Tagged: ai

November 26, 2025 @ 3:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) has recently announced that it has enabled PayPal merchants to become discoverable within Perplexity, giving consumers the option to checkout in chat. As of now, U.S. users exploring Perplexity’s shopping experience can transition from research to purchase, leveraging PayPal’s identity verification, Purchase… Read More

November 26, 2025 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Checkout.com, a digital payments company, announced its support for the Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP), which is described as an open standard for AI commerce that lets AI agents, businesses work to complete purchases, powering agentic commerce for enterprise merchants. Checkout.com will support ACP, allowing merchants… Read More

November 24, 2025 @ 4:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Research from financial and payments platform, Airwallex, indicates that one in five (19%) Australian business professionals now expect to see a Chief AI Officer (CAIO) working along with the CFO as more businesses begin to effectively embed AI into their core operations. The Airwallex Future… Read More

November 24, 2025 @ 1:02 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

A global reset is unfolding across AI and tech markets as investors confront the limits of a model that has powered equity gains for two years, warns the CEO of a global financial advisory giant. The warning from Nigel Green of deVere Group follows four… Read More

November 23, 2025 @ 1:58 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Kaaj, an agentic AI credit intelligence platform that simplifies small business lending, announced it secured $3.8 million in seed funding led by Kindred Ventures, with contributions from Better Tomorrow Ventures and others. Established in 2024, Kaaj’s aim / goal is to expand access to affordable… Read More

November 23, 2025 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Billtrust, the enabler of B2B accounts receivable workflow and payment software, released findings from a new research study exploring finance leaders’ trust in artificial intelligence (AI) and their expectations for responsible AI deployment. The research study, based on a survey of 500 finance professionals and… Read More

November 22, 2025 @ 8:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) announced that its EY Grants Accelerator platform, an AI-enabled platform intended to transform the way governments manage and disburse critical grant funding, has earned FedRAMP (Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) Authorization. This reportedly confirms that the solution meets… Read More

November 21, 2025 @ 10:56 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Chargeflow, an AI-powered chargeback automation platform, this week announced a $35 million Series A funding round, including a $10 million debt facility, led by Viola Growth, with participation by existing investors OpenView Venture Partners. It brings the company’s total funding to $49 million. The new… Read More

November 21, 2025 @ 9:08 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The fintech world has begun to release its predictions for 2026. Read on to find out how AI, cybersecurity and general tech developments will shape the industry in the year ahead. Cybersecurity “2026’s cybersecurity threat landscape is high-tech, high-stakes, and fast-changing. From AI-driven hacks to… Read More

November 20, 2025 @ 1:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Maxima, the agentic AI platform for accounting automation, announced $41 million in Seed and Series A from Redpoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Audacious Ventures. Maxima also mentioned in the announcement that the funding round has now been joined by former BlackLine CMO & Chief Strategy Officer… Read More

November 19, 2025 @ 1:27 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ramp, the financial operations platform, is now reportedly valued at $32B following a $300 million primary financing round as well as an employee tender offer. According to the announcement from Ramp, Lightspeed Venture Partners has led the financing, with ongoing support from existing investors: Founders… Read More

November 19, 2025 @ 1:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Chargeflow, the AI-powered chargeback automation platform, announced a $35 million Series A round — including a $10 million debt facility, which was led by Viola Growth, with contributions by existing investors OpenView Venture Partners, bringing the firm’s total funding to $49 million. The capital injection… Read More

November 18, 2025 @ 3:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now becoming a key driver in accounting and is also said to be noticeably changing processes. Over half of companies (53 percent) currently use AI in this area or are “in the process of implementing it.” This is shown by the… Read More

November 17, 2025 @ 12:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CB Insights has reportedly analyzed over 1,350 early-stage deals in October 2025 in order to identify the most promising or high-potential firms, major investors, as well as emerging categories to watch closely (all this was said to have been based on CB Insights predictive intelligence)…. Read More

November 16, 2025 @ 10:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  Credibly’s strategy for incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into its underwriting system provides a blueprint for companies wishing to smoothly adopt transformative technologies. It’s a deliberate, well-thought-out plan, dating back several years. Chief revenue officer MJ Jiang said she immediately saw AI’s potential to change… Read More

November 16, 2025 @ 9:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Equifax (NYSE: EFX) is assisting regulated businesses with the introduction of new AML Compliance Solutions designed to lessen the burden of AML (anti-money laundering) regulatory compliance for FS firms and related industries by flagging potential associations between “a prospect and activities that may indicate potential… Read More

November 14, 2025 @ 9:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trulioo, an identity platform claiming global coverage for person and business verification, announced the launch of Trulioo credit decisioning, which is described as a capability that delivers financial, credit, and risk insights via the Trulioo identity platform. The roll-out follows a 102% YoY surge in… Read More

November 13, 2025 @ 11:23 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, which claims to be one of the largest companies in the digital asset ecosystem, is taking a step forward to advance open, freedom-first AI and cloud services. Tether has signed an agreement to lease a share of a 20,000+ GPU network to power its… Read More

November 13, 2025 @ 8:19 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have recently announced a new partnership on artificial intelligence in Finance between Singapore and the United Kingdom (UK) – termed the UK-Singapore AI-in-Finance Partnership. Announced at the Singapore FinTech Festival, the partnership… Read More

November 13, 2025 @ 8:17 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Quantexa, a global enabler of Decision Intelligence, unveiled Quantexa AI, the so-called next evolution of its Decision Intelligence Platform, now agentic ready. As organizations increase their use of large language models and smaller, purpose-built and domain-trained models, many are discovering a common limitation: when AI… Read More