Artificial Intelligence

February 27, 2025 @ 10:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Stripe, a payments and cash management platform used widely around the world, says it will extend an offer to shareholders to purchase stock at a valuation of $91.5 Billion or €87.3 billion. Stripe noted that it is profitable and anticipates this will continue going forward…. Read More

February 27, 2025 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Research from PensionBee reveals that Londoners are far more enthusiastic about using artificial intelligence (AI) to help manage their finances compared to the rest of the UK. A nationally representative survey of 1,000 UK adults examining attitudes toward AI in pension customer support revealed “that… Read More

February 25, 2025 @ 10:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital interactions by Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) clients grew 12% last year, reaching an all-time record 26 billion interactions through a combination of digital logins and proactive alerts. Innovative digital capabilities are enhancing experiences for the company’s more than “58 million verified digital clients… Read More

February 25, 2025 @ 7:45 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Debt capital markets Fintech CredCore this week announced a $16 million Series A. The round was led by Avataar Ventures, with participation from Inspired Capital, Fitch Group, BellTower Partners, and senior executives in asset management and financial services. The new funding will be used to… Read More

February 24, 2025 @ 4:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

The fear of artificial intelligence (AI) becoming self-aware, similar to Sky Net in the eponymous Terminator series, or at least leveraged to manipulate the masses, appears to be driving an onslaught of legislation targeting AI. Multistate, a government relations firm, has published a map tracking AI… Read More

February 23, 2025 @ 5:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna, the AI-powered payments and commerce network, has entered a new partnership with Combined Independent Holdings (CIH), the UK arm of Euronics—Europe’s electrical buying group—to integrate Klarna’s flexible payment options into Euronics.co.uk. This collab marks the start of a rollout that will aim to extend… Read More

February 22, 2025 @ 5:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

DiligentIQ, the AI-powered platform for conducting private equity due diligence, has raised up to $12 million in a two-tranche Series A round led by FINTOP Capital and partner JAM FINTOP. The investment will be used to scale DiligentIQ’s team and operations “as it expands its… Read More

February 21, 2025 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

Artificial intelligence firm and OurCrowd portfolio company Groq has received a $1.5 billion commitment from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. According to the offering page, Groq is an energy-efficient, high-performance AI provider. Founded in 2016 by former Googlers, Groq aims to: “…revolutionize the AI industry… Read More

February 20, 2025 @ 9:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stacks, the AI-powered workspace helping companies close their books quickly and efficiently, announced a $3 million pre-seed round led by EQT Ventures, followed by a $7 million seed round led by General Catalyst, with EQT Ventures. The rounds also saw participation from s16vc and angel… Read More

February 20, 2025 @ 11:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Growing levels of financial crime and regulatory “scrutiny” are forcing organizations to step up spending on compliance, but they are “less sold on AI as the standalone solution,” according to a survey of risk and compliance officers by LSEG Risk Intelligence. The survey finds that… Read More

February 20, 2025 @ 10:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Glassbox, a Toronto-based fintech startup, announced that it raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding in order to “reimagine” how finance teams work with spreadsheets in the age of AI (artificial intelligence). The investment round was led by FinTech Collective (New York) and StandUp Ventures (Toronto),… Read More

February 19, 2025 @ 9:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Earnix, a provider of intelligent decisioning SaaS solutions for regulated industries, announced the launch of the Earnix Copilot, “Alix.” This generative AI-driven agent is designed to enhance decision-making within the Earnix platform, driving “business outcomes and productivity for insurance and banking organizations.” With the Earnix… Read More

February 19, 2025 @ 10:58 am By JD Alois  |  

Trustfull has announced the launch of Domain Intelligence, a package of services that aims to prevent fraud and enable identity verification all powered by artificial intelligence. Based in Milan, Trustfull was created to support businesses by leveraging OSINT-based fraud prevention solutions. Created in 2020, Trustfull… Read More

February 18, 2025 @ 9:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Corridor Platforms collaborates with Google Cloud in order to solve GenAI governance for banks. The partnership enables banks to deploy GenAI apps, leveraging Corridor’s GenGuardX platform for governance, compliance, and risk management Corridor Platforms, the enabler of AI governance solutions, announces a partnership with Google… Read More

February 18, 2025 @ 9:08 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new survey shows nearly half of all financial services executives struggle with managing credit risk and detecting and preventing fraud. It also suggests many are revamping their credit risk decisioning and fraud prevention strategies in 2025, with AI playing a prominent role. These are… Read More

February 17, 2025 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Harvey has reportedly finalized a $300 million series D funding round at a $3 billion valuation. Harvey, which is described as the domain-specific (artificial intelligence) AI platform transforming workflows for legal and professional services, has recently confirmed its $300 million Series D financing, bringing its… Read More

February 16, 2025 @ 10:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Elite, a provider of financial management and business operations solutions to law firms, announced the launch of Elite Validate, a “purpose-built” billing compliance solution – powered by AI – that will transform and optimize how law firms manage adherence to Outside Counsel Guidelines (OCGs). Elite… Read More

February 14, 2025 @ 11:53 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, treasury operating system Finmo announced its oversubscribed $18.5 million Series A  round, bringing its total funding to $27 million. Finmo plans to accelerate its product development, invest in AI capabilities, and expand its global reach. The round was co-led by Quona Capital and PayPal Ventures with participation from Citi Ventures. The… Read More

February 14, 2025 @ 12:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Experian‘s research ‘Proactive Defense: Tackling Evolving Fraud Threats’ conducted by Forrester Consulting, surveyed more than 400 senior fraud professionals and decision makers across different countries, such as India, Norway, Denmark, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany. As mentioned in the update from Experian, a notable… Read More

February 13, 2025 @ 5:13 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Datalign, an AI platform matching consumers with leading financial advisors, this week announced a $5 million investment from Link Ventures. That brings their total investment in Datalign to $9 million on a post-money valuation of $75 million. The capital enables Datalign to further accelerate the development of AI… Read More