Artificial Intelligence

April 22, 2026 @ 12:08 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Slash Financial is now valued at $1.4 billion following a $100m Series C funding round led by Ribbit Capital. New investor Khosla Ventures and Goodwater Capital, who led Slash’s Series B 16 months ago, co-led the round. New Enterprise Associates and Y Combinator also participated… Read More

April 21, 2026 @ 12:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Today, HM Treasury introduced new measures to improve the payments sector and boost the ecosystem’s competitiveness. The policy incorporates items such as stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and more. HM Treasury highlights the fact that over 3000 Fintech firms operate in the UK, with the sector attracting… Read More

April 21, 2026 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Lloyds Banking Group has announced a boost to its responsible artificial intelligence operations, recruiting a group of specialists to enhance oversight, ethical standards, and technical safeguards as the organisation pushes deeper into advanced AI applications. The move underscores the bank’s focus on balancing innovation with… Read More

April 21, 2026 @ 9:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KPMG has indicated that graphics processing units or GPUs, long associated with gaming and high-performance computing, have rapidly evolved into a cornerstone of artificial intelligence infrastructure. Their parallel processing capabilities make them indispensable for training complex models, running inference tasks, and powering data-intensive applications across… Read More

April 21, 2026 @ 8:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Piraeus Bank, Greece’s largest financial institution, has joined forces with global technology enabler Accenture (NYSE: ACN) to unveil a new AI Hub dedicated to enhancing banking operations across the country. Powered by Anthropic’s advanced AI models, the initiative marks a major escalation in their longstanding… Read More

April 21, 2026 @ 12:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nansen noted that in the ecosystem of blockchain analytics, traditional access models have long frustrated developers and AI-driven systems. Monthly subscriptions, mandatory approvals, and fixed commitments often create barriers, especially for unpredictable usage patterns. Nansen, an onchain intelligence platform, has eliminated these hurdles by adopting… Read More

April 20, 2026 @ 5:05 pm By JD Alois  |  

Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced a $5 billion investment in AI firm Anthropic and committed to another $20 billion in future investments. Amazon previously invested $8 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic and Amazon are deeply intertwined, as Anthropic’s Claude Platform is available on AWS and has now committed… Read More

April 20, 2026 @ 2:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Plaid has released its latest research, The State of Intelligent Finance: AI, Agents and Trust, offering a snapshot of how artificial intelligence is transforming everyday money management. The Spring 2026 study shows that AI is no longer a novelty for consumers—it has become an essential… Read More

April 20, 2026 @ 8:12 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Gr4vy, the cloud-native payment orchestration platform, is now fully ready to support agentic payment transactions through its orchestration layer, allowing merchants to manage and process transactions within AI-driven environments. In addition, Gr4vy is launching its Agentic Development Kit (ADK), designed to equip and guide merchants… Read More

April 20, 2026 @ 3:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) April 2026 report, titled Growth in the New Economy: Towards a Blueprint, identifies accelerating AI adoption as a primary force shaping global growth amid geostrategic competition, high debt, environmental pressures, and demographic shifts. Drawing on dialogues with nearly 200 industry… Read More

April 19, 2026 @ 11:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

World Network has recently unveiled its most recent upgrade to World ID, positioning it as a full-stack solution for cryptographic proof-of-human verification in the age of AI. Announced at the Lift Off event in San Francisco, the refreshed protocol shifts to an account-based architecture that… Read More

April 19, 2026 @ 5:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

American Express (NYSE: AXP) appears to be quietly rewriting the rules of corporate expense management by agreeing to acquire Hyper, a specialist in agentic AI tools that automate everything from receipt categorization and policy checks to report filing and budget alerts. Financial terms of the… Read More

April 19, 2026 @ 4:28 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Factory, an artificial intelligence infrastructure startup, has raised $150 million in a Series C funding round led by Khosla Ventures at a $1.5 billion valuation, underscoring continued investor appetite for enterprise AI platforms that promise to automate more of the software development process. The round… Read More

April 19, 2026 @ 1:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) has recently indicated that artificial intelligence is transforming the tactics of online criminals, financial institutions and everyday users are confronting a more cunning and costly threat environment. TransUnion’s mid-year 2026 supplement to its flagship fraud trends analysis reveals that identity-centric attacks and… Read More

April 19, 2026 @ 1:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Q2 Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: QTWO) has introduced a new tool aimed at transforming how banks and credit unions enhance their digital services. The company, known for delivering advanced technology that helps financial organizations modernize their operations, recently unveiled Q2 Code. This platform serves as a… Read More

April 19, 2026 @ 10:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Moody’s Corporation (NYSE: MCO) has taken a step forward in making its cutting-edge artificial intelligence capabilities more accessible to financial institutions. On April 16, 2026, the company revealed that its Moody’s Agentic Solutions (MAS) workflows are now listed in AWS Marketplace. This launch begins with… Read More

April 19, 2026 @ 9:40 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

DataSnipper, an agentic automation platform for audit and finance teams, is partnering with Armanino, a top 20 U.S. accounting and consulting firm, to accelerate the adoption of AI across internal audit and risk functions. As internal audit and risk teams expand coverage and face growing… Read More

April 19, 2026 @ 2:31 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Vertafore introduced its Velocity AI Platform and six AI agents for everyday insurance workflows. The Vertafore Velocity AI Platform Purpose-built for insurance, Velocity AI brings artificial intelligence directly into the core systems agencies, MGAs and carriers already use. The platform serves as the… Read More

April 18, 2026 @ 8:25 am By Michael Wong  |  

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming a central factor in how businesses and institutional investors approach international expansion and capital deployment, according to a recent survey by HSBC. The survey found that access to AI, critical technologies, and supporting infrastructure will be among the most important… Read More

April 18, 2026 @ 2:26 am By Michael Wong  |  

Climate-focused venture capital is increasingly targeting the infrastructure behind artificial intelligence, as surging compute demand and power consumption create new investment opportunities across the digital economy. Vietnam-based Earth Venture Capital said it participated in Sygaldry Technologies’ $139 million financing round, which included a $34 million… Read More