Latest Artificial intelligence News: Finextra Research

Company update/ai

Barker raises $3.5m to scale warrantied AI valuations for asset-backed lending

Barker, a pioneering Fintech firm that transforms illiquid asset valuations into insurance-backed instruments, secured $3.5 million in funding led by Walkabout VC.

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Company update/ai

Grasshopper and Narmi expand MCP security capabilities, add ChatGPT integration

Grasshopper, a client-first, full service digital bank, and Narmi, a leading digital-banking-platform provider, today announced the next evolution of their groundbreaking Model Context Protocol (MCP) server deployment, with expanded functionality to support ChatGPT from OpenAI, an AI research and development company, and OAuth 2.0-based authorization for secure, permissioned data access.

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Long read/Artificial intelligence

Hamish Monk Senior Reporter at Finextra

Why did Peter Thiel sell his AI stocks?

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Finextra TV/ai

How To Improve Data Intelligence Amongst Data-Rich Organisations

In Paris, at the SBS Summit 2024, Sivakumar Chidambarathanu, CIO, Nationwide spoke to her favourite topics: data and AI. Describing the continual transformation the IT industry goes through every 5-10 years, Chidambarathanu explained how many organisations are data-rich, but not data-intelligent and how a consolidated data stream is a strong starting point to improve these situations. Speaking to the growth in data officers across the industry, she outlines the newfound attention on data as a core principle.

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News/ai

Ramp hits $32bn valuation on latest raise

Expense management startup Ramp has seen its valuation double to $32 billion in just six months off the back of a $300 million primary financing round and an employee tender offer.

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Company update/ai

Aspire launches AI-embedded operating system

Aspire, the leading all-in-one finance platform for businesses, today announced the launch of AspireOS, a new modular platform that helps banks modernise their digital business banking.

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News/regulation

Ex-Revoluters raise $10 million for compliance startup

Condukt, an AI-based compliance startup founded by former employees of Revolut, has raised $10 million to support expansion into regulated financial services.

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News/ai

Primer launches AI companion for payments teams

London-based payments and commerce infrastructure provider Primer has launched an AI agent for payments teams.

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News/ai

Investing.com launches AI Chart analysis

Investing.com, a provider of financial news, tools and data to retail investors, has added an AI chart analysis feature.

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Research/Artificial intelligenceEvent Report

Holistic banking platform modernisation: Balancing innovation and business continuity

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Company update/startups

AI consultancy startup Valliance raises $15 million

Valliance, a new breed of consultancy set up to create true value from AI, launches today with $15 million in private equity backing from Siguler Guff and Company, LP, a private markets investment firm.

17 November 2025

Company update/ai

Private AI Compute: Google’s answer to secure, responsible AI in the cloud

For decades, Google has developed privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) to improve a wide range of AI-related use cases. Today, we’re taking the next step in building helpful experiences that keep users safe with Private AI Compute in the cloud, a new AI processing platform that combines our most capable Gemini models from the cloud with the same security and privacy assurances you expect from on-device processing. It's part of our ongoing commitment to deliver AI with safety and responsibility at the core.

14 November 2025

News/ai

easypaisa and TNG Digital adopt Ant International’s AI-as-a-Service platform

Ant International is partnering with TNG Digital, operating company of TNG eWallet, and Pakistani neobank easypaisa to deliver AI-powered customer experiences.

14 November 2025

News/ai

Finextra & Cloudera release global survey report on the state of AI adoption in financial services

Our latest Finextra global survey report ‘Turning AI potential into advantage: How financial services institutions are scaling AI’, produced in association with Cloudera, is now available to download.

14 November 2025

Company update/ai

PhonePe to bundle Chat GPT into mobile app

PhonePe today announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI, a leading global AI company, aimed at accelerating consumer adoption of ChatGPT in India and fostering mutual business growth.

13 November 2025

Company update/payments

Cash App rolls out 11 product updates

Cash App announced a slate of new features designed to match the ways millions of people manage their financial lives today.

13 November 2025

News/ai

MAS sets out AI risk management guidelines

The Monetary Authority of Singapore is to hold bank board members and senior staff responsible for manging risks from the deplyment of artificial intelligence.

13 November 2025

Company update/ai

Profile merges AI with wealth platform

Profile, a leading global provider of financial software solutions, announces a major new release of its flagship Axia Suite, introducing advanced Wealth Management features designed to better serve Retail and Mass Affluent investors.

13 November 2025