Tamsin Crossland, Principal AI Architect, Icon Solutions:

Global analytics software leader FICO is transforming credit education for America’s students. FICO is announcing a strategic partnership with financial literacy education platform, Banzai, that will deliver comprehensive FICO® Score and credit education to millions of K-12 students across more than 70% of U.S. schools.

Temenos, a global leader in banking technology, today announced that BEA International Bank, the newly established French subsidiary of Banque Extérieure d’Algérie (BEA), has successfully gone live with Temenos Core Banking and Financial Crime Mitigation (FCM) as Temenos SaaS. This cloud-native deployment provides BEA International Bank with a flexible and scalable platform to expand banking services in France, supporting its long-term growth strategy.

Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), is glad to celebrate International Women’s Day under its flagship Blockchain4Her initiative, aligned with its beliefs of inclusion and gender diversity as critical drivers of long-term growth in the blockchain industry.

Accounts payable automation company Lessn today announced that it exceeded $100 million being transacted on its platform in February 2026 within its first year of operations, as the company considers a new investment round. 

Glia, the leading platform for intelligent banking interactions, today released its 2026 Banking AI Benchmarks Report, the financial services industry’s first AI performance analysis based on real interaction data. Analyzing data from 400 financial institutions that successfully integrated banking-specific AI, the report provides a production-grade blueprint for achieving measurable ROI while bypassing the hallucination, compliance and integration risks inherent in industry-agnostic AI tools.

Huawei has provided digital connectivity to 170 million people in remote areas across more than 80 countries, surpassing its pledge to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Partner2Connect (P2C) Digital Coalition.

Eltropy, the trusted leader in unified conversations, today launched the industry’s first Agentic AI platform for credit unions. The platform provides a safe environment where AI agents can be created, governed, integrated, and deployed. It unites the three key stakeholders of the credit union ecosystem: 

• Credit unions, defining workflows and operational needs

Colt Technology Services (Colt), the global digital infrastructure company, today announced a successful proof of concept for an agentic AI engine it has developed together with Microsoft, to accelerate, simplify and clarify complex deal pricing for customers and enhance the Colt customer experience. As Colt’s customers grow, scale and expand their global presence, pricing can be complex, particularly across global markets, and a lack of transparency can be confusing and costly.

DTCC, the premier market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, today announced plans to launch next-generation equities data portals for clients, delivering a streamlined, intuitive interface for accessing clearing, settlement and post-trade processing information provided by DTCC subsidiaries National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) and Depository Trust Corporation (DTC), and DTCC’s suite of post-trade processing solutions, Institutional Trade Processing (ITP).