fintech

"an in-depth feature about how banks are incorporating AI into their research – which is helping customers find answers faster."

"Compliance technology has mostly focused on workflow and data collection. But the real bottleneck has always been the work itself – analysts researching companies, interpreting information, and documenting decisions. spektr automates those tasks with AI agents designed specifically for KYC and KYB compliance."

"Hiro offered AI-powered financial planning for consumers. Users entered financial information like salary, debts, and monthly costs, and the app modeled different what-if scenarios to help them make financial decisions."

"The London-based company, founded in 2025, has developed a payments infrastructure layer to bring guardrails, identity verification, and audit t..."

"PKSHA Technology announced on April 13 that it has developed an 'AI screening model' that reflects the economic knowledge of loan applicants in collaboration with Credit Saison, enabling screening in as short as 30 seconds."

"Anthropic has launched a framework called 'Project Glasswing,' which aims to 'find and fix vulnerabilities before attackers do' by limiting model access to trusted organizations on the defense side, with JPMorgan Chase selected as the sole banking member."

"Meow Technologies has launched what it describes as the world’s first agentic banking platform, enabling AI agents to open business bank accounts, issue cards, send payments, and manage day-to-day account activity on behalf of users, with no human required to initiate any action."

"By integrating an automated extraction layer, software engineers can reduce the average processing time per invoice from minutes to seconds, significantly improving UX for end-users in the fintech space."

"Visa unveils Intelligent Commerce Connect, a platform that facilitates payments for AI agents across multiple card networks, including those of Visa competitors"

"I recognized both the massive potential AI brought to the tax world, as well as the risks to firms and clients by making mistakes and hallucinations."

"WeChat Pay officially launched a set of AI-native integration tools, where merchants and developers only need one step to quickly integrate payment functions, greatly lowering the threshold of use."

"UK-based currency hedging platform MillTech raised $60M from Apax Digital Funds at a $325M valuation, and plans to expand in North America and build AI tools."

"Modus, which builds AI agents for audit workflows and invests in established accounting firms, raised a $5M seed and an $80M Series A led by Lightspeed."

"In the field of financial technology, the six major banks invested over 130 billion yuan for the full year, and AI large models have been upgraded from 'auxiliary tools' to 'productivity engines' driving the business front office, achieving large-scale implementation in scenarios such as credit approval, risk control, and intelligent customer service."

"With vague instructions like 'process all accounting tasks for this month,' the AI agent autonomously executes business tasks from start to finish, including interpreting intent, planning/executing requests, searching for data, and creating application entries."

"According to the company, the vision behind Hapax is to become an AI platform that understands the undertaking of business, finds the gaps where humans could use help without getting underfoot and then automatically builds solutions to fill those gaps."

"we spotted five companies in just the past month working on issues from cleaner ferries and trains to foundational AI for plants."

"I gave chatgpt $2,000 to trade stocks for 24 hours"

"In March 2026, payment industry giants Visa, Mastercard, Ramp, Coinbase, and Stripe launched in unison. The system, which allows AI agents to issue their own credit cards and make purchases without human confirmation, is already fully operational."

"Glimpse, which uses AI agents to let 200+ brands automate financial deduction processes, raised a $35M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total raised to $52M"

"It aimed to incubate a native, embedded, and secure "financial lobster," directly targeting the 'last mile' of investment – execution."

"Pagaya Technologies announced on Monday that it has closed a $450 million auto resecuritization transaction, the first refinancing deal under its Research-Driven Pagay"

"AI agents are poised to start moving money without human permission."

"The value of humans is perhaps re-affirmed and focused, which might be the true value of AI."

"If the previous generation of AI investment research tools were AI assistants that answered all questions, then AlphaClaw has evolved into 'autonomous execution', it is an AI analyst capable of independently running a complex investment research workflow."

"I made an SDK that allows AI agents to make payments."

"American Express Co. is deepening its relationship with site reliability engineering startup Traversal Inc., making a strategic investment through Amex Ventures while deploying Traversal’s artificial intelligence-driven site reliability engineering platform across its global technology infrastructure."

"We present an agentic system that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to automate adverse media screening."

"Today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000,"