Banking & Finance

Mastercard is testing a probability score for AI-initiated payments and combining identity, intent, behaviour and fraud signals to support agentic-commerce authorisation decisions.

bolttech and Bold Penguin announced a global strategic partnership for a joint commercial and personal lines offering for agents, insurers and embedded partners in the U.S.,…

Antom (Ant International merchant payments) and Google Gemini announced partnership to expand access to Google AI Plus in Asia via A+Rewards channels

Fivecast said OPENSCREEN merges traditional screening data with social and online footprint intelligence in a single due-diligence risk report.

CCIP 2.0 live for institutions and digital-asset issuers — Cross-Chain Verifiers (CCVs), additive security, built-in compliance (KYC/AML/limits via Automated Compliance…

Deutsche Bank and IPID said they plan to deploy IPID payment decision intelligence across the bank’s global payments business.

LSEG Risk Intelligence said Active Intelligence, built with Amazon Bedrock, will power World-Check Resolve screening assists.

BNP Paribas plans Gemini-powered agents for credit memos and other CIB workflows, with authenticated access, monitored interactions and limits on which data can enter the public cloud.

Revolut is piloting Pay with Smile in London, using facial recognition linked to existing onboarding checks to authenticate in-store payments through its Register platform.

Feedzai unveils Farol embedded AI agent to cut fraud investigation times, the company said on 24 September 2026.

BriteCore introduced FNOL Copilot, Submission & Quote Copilot, enhanced Claims/Policy Copilots with actionable insights, Underwriting Workbench, and Open Agentic Core

Adyen upgraded Authenticate so machine learning routes each payment to 3DS, Google SPA or Mastercard and Visa passkeys, citing double-digit conversion lifts.

HappyRobot raised US$150m Series C at US$1.2bn valuation, naming DHL, Uber and others as customers.

The bank is allowing selected corporate customers to connect AI agents to Premium APIs to view their own financial data. The pilot is cautious, but strategically significant.

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