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Visa Readies Rollout of AI Financial Assistant for Banking Apps
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (453+ words) Visa will soon begin piloting an AI Financial Assistant that financial institutions will be able to add to their banking apps to offer artificial intelligence-powered conversational financial guidance to cardholders. Visa will make the AI Financial Assistant available to financial…...
Slack Acquisitions: When Startup Innovation Gets Lost After the Deal
2+ week, 2+ day ago (177+ words) By: Marco Corradi (CLS Blue Sky Blog) UK Competition Watchdog Escalates £2 Billion Nexfibre–Netomnia Deal to In-Depth Merger Probe Jul 2, 2026 by CPI Germany Raises Concerns Over EU Draft Merger Guidelines, Warning of Potential Conflict With Existing Law Jul 2, 2026 by CPI…...
FinTech Finds a New Category in AI’s Untracked Costs
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (539+ words) As artificial intelligence agents spread across enterprise operations, spend management platforms are racing to fill a gap that traditional finance systems were never built to handle. Ramp, a financial operations platform, raised $750 million at a $44 billion valuation this month, nearly…...
Databricks Launches Agentic Coworker Fueled by All Business Data
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (406+ words) Databricks has launched an agentic coworker called Genie One designed to help business teams automate and orchestrate their work across data from inside or outside Databricks. Genie One is the successor to the first generation of Genie, which only used…...
Agentic AI and Banks: Who Signs Off on the Machine?
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (342+ words) Agentic AI can perform multistep banking workflows rather than simply provide recommendations. Fraud prevention depends on controlling what AI agents are permitted to do, not just what they can access. Banks are becoming comfortable with automation. Software reviews transactions, flags…...
Big Data Has a Bigger Execution Problem
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (660+ words) The financial services sector has spent the better part of a decade treating data as the definitive competitive asset. Whoever has the most transaction history, the richest behavioral signals, the deepest customer profiles, wins. That intuition has shaped acquisition strategies,…...
PYMNTS | AI Agents Turn Open Banking Into an Accountability Test
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (60+ words) This week, Fiserv launched an operating system built to deploy and govern AI agents across core banking workflows at scale....
PYMNTS | Banks and FinTechs Watch as Regulators Redraw Data Rules
2+ mon, 1+ day ago (15+ words) European Commission economist Bruno Carballa-Smichowski says data dominance is hardening into permanent market structure....
Fiserv and OpenAI Bring Frontier AI to Banks
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (356+ words) Fiserv has announced an agentic artificial intelligence (AI) operating system designed for banking and a collaboration with OpenAI to put frontier AI to work for financial institutions. The new operating system, agentOS, is designed to help financial institutions deploy, manage…...
Data Is Dead as a Competitive Advantage. 12 Executives Share What’s Next
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (1323+ words) As companies move from stockpiling data to operationalizing it, 12 payments leaders share with PYMNTS why, against a backdrop where data has become abundant and even commoditized, the new competitive battleground is shifting toward speed, context, and execution at scale. The…...