Tagged: ai

December 19, 2025 @ 3:54 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Sutherland and ComplyAdvantage have united to develop an AI-driven financial crime management solution designed to help banks and fintechs respond to the rapid rise of AI-designed fraud, complex AML risks, fast-evolving financial crime threats, and complex compliance requirements. Today, financial crime requires sophisticated, AI-intelligence-based solutions,… Read More

December 19, 2025 @ 3:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) secured 27 patents in the second half of 2025, bringing the total number of patents secured for the year to 62. Twenty of these patents support the company’s approach to artificial intelligence, complementing its EFX.AI strategy and “helping to accelerate the development… Read More

December 19, 2025 @ 12:43 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Microblink, a provider of AI-powered identity verification, released new findings from its Fraud Lab showing a sharp escalation in AI-generated fake IDs and deepfake documents used to commit fraud across banking, hospitality, and digital onboarding. Microblink’s Fraud Lab, an internal research and simulation team, actively… Read More

December 19, 2025 @ 7:10 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new research paper identifies ways technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning can address shortcomings in anti-money laundering (AML) enforcement. Next generation  AML solutions: An analysis of AI-based tools vis-a-vis the reform of the European AML institutional and substantive architecture, authored by Yaron… Read More

December 19, 2025 @ 5:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Solflare announced the alpha version of its AI assistant that interacts with wallets. The Solflare AI release translates complex user intents into action, with an LLM-powered assistant that understands user intent and can execute on-chain on their behalf. Launching at Solana Breakpoint, Solflare’s… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 10:50 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

  Backbase’s 2026 Banking Predictions Report reveals how artificial intelligence, unified platforms, and invisible payments will shift from pilot projects to production-scale transformation across retail, commercial, wealth, and private banking. Drawing on feedback from executives at McKinsey & Company, Bain & Company, EY, EverBank, Nedbank… Read More

December 17, 2025 @ 5:59 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE:KLAR), the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, announced the launch of its Agentic Product Protocol, which is described as being a new open standard that makes every product on the internet discoverable as well as more understandable by AI agents. As AI becomes… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 4:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Ncontracts’ The Future of Compliance describes compliance’s transition from more of a mundane obligation into a strategic priority. However, that change, still ongoing, has been far from smooth. Compliance has become a strategic function, with 82% of respondents saying they are satisfied with board and… Read More

December 16, 2025 @ 8:41 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Similarweb’s 2025 Generative AI Landscape: The State of Gen AI provides a concise breakdown of how AI has changed mobile search and digital interaction. According to Similarweb, average monthly web visits to AI sites rose 76% YoY, and unique visitors increased 58%. Those numbers are… Read More

December 15, 2025 @ 8:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brainworks Ventures, AI-native venture capital fund led by DARPA alumnus Dr. Phillip Alvelda and a global team of veteran investors and innovators, announced the launch of its $50 million fund designed for what Managing Partner Dr. Alvelda calls “the new mathematics of AI-native companies.” The… 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 @ 2:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

RIQ and Swiss Re have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop and scale innovative capacity solutions, risk origination opportunities, and AI-enabled capabilities across the UAE region. Headquartered in the ADGM, RIQ is building an AI native reinsurance platform that integrates artificial intelligence and analytics… 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 @ 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 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

KPMG noted that the German M&A market is beginning 2026 with confidence: companies, private equity firms, and family offices expect a noticeable upturn in transaction activity. After a year with fewer but larger deals – in the period from Q4 ’24 to Q3 ’25, the… 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 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 @ 8:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The EY US AI Pulse Survey finds many leaders are channeling productivity gains from artificial intelligence into existing and new AI capabilities, R&D, cybersecurity and retraining employees rather than reducing headcount. While an increasing number of companies announce AI-related layoffs and concerns mount about more… Read More