Fintech

New TransUnion data shows current-status consumers enrolling in debt settlement face steeper score drops than bankruptcy filers.

Feedzai's embedded AI agent targets fraud investigation latency as mandatory reimbursement rules raise the cost of financial crime.

Brickken's LFDT membership targets shared open standards for tokenised assets and agentic capital markets.

Feedzai's embedded AI agent targets the fragmentation gap stalling bank fraud teams, with SAR drafting claimed at 12x speed.

TBC UZ's 1.2 million-card Salom product adds a domestic rails partner, targeting one million new cards in Central Asia's fast-digitalising

F2 Strategy adds Salesforce and data-engineering depth to its wealth-management tech stack with its third acquisition of 2026.

Hedera contributes a bridgeless cross-ledger protocol to open-source governance, aiming to end liquidity trapping across tokenised asset networks.

Two cloud-native payments specialists combine processing and gateway into one API layer for acquirers battling legacy complexity.

Experian's Workday integration extends instant income verification to over half of US payroll employees, compressing mortgage and auto-loan decisioning.

Solaris Bank's ACI Connetic go-live marks a regulatory inflection point forcing eurozone banks to rebuild payments infrastructure at pace.

Esker's 2026 survey of 338 global finance leaders finds AI overspending and governance gaps are stalling the agentic finance era.

The J.P. Morgan and Vanguard veteran takes the helm of Broadridge's wealth platform as AI and digital assets reshape advisory models.

Insight Partners leads a $100m round in Numeral as AI-native tax infrastructure scales to 80m annual transactions across 90 countries.

The AI-native patent firm's a16z-backed launch signals that professional services economics are the next frontier for AI disruption.

Capital Intelligence gives GPs institutional-grade LP intelligence without leaving their existing CRM, as LP capital concentrates with fewer managers.

Hello Purple opens Purple Group's payments and trading stack to external founders, targeting the persistent infrastructure bottleneck in fintech product creation.

Avalara Aviator deploys specialised AI agents across tax workflows, signalling agentic automation's move into regulated finance operations.

A J.P. Morgan-led debt package backs Bird's Agentic Harness, letting AI agents call, text and email without human intervention.

Experian becomes the first personal finance app in Google Gemini's Connected App ecosystem, bringing FICO credit data into conversational AI.

Dubai conglomerate Al-Futtaim deploys Juspay's orchestration layer across 12 markets, laying groundwork for agentic commerce.