Artificial Intelligence

October 15, 2025 @ 10:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, and Google Cloud announced a strategic, AI-focused partnership to accelerate tech advancements, creativity, and customer-centric solutions to BNPL Fintech firm Klarna’s  consumers worldwide. Klarna will leverage Google Cloud’s AI stack, from infrastructure, to platform, to models,… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 10:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PaceUPInvest is raising funds through its crowdfunding campaign carried out through Crowdcube. The company explains that it is committed to enhancing the accessibility of wealth management services. By harnessing the power of artificial intelligence algorithms and valuable human insight, their platform aims to assist users… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

  Concerns that artificial intelligence (AI) hype will outpace reality have grown louder of late. While predictions of profound transformation across all industries abound, AI investment and valuations continue to grow.  Some are drawing parallels to the Dot Com Bomb of the early 2000s, when… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 8:29 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

EXL [NASDAQ: EXLS] is unlocking the data foundation to make AI real for enterprises with its newly unveiled agentic AI suite of data solutions, EXLdata.ai. In partnership with Databricks, this suite of data solutions tackles a top barrier to AI adoption by making enterprise data usable for… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 8:13 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance has noted that AI adoption has risen in terms of compliance, but measurement continues to lag behind. According to the UK industry body,  it should actually be no secret that FIs are trying to adopt artificial intelligence across different areas of risk as… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 10:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Deloitte released the findings of its GenAI in M&A Survey, asking 1,000 corporate and private equity professionals across various industries in the United States about their expectations for Generative AI use in dealmaking as well as what trends could be emerging within investment and deployment… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 11:39 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Toku, a stablecoin payroll platform, has announced a partnership with Lagrange, a provider of verifiable AI. Over the past four years, Toku has built the first global system for token compensation, solving for taxes and compliance across more than 100 jurisdictions. With the 2025 stablecoin… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 8:21 am By JD Alois  |  

Fintech Prometeo says it is poised to offer Agentic Banking in Latin America. Prometeo is a banking software platform, reporting over 1500 connections to 1200 financial institutions in eleven countries. The company has announced the launch of its Agentic Banking solution, which is said to… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Tabby, a financial services app, announced that it is now deploying NVIDIA HGX systems to start developing and testing its AI capabilities to serve a growing base of clients and merchants. The investment helps with establishing local AI factory infrastructure that supports tech advancements while… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 1:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European venture markets this year continue to tell two very different stories and contrasting narratives, according to a report from PitchBook. On one hand, artificial intelligence appears to have cemented itself as the dominant force, making up almost 40% of deal value YTD and delivering… Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 10:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Venture activity is picking up again, according to an update from CB Insights. This comes after several years of recalibration, the report noted while pointing out that Q3’25 appears to have marked a “decisive” turning point. This, as both funding and exits notably reached their… Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 6:12 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Oliver Wyman noted in their wealth and asset management report with Morgan Stanley that they examined the global industry outlook, and have carefully looked at how mergers and acquisitions are now seemingly changing the asset management and wealth management ecosystem. In the latest report, they… Read More

October 13, 2025 @ 10:13 am By Michael Wong  |  

Berlin-based automation and AI orchestration startup n8n has raised $180 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total funding to $240 million and valuing the company at $2.5 billion, according to a company announcement. The round was led by Accel with participation from… Read More

October 12, 2025 @ 4:20 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Waterlily, which uses AI to predict long-term care (LTC) needs up to decades before they happen, announced today the launch of Quote-and-Apply. This new offering is said to utilize AI and computation across hundreds of thousands of insurance policy configurations to identify the mathematically optimal… Read More

October 12, 2025 @ 4:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle revealed that it is currently incubating prototypes and products at the intersection of crypto and AI. It is said to be working on a machine-to-machine micropayments solution. Artificial intelligence is entering a new phase — one that appears to be increasingly defined by agency…. Read More

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