Cathay FHC Advances AI Adoption Across the Group With OpenAI
- 1 day 5 hours ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Cathay Financial Holdings (Cathay FHC) today announced a long-term strategic collaboration with OpenAI to strengthen the Group's core capabilities in AI research, deployment, and governance. Cathay FHC is the first financial institution organization to work with OpenAI at this scale to bring AI advanced capabilities into its operations in Taiwan.
FinTech Wales and AI Wales Launch Strategic Partnership to Strengthen AI and Fintech Ambitions
- 1 day 5 hours ago
- Artificial Intelligence
FinTech Wales and AI Wales have announced a strategic partnership and launched a new AI Hub, designed to accelerate artificial intelligence innovation across Wales. The partnership positions Wales as an appealing destination for UK and global investment for companies converging AI and financial technology.
Mastercard and Krungthai Card Complete First Live Agentic Transaction in Thailand
- 1 day 6 hours ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Mastercard today announced the completion of a pilot that delivered its first authenticated agentic transaction in Thailand with Krungthai Card Public Company Limited (KTC). The pilot leveraged Mastercard Agent Pay and was initiated by AI agents in a controlled pilot environment, ensuring security, transparency and full consumer control.
Sole Traders Turn to AI for Tax and Accounting Advice
- 1 day 9 hours ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Starling Bank reveals new research today which shows sole traders’ growing reliance on AI for financial advice. A quarter (26%) have used an AI platform for guidance on HMRC’s new Making Tax Digital initiative, while one in five regularly use it for tax and accounting support. The vast majority said they trust advice from AI (88%), with 55% expecting to rely on it more in the year ahead.
Altimetrik & HFS Research Reveals the World’s Largest Businesses Show Worrying Lack of AI Direction
- 1 day 9 hours ago
- Artificial Intelligence
New research from Altimetrik, in partnership with HFS Research, finds that the vast majority of the world’s largest businesses have deployed AI without answering a fundamental question: Who is actually in charge of what it decides?
Visa Opens the Door to AI-Driven Shopping for Businesses Worldwide
- 1 day 9 hours ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Visa Inc. today unveiled Intelligent Commerce Connect, a new solution that makes it easier for businesses to connect to and participate in AI-powered commerce. Intelligent Commerce Connect acts as a network, protocol, and token vault-agnostic ‘on ramp’ to agentic commerce for agent builders, merchants, and enablers.
Finastra and Marketnode Transform Credit Agreement Onboarding Through AI
- 2 days 9 hours ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Finastra, a global leader in financial services software, today announced a strategic partnership with Marketnode to digitize and automate the credit agreement onboarding process for corporate lenders. The collaboration brings together Marketnode’s LLM/AI‑powered intelligent document automation and Finastra’s Loan IQ platform through the Loan IQ Nexus Build module. It enables FIs to digitize the credit agreement onboarding process via an... more
Nutanix Delivers Complete Platform for the Agentic AI Era
- 2 days 9 hours ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Nutanix , a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced new capabilities to the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) solution designed to help organisations operate reliably as AI workloads expand, cloud environments grow more complex, and hardware supply constraints drive the need for more flexible infrastructure platforms.
Seven in Ten Consumers Say AI Is Making Fraud and Scam Attempts More Convincing
- 1 week 2 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Seven in ten (72%) people report that fraud and scam attempts are more convincing than they used to be, as fraudsters increasingly embrace AI, according to new research from global payments provider, emerchantpay.
Daylit Launches AI Agents for Accounts Receivable, Bringing Autonomous Collections and Real-Time Cash Intelligence to Finance Teams
- 1 week 2 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Daylit launched its AI agents platform for accounts receivable (AR), enabling finance teams to accelerate collection and transform receivables into a strategic driver of working capital performance. Early adopters have increased collections on high-risk accounts by nearly 3x, reduced manual follow-up work by more than 40 hours per week, lowered AR operating costs by more than 75%, and achieved email reply rates of approximately 50%—more than... more
Lloyds Banking Group and University of Glasgow announce groundbreaking agentic AI research programme
- 1 week 4 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
A new research partnership between the University of Glasgow and Lloyds Banking Group is setting out to explore the potential of AI to support software and data engineering. Over the next four years, the partners will explore how large language model-based coding tools called agentic AIs could support and enhance the work of software and data engineers at Lloyds Banking Group.
Vyntra Report Warns of Industrialised AI Fraud as Global Scam Losses Hit $442 Billion
- 2 weeks 3 days ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Global scam losses have surged to an estimated $442 billion in the past 12 months, with 70% of adults worldwide experiencing at least one scam attempt and 23% losing money, according to the latest data in Vyntra’s newly released 2026 fraud trends report, The Anatomy of Modern Banking Fraud. Vyntra warns that fraud has entered a new phase defined by industrialised AI where fraudsters operate at scale, hyper personalisation and real-time... more
Starling Launches UK’s First Agentic AI Financial Assistant
- 3 weeks 6 hours ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Starling Bank has launched the UK’s first Agentic AI financial assistant, which can help manage day-to-day finances, share personalised financial insights and give general banking guidance to personal account holders. The in-app ‘Starling Assistant’ offers an all-new conversational banking interface that responds to voice and natural language prompts before carrying out banking tasks on the customer’s behalf, from setting up personalised saving... more
Smarsh Unleashes AI Agents to Reduce Corporate Legal Discovery Costs by 75%
- 3 weeks 1 day ago
- Artificial Intelligence
As messaging channels multiply and AI-generated content grows, Smarsh is redefining the traditionally resource-intensive and multi-million-dollar process of legal discovery. Today, the global leader in communications intelligence unveiled a suite of AI-native agents that compress investigation timelines from weeks to hours, effectively ending the era of "idle data" and replacing it with an automated, defensible engine for corporate oversight.
