Latest Artificial intelligence News: Finextra Research

Company update/ai

Auquan launches AI credit agent

Auquan, the market leader in AI agents for mission-critical financial services work, today announced its Credit Agent, the first and only AI agent that autonomously completes entire credit analysis and monitoring workflows to provide comprehensive evaluation of lending opportunities and borrower performance.

17 September 2025

Company update/wholesale

Themis ships AI financial crime investigator

AI and Anti-Financial Crime pioneer Themis, a certified B-Corp, today announced the launch of AI Investigator — an intelligent LLM-driven due diligence platform designed to transform how organisations of all sizes detect and prevent financial crime.

17 September 2025

Company update/ai

Aveni upgrades FinLLM

Aveni, the leading UK AI Fintech, has today announced the next iteration of FinLLM – the UK’s first domain specific Large Language Model for the Financial Services sector.

17 September 2025

Finextra TV/security

Securing the Future: The Role of Collaboration in Protecting the Digital World

Stepping away from Mastercard's RiskX event, Johan Gerber, Global Head of Security Solutions at Mastercard joined the FinextraTV studio to discuss the importance of securing the digital ecosystem. Gerber discusses the complex balance between innovation and risk mitigation, and the importance of protecting the small businesses that play an outsized role in the global economy.

17 September 2025

Company update/security

Compass Plus introduces AI-powered, real-time fraud management package

Compass Plus Technologies, a global provider of retail banking and payments software, today announced the launch of FraudAxis, its next-generation fraud management platform designed to help financial institutions detect, prevent, and predict fraud in real time across all payment channels.

17 September 2025

Company update/ai

Yuno brings AI to bear on card declines, abandoned checkouts, and missed payments

Yuno, the global payment orchestration platform, announced the launch of NOVA, a series of AI agents that turns payment friction into growth for merchants.

17 September 2025

Company update/ai

GFT develops AI credit risk assessor

Global digital transformation company GFT Technologies announced its work to launch a generative AI powered credit risk assistant in the U.S. to inform and scale lending decisions for private capital firms and banks.

17 September 2025

Company update/people

Derek Kudsee to lead Unit4 Financials by Coda

Unit4, a leader in enterprise cloud applications for people-centric organisations, today announced the appointment of Derek Kudsee as Managing Director, Unit4 Financials by Coda, underpinning the company’s commitment to supporting its enterprise customers on the journey to transform the Office of the CFO for the era of Agentic AI.

17 September 2025

News/ai

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.

17 September 2025

News/ai

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.

17 September 2025

Research/Artificial intelligenceFuture of Report

The Future of Cross Border Payments 2026: Strategies for Success

17 September 2025 403 downloads

News/crime

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.

16 September 2025

Company update/payments

Pega launches agentic payments and investigations tool

Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), The Enterprise Transformation Company™, today announced Pega Smart Investigate Agentic Automation, a new edition of its payment exceptions and investigations solution.

16 September 2025

Company update/ai

FairPlay to validate Arva's AI AML Agents

Arva AI, a leader in financial crime prevention technology, today announced a partnership with FairPlay, the AI Enablement Company for the Financial Services industry, advancing the responsible adoption of agentic AI in financial services.

16 September 2025

News/ai

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.

16 September 2025

Company update/ai

Payhawk builds out AI Office of the CFO stack

Payhawk, the finance orchestration and spend management platform, today announced its Fall ’25 Product Edition, expanding its AI Office of the CFO stack.

16 September 2025

Company update/startups

Agentic AI customer service startup Clarity raises $12 million

Clarity, an AI-powered customer-experience and voice-of-customer (VoC) platform for highly regulated industries, has raised $12 million in new funding.

16 September 2025

News/security

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.

15 September 2025

Company update/ai

Dotfile introduces AI for autonomous Know Your Business case reviews

Dotfile, Europe’s leading AI powered compliance operating system, today announced Dotfile Autonomy, the industry first fully autonomous AI platform for Know Your Business (KYB) case review.

15 September 2025

News/startups

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.

12 September 2025