Artificial Intelligence

October 12, 2025 @ 11:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A new FSB report sets out guidelines for relevant authorities regarding how to tackle the challenges related to overseeing the adoption of artificial intelligence in the financial services industry. AI is being increasingly used by financial services providers and other industries as well because of… Read More

October 11, 2025 @ 6:55 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Yendo, the company behind a vehicle-secured credit card, this week announced a $50 million Series B funding round. It includes investors Spice Expeditions, Autotech Ventures, FPV Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, Mark Cuban, and Clocktower Technology Ventures. The funding will accelerate Yendo’s expansion beyond secured lending… Read More

October 11, 2025 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently caught up with George Kailas, CEO & Founder of Prospero, a Fintech startup with a mission to democratize access to financial markets for retail traders and investors. Prospero explains that it simplifies institutional trading behavior into more meaningful and “actionable” data-driven insights that… Read More

October 10, 2025 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Splitit, the embedded card-linked installments service provider, has recently announced the launch of an invite-only partner program intended to make pay-later capabilities native to Agentic AI, which may enable the so-called next generation of AI-driven commerce. The Splitit Agentic Commerce Partner Program will… Read More

October 10, 2025 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The way that AI is being used by the investment management sector is shifting from a focus on operational efficiency to allowing for more sophisticated investment-centric applications. According to a Citi report, this is being driven by AI’s ability to handle very large amounts of… Read More

October 10, 2025 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zilch, the consumer payments platform powering commerce, unveiled product developments marking the next phase of its growth. Recently, the company has introduced Zilch Intelligent Commerce – an AI powered data intelligence platform for retailers and brands to potentially increase their return on ad spend when… Read More

October 10, 2025 @ 12:16 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Deepgram, a real-time Voice AI platform, has launched Flux, a conversational speech recognition (CSR) model designed specifically for real-time voice agents. Unlike traditional automatic speech recognition (ASR), which was built for transcription use cases like captions or meeting notes, Flux is trained to understand the… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 11:33 am By Omar Faridi  |  

AI Venture Builder, a UK-based startup studio focused on launching B2B AI-powered software solutions, has secured 103% of its £600,003 target via its fundraising campaign carried out via Republic Europe (with 7 days remaining in the crowdfunding campaign). AI Venture Builder is reporting a total… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 8:54 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

New research from CodeSignal and Legit finds that consumers grossly underestimate the frequency with which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used to create the apps and tools they use daily. CodeSignal found that 81% of the developers it surveyed reported using AI-powered coding assistants; 49% used… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 8:42 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The majority of FIs worldwide lost clients during the past year because of relatively slow onboarding, according to an update from Regtech Fenergo Notably, this is said to be highest rate recorded to date and appears to be a serious issue because UX and frictionless… Read More

October 8, 2025 @ 8:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CB Insights has released the State of Fintech Q3’25 Report as part of a collaborative effort with Money20/20. The quarterly breakdown of the trends shaping fintech’s next wave of growth have been unveiled in a comprehensive report. Some of the main takeaways from the CB… Read More

October 8, 2025 @ 1:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nine new ransomware groups have been identified in a key update shared by TRM Labs. And all of them are said to be a part of one evolving ecosystem. In their latest blog post, the team at TRM Labs examines the operations behind these emerging… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 1:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

This post on X caught the attention of many people. An Austin-based company called Gauntlet AI is promising software engineers a $200,000 per year salary if they complete their 12-week program. The deal is said to include housing, food, and travel. The program is intense… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 9:28 am By JD Alois  |  

French artificial intelligence firm Ewake has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding, according to a note from the firm. The funding round was led by Connect Ventures. Others participating in the funding include 2100 Ventures, Notion Capital, Insiders, 50partners, and angel investors, including Amirhossein Malekzadeh…. Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 2:48 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ant International, a global digital payment, digitisation, and financial technology provider, today officially launched AI SHIELD to protect AI systems from threats and vulnerabilities, a toolkit to “help AI-powered financial services stay secure and compliant as AI transforms global finance.” Ensuring security is at the… Read More

October 6, 2025 @ 6:11 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Baselane, the banking and financial platform for real estate investors, has raised $34.4 million in new funding, including a recently closed $20 million Series B led by Thomvest Ventures and a previously unannounced $14.4 million Series A led by Matrix Partners. The funding milestone coincides… Read More

October 6, 2025 @ 3:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Total spending on third-party AML systems is projected increase by significant 121% by 2030, according to an update from the team at Juniper Research. This latest estimated figure would be up considerably from $33.9 billion this year. As stated in the report, gaps in transaction… Read More

October 5, 2025 @ 3:43 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Precoro, a procurement centralization and automation platform, today announced the launch of its AI Assistant, a native AI-powered chatbot that gives finance, procurement, and AP teams instant insights from their purchasing data. Instead of digging through dashboards or waiting on analysts, users can now simply… Read More

October 4, 2025 @ 6:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nearly eight-in-ten organisations say their cyber budget will increase in the coming year, as businesses contend with an array of cyber risks Investment in AI was the main budget priority (36%) over the next 12 months, ahead of cloud security (34%), network security (28%) as… Read More

October 4, 2025 @ 2:12 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Acuity Knowledge Partners, a London-based provider of bespoke research, data management, analytics and AI solutions to financial institutions, has acquired Ascent, a UK company whose software supports AI-driven digital transformation. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Acuity said the transaction will lift its global… Read More