FinAi firms spending big bucks on Super Bowl LX ads
As the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots face off in the Super Bowl on Feb. 8, many FinAi companies will be showcasing...
AI provider Hapax giving free AI crash course to bankers
AI financial solutions provider Hapax is providing free AI education to employees of financial institutions like USAA and Comerica Bank with its AI Certification for Bankers program. The Austin, Texas-based company launched its AI Certification for Bankers (AICB) program in...
Santander expects to save $280M in tech costs through 2028 by acquiring Webster
Santander Bank predicts its $12 billion acquisition of Webster Bank will provide it with additional synergies of more than $800 million through 2028 and result in a savings of $280 million in technology...
PayPal building an AI agent catalog
Digital payments company PayPal is building a catalog to help AI agents make online purchases. “Our vision is to create a universally trusted catalog that AI agents...
Banking Advisor by nCino will have over 100 AI capabilities this month
Digital banking service provider nCino is planning new capabilities to its gen AI-driven Banking Advisor platform and aims to have over 100 functionalities this...
Visa and Mastercard bet on agentic AI
Payments networks Visa and Mastercard are moving toward deployment of their agentic AI payments tools globally in 2026, leadership at both said during their earnings calls this week. These agentic...
Lloyds ‘value’ from gen AI to reach $119M in 2026
Lloyds Banking Group is seeing value from its generative AI spend and looking to double this in 2026 with more training, agentic AI deployment, and cost savings. In 2025, the $1 trillion London-based Lloyds reported...
LendingClub’s AI-driven underwriting model yields 40% fewer delinquencies
Online lender LendingClub is deploying AI throughout its operations, including to improve underwriting. “At this point, there's probably not a department in the company that is untouched in...
Q&A with GFT Technologies’ Kaushal Sheth, chief tech officer for US
Kaushal Sheth is the first U.S. chief technology officer for Stuttgart, Germany-based digital banking service provider GFT Technologies, which sees the United States as a major growth market. The $1...
Extend CEO: Brex acquisition a ‘net good’ for the industry
Financial services executives see Capital One’s planned acquisition of AI driven spend management and business banking service provider Brex as good for the industry. “Increasingly companies see financial services...
