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Rekord raises $2.1m to power credit decisioning

Rekord, a Dublin-based startup building an AI-native orchestration platform for credit decisioning, has raised $2.1 million in pre-seed funding.

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SoftBank Vision Fund lays off 20% of staff to make room for AI ambitions

Fintech venture capital firm, SoftBank Vision Fund, will be axing 20% of its staff in a push to boost AI investment.

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Nvidia invests £2 billion into UK AI ecosystem including Revolut, Nscale - Bloomberg

Nvidia Corp has pledged £2 billion to fund AI innovation and development in the UK, investing in AI companies, fintech firms, and startups.

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UK dominates European fintech funding

The UK accounted for more than half of European fintech venture funding in the first half of 2025, as the sector reached a point of maturity following a difficult couple of years, according to a Finch Capital report.

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Google and PayPal agree multi-year commerce collaboration

Google and PayPal have agreed a multi-year collaboration to advance agentic shopping and frictionless commerce payments.

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Stripe alumnus launches AI-powered business account for European startups

A former senior executive at Stripe has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding to build an AI-powered business account for European startups.

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Two-thirds of banking sector AI research driven by five banks

JPMorgan Chase is responsible for more than a third of all banking sector AI research, according to data from benchmarking and intelligence platform Evident.

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HSBC Private Bank to equip client-facing staff with AI

HSBC Private Bank is to roll out OpenAI's Large Language Model to client facing staff, investment counsellors and product specialists to provide quality market insight and personalised investment strategies to high net worth customers.

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WorkFusion raises $45m for financial crime compliance AI agents

WorkFusion, a fintech building AI agents for financial crime compliance, has raised $45 million in a funding round led by Georgian.

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Fraud prevention platform Seon raises $80m

Fraud prevention and AML compliance specialist Seon has raised $80 million in a series C funding round led by Sixth Street Growth.

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Google unveils Agent Payments Protocol to power AI commerce

Google has unveiled an open protocol designed to serve as the foundation needed to enable AI agents to transact payments on behalf of users and merchants.

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Swift and top banks test use of AI and data sharing to fight financial fraud

Bank-to-bank messaging network Swift is hailing the results of tests that used a combination of AI and cross-border data sharing to double real time fraud detection in trials involving 13 top tier banks and ten million test transactions.

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Eloquent AI raises $7.4m to automate FS customer support

Eloquent AI, a startup focused on customer support automation for financial services, has launched its AI Operator platform and closed a $7.4 million seed round.

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Alipay's agentic AI tech goes live with coffee ordering app Luckin

Singaporean mobile coffee ordering app Luckin Coffee has integrated with Alipay's AI agent for agentic ordering and payments via a conversational interface.

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Citi and US Bank customers get first access to Mastercard Agent Pay

Citi and US Bank customers will be the first to get access to Mastercard's agentic payments technology ahead of a global rollout.

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PayPal gives users early access to Perplexity AI browser

PayPal and Venmo users in some countries are being offered early access to Perplexity's new AI-powered web browser.

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Ant unit debuts agentic AI payments tech

Ant International's Antom unit has launched an agentic AI payments offering that supports both card-based and alternative methods.

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ID.me hits $2bn valuation on funding to tackle AI fraud

Digital identity wallet ID.me has hit a $2 billion valuation after raising $340 million across a funding round, combined with a credit facility.

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Revolut signs multi-million dollar deal with Google Cloud

Revolut has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal with Google Cloud to drive global growth.

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Banks set to accelerate spend on AI as productivity surges

Lloyds’ Financial Institutions Sentiment Survey finds that UK financial firms are doubling down on AI as producivity surges.