Banking & Finance

Socure is valued at $5.2bn in a Summit Partners-led growth investment and buys agentic fraud-operations platform Fravity, folding it into RiskOS.

three releases — Projects (workbench for live deal analysis), Centari Intelligence available across the platform with citations, and Tasks for human-in-the-loop verification queues

Carpe’s Minerva Reasoning Engine applies carrier appetite rules to business data and returns source-backed quote, decline or refer calls for small-commercial risks.

Brightflag’s MCP connector lets legal teams query matter, vendor and spend data from Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP-compatible AI workspaces.

Personetics will combine Plaid open-finance data with banks’ own account data to deliver AI-personalised insights and next best actions in digital channels.

bolt’s Connected Distribution platform brings customer data, workflows and carrier access for admitted, E&S and wholesale lines into one AI system.

nCino releases Mortgage MCP for AI agent connections to Mortgage Suite Mortgage MCP lets lenders connect MCP-compatible AI agents to nCino Mortgage Sui

Visa has agreed to buy behavioural fraud intelligence firm BioCatch from Permira-advised funds and other shareholders for US$2.4 billion in cash.

Fraud prevention firm Callsign has joined the FIDO Alliance as a Sponsor member and will contribute to working groups on passkeys and AI agent authentication.

Encore AI, formerly Insait IO, has raised a US$30m Series A led by Team8, Planven and The Garage to deploy AI agents built to drive revenue.

Glassbox has launched Pulse, an AI operational intelligence engine, and an MCP Server that gives enterprise AI agents governed access to its journey data.

Identity and fraud platform Alloy says more than 900 financial institutions and fintechs now use it, after launching an agentic AI Assistant in H1 2026.

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SoundHound AI says Gartner has named it a Leader in the 2026 Magic Quadrant for Conversational AI Platforms, citing its voice-native Amelia 7 platform.