AI applications in financial services, including trading platforms, FinTech, risk management solutions, accounting systems, and wealth management technologies.
The Annual Conference of Beijing’s Financial Street Forum 2025 gathered over 6,000 participants and featured new guidance on applying large AI models in the financial industry.
HSBC has selected ValidiFI to provide advanced account validation and fraud monitoring for credit card payment accounts, using real-time data intelligence to detect suspicious activity and verify account ownership.
McKay Brothers has received minority investments from Optiver and Qube Research & Technologies to support its global data and connectivity business, while maintaining independent operations.
Happiest Minds Technologies has implemented its Agentic AI solution with Intelligent Document Processing at MUA Insurance Acceptances in South Africa, automating email and document workflows with 99.5% accuracy.
BillingPlatform has launched an AI Monetization offering to help companies manage complex consumption-based billing models for AI products and services.
SecureLend Inc has launched an AI-powered lending platform that speeds up loan origination for community banks and alternative lenders by up to ten times, according to a press release. The platform, currently under review by AWS AI Accelerator partner Devoteam, features a large language model-agnostic architecture enabling institutions to switch between providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Gemini.
Nationwide announced a $1.5 billion investment in technology innovation through 2028, including $100 million annually for AI over the next three years. The company aims to improve efficiency, service, and security across its financial partner network.
FP Alpha has released NextGen Tax Insights, an AI-driven tool that provides financial advisors with personalized, data-backed tax insights for clients, following a successful beta test.
Thunes and Ecobank Group have announced a partnership to enable instant cross-border payments across Sub-Saharan Africa, beginning with Togo and expanding throughout Ecobank’s 32-country network.
Bank of America announced record usage of its AI-driven CashPro Chat and transaction search features, with nearly 70% of corporate clients using the tools for treasury management.
Chronograph announced a collaboration with Anthropic to integrate its private capital portfolio data into Claude, enabling institutional investors to query and analyze their data using natural language.
PayPal has launched agentic commerce services, introducing 'agent ready' and 'store sync' to help merchants integrate with AI shopping platforms and streamline payments and product discovery.
iBusiness has launched iBuild, an AI-driven platform that allows financial institutions to generate and securely deploy code in minutes, expanding beyond traditional AI coding tools.
PayPal will integrate its payment services into ChatGPT using OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol, allowing users to complete purchases directly in chat and making millions of merchants discoverable within the platform.
Mastercard and PayPal are expanding their partnership to integrate Mastercard’s Agent Pay platform into PayPal’s wallet, enabling secure AI-initiated payments for consumers and merchants worldwide.
Hadrius and Salus GRC have announced a strategic partnership to deliver unified AI-powered compliance solutions for financial services, integrating governance, risk, and compliance tools to streamline oversight and reporting.
Zafin has announced a collaboration with Curinos to embed commercial benchmark pricing data into its Deal Manager solution, enabling banks to improve deal pricing accuracy and billing integrity.
DXC Technology and Splitit have announced a collaboration that enables banks to provide installment payment options to account holders, powered by AI personalization and integrated with DXC’s Hogan core banking platform.
OpenAI has enlisted over 100 former investment bankers to train its AI on building financial models as part of a confidential initiative called Project Mercury, paying participants $150 an hour to develop and refine models for tasks like IPOs and restructurings.
Beacon.li introduced a new AI orchestration layer at ITC Vegas 2025 to automate insurance operations, reducing quote times by up to 70% and handling over 80% of policy inquiries automatically.
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