Artificial Intelligence

December 14, 2025 @ 4:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Research from Checkout.com indicates that this festive season will mark a key turning point for agentic AI adoption, as consumers increasingly turn to intelligent digital agents in order to “manage the stress, cost and complexity of peak-season shopping.” With almost half or 47% of consumers… Read More

December 14, 2025 @ 12:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stripe, the programmable financial services company, has recently introduced the Agentic Commerce Suite, a solution to help businesses get ready to sell via multiple AI agents. More than likely, the future of digital commerce will involve the assistance of various artificial intelligence powered tools to… Read More

December 14, 2025 @ 12:33 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

AI dominates cybersecurity experts’ 2026 predictions as it touches on authentication, privacy and attack acceleration. GPU optimization and AI-driven attacks will push companies toward regional cloud providers “GPU optimization becomes a headline topic in 2026. Today, most companies only use about 60% of the GPU… Read More

December 13, 2025 @ 2:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) announced a new investment in WEVO, the AI-powered customer research platform that enables firms to simulate and validate behaviors before launching their actual products and services. The investment, led by Accenture Ventures, will incorporate WEVO’s capabilities within Accenture Song’s GrowthOS, a platform… Read More

December 13, 2025 @ 8:16 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Accertify, a unified risk decisioning platform provider, this week released results from Cyber Monday 2025 showing an interesting consumer pattern: more transactions, smaller baskets, and a spike in volume at the 9 p.m. Central hour. Accertify clients processed 49.3 million transactions on Cyber Monday, representing… Read More

December 12, 2025 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Harness, the AI software delivery platform company, announced a $240 million Series E round. The funding round reportedly includes a $200 million investment led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives as well as a planned $40 million tender offer with contributions made from IVP, Menlo Ventures, and… Read More

December 12, 2025 @ 12:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

This year, Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) says that it has helped companies save more than 250,000 hours via its CashPro Forecasting solution. The AI-enabled digital tool addresses one of treasury’s most time-consuming yet “business critical” tasks — forecasting. It has now reportedly transformed what… Read More

December 12, 2025 @ 12:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

French Fintech Kéria has raised €1.5 million, including €0.5 million in debt, in a Seed Funding round. Led by Epopée Gestion (Xplore), other investors include Newfund, Fabien Breget, Bpifrance, and Caisse d’Epargne CEPAC. Kéria is building an AI-powered solution to automatically analyse mortgage applications and… Read More

December 12, 2025 @ 12:34 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Trump Administration wants to ensure that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) is regulated at the federal level and not by individual states. While Republicans tend to give states broad leeway in governance, the current Administration fears a fragmented approach to AI development will… Read More

December 11, 2025 @ 11:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, announced the results of its survey on the primary risks that are presently facing financial markets. DTCC’s Systemic Risk Barometer offers key insights into the evolving risks that… Read More

December 11, 2025 @ 3:00 pm By Nick Morgan  |  

    Artificial intelligence is experiencing one of the most explosive investment booms in modern history. Billion-dollar seed rounds – once unthinkable – are now routine. But as former NASDAQ Vice Chair David Weild warns on the latest episode of ICAN’s Capital Ideas podcast, this… Read More

December 11, 2025 @ 2:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinGecko has noted that meme coins have again emerged as the most popular crypto narrative this year, capturing a total of 25.02% of global investor interest across the main meme coin category as well as 35 meme coin trends. According to the report from CoinGecko,… Read More

December 11, 2025 @ 1:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Online lender LoanTube (trading as Tiger Lion Financial Limited) says its credit marketplace is now available via ChatGPT. Of note, LoanTube’s ratings on TrustPilo are pretty good. According to a release, LoanTabe states that loan applications can be completed via chat in a “conversational interface…. Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Setu by Pine Labs has recently announced the launch of India’s agentic bill-payments experience, designed to address key challenges in bill payments: the fear of incorrect charges and the burden of missing important due dates. Although actually paying a bill takes minutes, keeping track of… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 7:26 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

From chargebacks to passwords and identity, cybersecurity experts have plenty of thoughts on what 2026 will bring. Chargebacks charge ahead “Chargebacks will spike as consumers exploit the ‘the agent did it’ excuse. In 2026, chargebacks will jump as agentic commerce rolls out – not because… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 12:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

Surf, an AI platform for digital assets that aims to help institutions and individual investors analyze projects, better understand markets, and make better investing decisions, has raised $15 million, according to a release. The funding round was led by Pantera Capital, with Coinbase Ventures and… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 11:46 am By JD Alois  |  

Today, the House Financial Services Committee is holding a hearing on Artificial Intelligence (AI). Entitled From Principles to Policy: Enabling 21st Century AI Innovation in Financial Services, the following individuals are testifying: Jeanette Manfra, Vice President and Global Head of Risk & Compliance, Google Cloud Tal… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 11:40 am By JD Alois  |  

The House Financial Services Committee is advancing legislation aimed at providing guardrails for the utilization of artificial intelligence (AI). The Unleashing AI Innovation in Financial Services Act (HR 4801) will seek to create AI Innovation Labs that allow individuals to experiment with AI without the… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 9:17 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether Investments has recently announced an investment in Generative Bionics, the spinoff of IIT (the Italian Institute of Technology) and one of the largest research spinoffs in Europe, in order to support the development of intelligent humanoid robots built for industrial scale performance, human-centric interaction… Read More

December 10, 2025 @ 8:11 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new report from Entrust finds that larger U.S. financial institutions with digital card issuance plans are well-positioned to use AI to dramatically improve the process. Areas where AI can help include friction reduction, improving compliance and KYC, simplifying onboarding, fighting fraud, and accelerating time-to-activation…. Read More