Latest DevOps News: Finextra Research

Monzo co-founder Blomfield predicts AI will wipe out software engineering jobs

Monzo co-founder and Y Combinator partner Tom Blomfield has kicked up a stir by tolling the death knell of the humble software engineer, claiming that AI will soon be "provably and obviously better at basically every facet" of coding.

03 April 2025

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Experian doubles innovation office space in India

Experian has significantly expanded its Global Innovation Centre (GIC) in Hyderabad, doubling its office space.

01 April 2025

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Australia's CommBank opens collaborative Tech Hub in Seattle

Australia's Commonwealth Bank has opened a dedicated Tech Hub in Seattle to equip its IT staff with first-hand experience of emerging developments in cuting-edge technologies, such as AI and cloud.

28 March 2025

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Deutsche Bank invests in governance automation platform Kosli

Deutsche Bank has co-led a $10 million Series A funding round for Norwegian compliance automation technology provider Kosli.

20 March 2025

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CommBank's x15Ventures invests in Xccelerate winner Gable

CommBank's venture scaling arm x15Ventures has invested in Seattle-based data management startup Gable, which emerged as the winner from a field of fintechs participating in its latest Xccelerate24 programme.

20 February 2025

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Shawbrook slashes mortgage product development time by 88%

Shawbrook Bank has used technology and DevOps development training from AND Digital to reduce the time required to switch mortgage products from 107 days to just 13.

10 February 2025

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Caixabank tech subsidiary to hire 500 developers

The technology subsidiary of Caixabank is to hire 500 developers in the first quarter, surpassing 1600 employees.

28 January 2025

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Agentic AI: Citi GPS explores future of finance in the ‘do it for me’ economy

Citi GPS, Citi’s thought leadership product, last week released a report exploring the transformative potential of agentic artificial intelligence (AI), a cutting-edge advancement enabling AI systems to make decisions and execute tasks autonomously.

20 January 2025

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Putin orders Russian bank to cooperate with China on AI

Sberbank, Russia’s largest financial institution, has been told to work with China on the development of AI-based services.

02 January 2025

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Finextra's year in review

With 2024 drawing to a close, we take a look back at our most popular news items and community engagement activities over the course of the past year.

23 December 2024

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NextGen: AI: AI’s impact on regulation, operational resilience and customer experience

With standards like the EU AI Act coming to the fore, and with the drive towards digital not slowing down, the last panel of the day discussed AI’s impact on regulation and customer experience.

27 November 2024

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NextGen: AI: Busting five AI myths

The next afternoon panel was moderated by Debi Bell-Hosking, with speakers consisting of Dr Janet Bastiman, chief data scientist, Napier AI; Stuart McDowell, UK CIO, Societe Generale; and David Tracy, head of data products, Smart Data Foundry.

27 November 2024

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