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Fintech
AI & ML

nCino launches agentic mortgage suite to cut 59-hour approvals

nCino's new Loan Officer Productivity Suite uses agentic AI to compress mortgage pre-approval cycles from days to minutes.
nCino's new Loan Officer Productivity Suite uses agentic AI to compress mortgage pre-approval cycles from days to minutes.
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Fintech
AI & ML

eToro brings MCP connectors to Claude, ChatGPT and Grok

The Nasdaq-listed trading platform lets retail investors query live portfolios through AI assistants, marking a step toward agentic investing.
The Nasdaq-listed trading platform lets retail investors query live portfolios through AI assistants, marking a step toward agentic investing.
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Travel
Aerospace
AI & ML

Flyte Aviation lists as VJET with AI booking play for private jets

A former medical-device firm rebrands as a private aviation tech platform, targeting a fragmented $11.6bn US charter market.
A former medical-device firm rebrands as a private aviation tech platform, targeting a fragmented $11.6bn US charter market.
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AI & ML
Fintech

Farseer Co-Founder Answers the Bank of England's AI Warning

Matej Trbara, co-founder of FP&A platform Farseer, on black box forecasts, correlated model risk and what regulators should demand of AI in finance.

The Bank of England has warned that the adoption of artificial intelligence could pose risks to financial stability, including the danger that firms converging on similar models and similar data end up making the same mistake at the same moment.

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Fintech

Zirtue's Dennis Cail on the bills families cannot cover alone

Zirtue co-founder Dennis Cail on what a million families' bill requests say about US household budgets, and why the money goes to the biller, not the borrower.
Zirtue is a US relationship-based lending platform that lets people ask family and friends for a loan to pay a specific bill, with the money sent directly to the biller and repayment terms agreed up front.The company says more than a million families
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Fintech

Verto's Ola Oyetayo on why African firms still cannot pay abroad

Verto co-founder Ola Oyetayo on the hidden cost of single-currency cards for African businesses, what its Visa card needed, and what must change next.

Verto, the London-based cross-border payments platform built for businesses trading with and from Africa, launched a multi-currency corporate card with Visa in September.

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Fintech

Pebblio's Alex Postlethwaite on the UK's unofficial overdraft

Pebblio founder Alex Postlethwaite on research showing half of UK adults lend or borrow within their circle, why it goes wrong, and what regulators should do.

Half of UK adults lent or borrowed money within their family or friendship group in the past year, according to research commissioned by Pebblio, a UK web application that helps friends and family put interest-free loans between themselves in writing.&nbs

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Fintech

Mia Wealth's Sophia Jarvis on investing for children as a gift

Mia Wealth co-founder Sophia Jarvis on building a children's investing app around gifting, what stops families using Junior ISAs, and what the beta showed.

Mia Wealth is a new UK family investing and gifting app built to make investing for a child as easy as buying them a toy.

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Transportation & Logistics
Fintech
Energy

WEX and Mastercard unify APAC fleet payments in $310bn market

WEX and Mastercard launch a unified fleet payment network across Asia-Pacific, targeting a $310bn annual transaction market growing at 14% a year.
WEX and Mastercard launch a unified fleet payment network across Asia-Pacific, targeting a $310bn annual transaction market growing at 14% a year.
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AI & ML
Biotech
Robotics

HCLTech launches 20 industry AI solutions across six sectors

HCLTech's purpose-built AI portfolio spans banking to aerospace, targeting enterprise scale-up beyond the pilot stage.
HCLTech's purpose-built AI portfolio spans banking to aerospace, targeting enterprise scale-up beyond the pilot stage.
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Fintech
Cybersecurity
AI & ML

Feedzai index exposes 13-point AI readiness gap in global banking

A 1,000-leader survey finds banks overrate their fraud readiness by 13 points while agentic AI adoption stalls on data fragmentation.
A 1,000-leader survey finds banks overrate their fraud readiness by 13 points while agentic AI adoption stalls on data fragmentation.
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Fintech
AI & ML

AvaTrade to acquire majority of FXCM in online trading consolidation

Dublin-based AvaTrade absorbs one of retail forex's oldest brands, accelerating its push to dominate global multi-asset trading.
Dublin-based AvaTrade absorbs one of retail forex's oldest brands, accelerating its push to dominate global multi-asset trading.
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Fintech
AI & ML

CaixaBank extends Google Cloud deal to 2033 in agentic AI push

Spain's largest digital bank locks in a seven-year Google Cloud pact, deploying agentic AI across its 13 million-strong customer base.
Spain's largest digital bank locks in a seven-year Google Cloud pact, deploying agentic AI across its 13 million-strong customer base.
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Fintech
AI & ML

eToro plugs portfolios into Claude, ChatGPT and Grok via MCP

eToro's MCP connectors let retail investors query live holdings inside AI assistants, signalling a pivot from market access to agentic intelligence.
eToro's MCP connectors let retail investors query live holdings inside AI assistants, signalling a pivot from market access to agentic intelligence.
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Fintech
Datatech

Stoa links idle cash to cloud storage in fintech-utility convergence

UK fintech Stoa lets consumers unlock cloud storage via deposits, blurring the line between savings products and everyday digital subscriptions.
UK fintech Stoa lets consumers unlock cloud storage via deposits, blurring the line between savings products and everyday digital subscriptions.
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AI & ML
Fintech

Bluevine: Banking the Founders Building US Companies From India

Aditya Narula of Bluevine explains why India-origin founders are incorporating in the US from day one and what cross-border SMB banking must get right.

Bluevine, the US digital business banking platform for small and medium-sized businesses, has strengthened its focus on India to support India-origin businesses operating in or expanding to the US, backed by local investment across engineering, product, o

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Blockchain
Fintech

Broadridge DLR hits $7.5tn in repo as tokenisation scales

Broadridge's blockchain repo platform hit $359bn daily in September, as it launches DLX to extend tokenisation across asset classes.
Broadridge's blockchain repo platform hit $359bn daily in September, as it launches DLX to extend tokenisation across asset classes.
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Retail & E-Commerce
AI & ML
Cybersecurity

Riskified launches agent identity tool as AI shoppers blur fraud lines

Agentic checkout assistants are rewriting retail fraud detection, forcing merchants to ask not "is this a bot?" but "who authorised it?"
Agentic checkout assistants are rewriting retail fraud detection, forcing merchants to ask not "is this a bot?" but "who authorised it?"
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Fintech
AI & ML

BMLL and Simudyne build Large Market Models for AI trading simulation

Historical order-book data meets generative AI as two fintech firms create reactive market simulators for capital markets.
Historical order-book data meets generative AI as two fintech firms create reactive market simulators for capital markets.
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Fintech
AI & ML

Thought Machine and AWS target Tier 1 bank mainframe debt with AI

A joint Vault Forge and AWS Transform pipeline converts COBOL mainframe logic into cloud-native products, compressing multi-year migrations into days.
A joint Vault Forge and AWS Transform pipeline converts COBOL mainframe logic into cloud-native products, compressing multi-year migrations into days.
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