Financial Services stories
Users will gain faster access to country risk insight as AlphaSense folds EIU forecasts and geopolitical analysis into its research platform.
By cutting template rebuilds, the update could lower switching costs for insurers, banks and other regulated firms modernising customer communications.
His remit comes as the consultancy seeks to capture rising demand from regulated industries wanting AI agents governed across complex workflows.
Customers using the beta report faster network changes and fewer manual checks, with IG Group saying firewall delivery time fell by roughly 95 percent.
Only 3% of senior marketers say their organisations are fully ready to use AI in marketing measurement, despite its speed benefits.
The seed round will fund a New York office and expansion across 150 markets as businesses shift to stablecoin-based cross-border payments.
Only 5.2% of organisations in Australia and New Zealand have scaled AI beyond pilots, with structure and workflows proving the biggest barriers.
Institutional clients in Singapore may soon gain access to regulated custody for cryptoassets and tokenised assets as demand grows for safer digital services.
The expansion will see its Singapore headcount rise above 300 as the fintech deepens its Southeast Asia base with a new financial district office.
The broker plans to expand its platform and hire more staff after backing from Committed Capital and ACF Investors lifted fresh investment to GBP £5 million.
The overhaul leaves the financial services group better able to separate workloads and govern data as it expands across Microsoft's platform.
Overlooked internal candidates can trigger a costly retention problem, with replacing a senior executive estimated to cost nearly £77,000.
The hire gives the UK cybersecurity provider a dedicated operator as it pushes to expand services and serve more than 150 organisations.
Small firms in Uzbekistan can now borrow up to 12 billion Uzbek Soum under a secured product, as TBC expands its digital business banking service.
Rising digital and AI demand helped the Leeds consultancy expand by a third in 2026, after a nine-hire August recruitment drive.
Businesses will be able to receive SWIFT transfers and push funds onward in one system, reducing the need for extra banking infrastructure.
The promotion underscores Manulife's push to simplify systems and expand AI across Asia as insurers race to modernise ageing technology.
The campaign exposed how an unknown financially motivated actor used AI tools to breach multiple South Korean financial firms and steal data.
Despite leading on passkeys and MFA, Indian firms still face widespread AI phishing and deepfake scams that are undermining daily security practice.
Smaller specialist models could save UK banks millions on compliance work while reducing reliance on a handful of US tech giants.