Latest Artificial intelligence News: Finextra Research

Barclays to roll out Microsoft Co-Pilot to 100,000 staff

Barclays Bank is to extend its delivery of Microsoft Co-Pilot AI agents to 100,000 staff worldwide.

10 June 2025

How The History of Payments Has Always Been Modernisation

While attending EBA Day 2025, Phoebe Zhou, Head of Emerging Payments, HSBC joined the FinextraTV studio. Helping to contextualise the conversation, Zhou gave a historical reflection on how the payments industry has evolved before setting out the key modern innovations. From cryptocurrency to instant payments and fraud, Zhou provides a clear and broad overview of our current state of payments and how, when we reflect, we can see that payments has always been in a state of digital transformation

09 June 2025

News/ai

FCA sets up 'Supercharged Sandbox' for AI experimentation

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority is to set up a 'Supercharged Sandbox' to help firms experiment with innovative AI applications.

09 June 2025

News/markets

PitchBook: AI disruption rises, VC optimism cools in H1 2025

The latest PitchBook survey finds that venture capital investors are making "strategic adjustments as they navigate geopolitical uncertainty and technological transition."

06 June 2025

Company update/ai

Datasite acquires Grata

Datasite, the global SaaS provider of AI-powered workflow collaboration and automation solutions for M&A, investment and strategic projects, today announced that it has acquired Grata, a leading AI-native, private market intelligence company. CapVest Partners LLP (CapVest), the controlling shareholder of Datasite, intends to invest $500 million, organically and inorganically, to further expand Datasite’s intelligence solutions.

06 June 2025

Company update/regulation

A third of EMEA-based firms are already using AI for compliance

A third of EMEA firms are already using AI in compliance, and 71.4% plan to introduce it in the next year – with EMEA firms also much less likely to ban communications like WhatsApp for business use

06 June 2025

Finextra TV/ai

AI: The Inflection Point for Payments

Speaking at EBAday 2025, Peter Hazou, Business Development Director, Financial Services, Microsoft, highlights how the banking industry has adapted to the introduction of AI, where we are seeing the most tangible impact from AI and new technologies, and how banks are currently tackling the conflict of AI being both an enabler and a security risk.

06 June 2025

News/ai

Bank of England tests AI to spot real-time payment fraud

A project by the Bank of England and the London BIS Innovation Hub to use AI to spot unfolding and novel financial crime patterns in real-time retail payment systems showed promise but threw up a number of limitations to its efficacy.

06 June 2025

News/ai

Meta taps Klarna for 'Play Now, Pay Later' headset offer

Meta has teamed up with BNPL firm Klarna to launch a 'Play Now, Pay Later' bundle for its mixed reality headsets in the UK.

06 June 2025

Company update/payments

Bolt and Palantir usher in new era of intelligent e-commerce at the checkout

Bolt, a leading checkout technology company, and Palantir Technologies Inc., a leading provider of AI software, today announced a strategic partnership to usher in a new era of intelligent ecommerce checkout—one that's personalized, dynamic and deeply informed by data.

05 June 2025

News/cloud

CommBank completes 100% AWS data migration

Australia's CommBank, has completed the migration of 100% of its data to AWS in a bid to accelerate the deployement of AI across the bank.

05 June 2025

News/ai

Liberis builds AI underwriting agent

Embedded business finance platform Liberis has launched a proprietary AI underwriting agent built to boost accuracy and slash decision times.

05 June 2025

Company update/ai

ZestyAI secures deal with Kin Insurance

ZestyAI today announced a new partnership with Kin Insurance, a direct-to-consumer, digital home insurance provider committed to serving catastrophe-exposed markets.

04 June 2025

Company update/payments

Pair Finance brings digital first debt collection to Poland and opens office in Warsaw

Most people have a negative association with debt collection. PAIR Finance is out to change that.

04 June 2025

News/ai

Ant International ships Alipay+ GenAI Cockpit

Ant International has unveiled Alipay+ GenAI Cockpit, an AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) platform that empowers fintech companies and super apps to build AI-agentic and ultimately AI-native financial services.

04 June 2025

News/ai

Westpac pilots AI assistant to help staff deal with customers who have been scammed

Westpac has built an AI assitant to help support staff deal with customers who think they've been scammed.

04 June 2025

Company update/people

Commerzbank names Oliver Dörler as chief data and AI officer

Commerzbank is consolidating its activities related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) as part of its strategic upgrade “Momentum,” introduced at the beginning of the year. As part of this, the Bank has created the new role of Chief Data & AI Officer.

03 June 2025

Company update/ai

Feedzai launches AI-driven fraud detection tech powered by network intelligence

Feedzai, the global leader in AI-native financial crime prevention, today announced the launch of Feedzai IQ, a new family of solutions that enables network fraud intelligence without compromising customer privacy.

03 June 2025

News/security

BBVA mobile banking app uses AI to protect users from shoulder-surfing

BBVA has added an artificial intelligence engine to its mobile banking app that hides user's data when it detects when more than one pair of eyes is viewing the screen.

03 June 2025

Finextra TV/regulation

Why Lending in 2025 Now Faces an Entirely New Dynamic

Joining the FinextraTV virtual studio, David Ruis, Partner, Deloitte and Anthony Nonnis, Head of Global Partnerships, Mambu, discuss how banking as an industry is currently experiencing new dynamics and the emergence of alternative lenders. Examining how the current regulatory and geopolitical situation is impacting innovation, they outline the transformation that is now taking place with AI technologies throughout the lending journey.

03 June 2025