers Constrain AI Value Despite Rising Investment

HTEC, a global product engineering and AI transformation company, launches The HTEC AI Value Realization Report 2026, revealing a new challenge emerging as organizations move beyond AI experimentation: investment is accelerating faster than many companies’ ability to measure, govern and consis...

Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank Selects Box to Build AI-Ready Content Platform

Box, the leading Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, announced that The Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank, Ltd. (Head Office: Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture; President: Takaharu Hayashi) has selected Box Enterprise Advanced as an AI-ready content platform for the entire bank and has begun rolling out the ...

Aresbank Adopts SymphonyAI AI Platform for Transaction Monitoring

As a specialized corporate and trade finance bank in the MENA region, Aresbank manages risk and moves money across some of the most sensitive trade corridors between Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Operating in a highly regulated environment, Aresbank turned to SymphonyAI, a global leader ...

Financial Institutions Lag on Always-On AI-Driven Compliance: Report

SymphonyAI, a global leader in vertical AI product platforms, and AML Intelligence, the leading source of news and insight for the financial crime compliance community, released the FinCrime Frontier 2026–27 Report, finding that most financial institutions still rely on periodic review cycles ...

eScan Enterprise DLP Helps Financial Institutions Control Sensitive Data Shared with AI Platforms

As financial institutions increasingly adopt generative artificial intelligence (AI) for market research, financial modelling, investment analysis and risk assessment, controlling the information employees share with external AI platforms has emerged as a key data security challenge. A regional inv...

Kyndryl, Incore Bank Use Google Gemini to Automate Customer Risk Assessment

Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, announced the successful completion of a cloud-enabled agentic AI proof of concept using Google’s Gemini models to help Incore Bank accelerate customer onboarding support with a fully automated ...

MindBridge and Fieldguide Partner to Modernize Audits

MindBridge Analytics Inc., the intelligence layer for Augmented Assurance, and Fieldguide, the AI-native platform transforming advisory and audit services through human-AI collaboration, announced a strategic partnership to integrate MindBridge's AI-powered full-population financial analytics d...

Alipay Launches China’s First Full-Stack Agentic Commerce Platform

Alipay launched China’s first full-stack agentic commerce platform at its AI Ecosystem Partner Conference in Hangzhou, providing merchants with the tools to shift from digital operations to AI-powered operations. “Agentic commerce is poised for rapid growth over the next 6 to 12 months....

HSBC to Launch Global AI Centre of Excellence in Singapore in 2026

HSBC plans to launch a Global Artificial Intelligence (AI) Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Singapore in the second half of 2026 to develop AI capabilities that can be scaled across its global network. The CoE will initially focus on enhancing customer wealth journey conversations, developing agentic ...

Genpact Launches Banking Analyst Suite, Agentic AI for Regulated Banking Operations

Genpact, an agentic and advanced technology solutions company, announced Genpact Banking Analyst Suite, an enterprise solution that applies agentic AI to regulated banking operations. Its first module, Genpact Transaction Monitoring Analyst, is now generally available to help banks complet...

Sovos Launches AI-Ready Compliance Network to Support UAE e-Invoicing Mandate

Sovos, the AI-ready tax compliance company, announced that the Sovos Compliance Network is live and ready to support businesses with the UAE's incoming e-Invoicing mandate. The service is delivered through InvoiceNow Biz, Sovos' accredited partner and registered Accredited Service Provider...

How AI Is Democratizing Performance Marketing for Indian SMBs

For years, performance marketing has rewarded businesses with scale. Larger enterprises built competitive advantages by investing in specialised talent, sophisticated technology, and dedicated agencies that continuously optimised customer acquisition. Small and medium businesses (SMBs), despite bein...

Murex Unveils AI Research Programme to Shape the Future of Capital Markets

Murex has launched Murex AI Research, a dedicated initiative that focuses on producing research on artificial intelligence in capital markets. The initiative will explore how artificial intelligence will redefine capital markets and help the industry prepare for what comes next. AI is rapidly resha...

Alipay Enhances Tap Ecosystem with New AI Agents and AI-powered Payments to Further Support Merchant Growth

Alipay announced the enhancement of its Tap! services by upgrading the Alipay Tap! devices widely used by millions of merchants into an AI agent-powered network, building the world’s first large-scale AI-powered offline business operations network. By connecting AI agent “Xiaoyu” t...

eDreams ODIGEO and Visa Power Agentic Commerce in Travel With New Secure AI Agent Protocols

eDreams ODIGEO, the world’s leading travel subscription company, announced it is working with Visa to enable AI-initiated transactions on its platforms within user-defined parameters. As part of this collaboration, eDO is using Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol and Agentic Directory to secu...

Bank of England Calls for Stronger AI Governance as Agentic Systems Reshape Global Finance

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the global financial system, and central banks must adapt their regulatory frameworks and operational capabilities to keep pace, according to Sarah Breeden of the Bank of England. In a keynote address on AI and financial stability, Breeden highlighted...

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