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BNP Paribas and Google Cloud today announced a new five-year partnership, to expand BNP Paribas’ access to Google Cloud’s infrastructure and advanced AI capabilities including Gemini Enterprise and Gemini models. Through this partnership, Google Cloud technologies will support the expansion of BNP Paribas’ infrastructure and AI capabilities as the Bank moves towards broader deployment of agentic…
Today at Sibos 2026 in Miami, Finastra announced the launch of Repair Recommendations – a new AI-powered capability within AI OperatorAssist. This move will help banks respond more quickly to growing payment activity by adding smarter decision-making into their existing workflows. Traditional payment processing issues like errors and disruptions cost the industry billions yearly, hinder seamless transactions, and…
Smartstream, the trusted data solutions provider for leading global financial institutions and enterprises, today announces a new version of Smart Reconciliations Premium, introducing agentic AI that can investigate, progress and resolve reconciliation exceptions autonomously. Settlement cycles compressed to T+1 leave no time to chase breaks across systems and inboxes, and audit expectations that rise never fall…
Zopa, the British digital bank pioneer with 2 million customers, has today launched the UK’s most advanced AI capabilities for everyday banking. Part of Zopa’s award-winning Biscuit account, “Ask Zopa” is designed to help millions of Brits manage their money simply by asking. Built on Zopa’s proprietary AI platform and agentic architecture, it enables customers to manage their…
As Parliament considers major reforms to the UK’s financial regulatory framework through the Financial Services and Markets Bill, new analysis from Zango AI suggests that the rise of increasingly autonomous AI is driving a broader rethink of how financial institutions are supervised. The analysis, which includes a foreword from the Rt Hon John Glen MP,…
More than one in ten online shoppers are expected to routinely use AI agents to purchase products on their behalf by 2030, according to a new Mastercard report, A Short History of the Future of Shopping and Payments.1 The report draws on Mastercard research and the perspectives of four world-leading futurists from the US, Europe and Asia. It explores how a fundamental shift in shopping habits…
Mambu, the founder of composable banking, trusted by financial institutions worldwide, today announced the launch of Intelligent Core, its strategic vision and technology architecture for bringing core banking, payments and agentic AI together through one open, composable platform. AI is fundamentally changing how quickly competitive advantage is won and lost in financial services, but most banks…
Nscale, the hyperscaler engineered for AI, today announced the closing of approximately $3 billion in aggregate commitments across two senior secured delayed draw term loan facilities (“DDTLs”), one supporting its Ward County, Texas campus and the other its Madison County, North Carolina site. The loan facilities, which have each received investment-grade ratings with stable outlooks,…
Microsoft and HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, today announced an expansion of their strategic collaboration at LEAP 2026, introducing new offerings spanning enterprise AI applications and AI-enabled devices. As part of the expanded partnership, HUMAIN and Microsoft intend to offer HUMAIN ONE with Microsoft 365, including Microsoft 365 Copilot and…
Starling Bank has today launched an agentic AI-powered ‘Starling Assistant’ to all business customers. The free in-app tool has been designed to boost productivity and cut admin by helping small businesses manage their day-to-day transactions, detect and avoid scams, and plan ahead using personalised financial insights. Starling Assistant goes beyond a standard Q&A by executing…
Payouts.com, the financial operating system for humans and AI agents, and the Casper Association, the Swiss non-profit stewarding the Casper Network blockchain, today announced a partnership to bring x402 agent payments into production. Payouts.com will support Casper Network, the first WebAssembly-native Layer 1 running x402 on mainnet, as a settlement rail for its AgentWallet and Digital Employees platform. Since Payouts.com already supports x402 natively, the…
Infosys, a global leader in AI-first business consulting and technology services, today announced a significant expansion of its long-standing collaboration with Metsä Group, a globally operating forest industry company based in Finland. Under this multi-year engagement, Infosys will support the transformation of Metsä Group’s IT landscape towards a more efficient, unified, and AI-ready operating model, while delivering end-to-end…
