AI applications in financial services, including trading platforms, FinTech, risk management solutions, accounting systems, and wealth management technologies.
Norm Law launched a Finance practice led by Ram Burshtine, who joins from Sidley Austin. The practice will serve funds, asset managers, financial institutions, corporate borrowers, and other investors.
Assureful and CedCommerce launched a program to distribute Pay-As-You-Sell commercial general liability insurance to eCommerce merchants in the United States.
Equity Trust Company expanded its Crypto IRA lineup with an AI powered automated option and a self traded account for holding digital assets in retirement accounts.
OpenTug and Blessey Marine Services are working together to use BargeOS Invoice Intelligence for voyage invoicing, with automation for invoice capture, matching, validation, and reconciliation.
Farsight has expanded its PitchBook integration to bring PitchBook Premium private capital data into its web application for financial workflows.
Accel has closed an oversubscribed $550 million India fund and expects to start deploying the capital in 2027.
Quantinuum and Oracle announced a multiyear partnership to deploy the Helios quantum computer in an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure AI data center in the United States.
Notation Labs has launched LeakSecure Platform 3.0, a cloud and AI based platform that connects water monitoring devices, alerts, customer apps and service workflows.
Appian and Synechron introduced Open Underwriting Stack, a reference architecture that combines InsureMESH with the Appian Platform to help insurance carriers add AI process automation to underwriting workflows.
Fastino Labs released two open weight models for finance and healthcare, both post trained on NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license.
Francisco Partners has agreed to acquire Canadian payments company Moneris from BMO and RBC for about C$2.0 billion, with closing expected by the end of the banks' first fiscal quarter of 2027.
FM has acquired FortressFire, a wildfire intelligence provider that uses machine learning and physics based modeling. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Absa Bank says SAS Viya on AWS reduced credit risk reporting cycles by 80% to 90%, moving model monitoring reports from weeks to hours.
Section 2 has launched with Hybrid Threat Central, an AML platform that uses Google Cloud and Vertex AI to identify criminal networks behind financial crime.
Datarails launched the AI Transformation Package, a service that places a Forward Deployed Financial Engineer inside customer finance teams to build custom AI workflows in FinanceOS.
STX has deployed Eventus Validus to monitor trading on its planned regulated event contracts market covering sports, crypto and other real world events.
Cryptoworth launched an AI Reconciliation Agent that helps enterprise finance teams reconcile portfolio data, investigate exceptions, and approve corrective actions with audit controls.
Bloomberg has added Insider Dealing and Personal Trading models to Bloomberg Vault to help compliance teams monitor electronic communications for potential policy and conduct risks.
BestEx Research launched Pulse AI, a trading analytics interface that lets institutional desks query market data and execution analytics through AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT.
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