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Wall Street Hosts Africa Cocoa Forum
Wall Street to host Africa's cocoa finance and investment forum in New York.
Allafrica · 1m

Mashreq’s AI Agents Cut Integration Time Up to 70%
Mashreq’s AI agents reduce integration time by 70% in banking systems.
Pymnts · 1m

DLA Piper Adds Ryan Iskandar to APAC Finance Team
DLA Piper appoints Ryan Iskandar as partner to boost Asia-Pacific finance capabilities.
Pulse 2.0 · 1m

BRG Adds Compliance Experts
BRG hires three senior compliance professionals to strengthen financial advisory services.
Pulse 2.0 · 1m

Nvidia Secures $500B AI Infrastructure Deal
Nvidia partners with Wall Street giants to fund $500B AI infrastructure.
Dealroom · 1m

Leela CEO: AI Creates 10-Person Compliance Team
Leela's AI platform cuts compliance costs by handling 262 obligations for one client.
Pymnts · 1m

Mastercard Adds AI Risk Insights for Agentic Payments
Mastercard launches AI-powered risk tools to boost trust in automated payments.
Pymnts · 1m

Fraud Trends Put Fragmented Defenses Under Pressure
Scam victims taking weeks to pay force banks to connect fragmented fraud data.
Pymnts · 1m

Banks Connect Tokenized Deposits
U.K. and U.S. banks test tokenized deposits for live transactions.
Pymnts · 1m

State Bank Regulators Release AI Oversight Guide
State examiners now have a framework to assess AI use in banks and FinTech companies.
Pymnts · 1m
RBI updates InvIT and REIT valuation rules for financial institutions
RBI introduces clear valuation rules for InvIT and REIT units held by Indian banks
The Economic Times · 1m

China's New World Order Shift
China reshapes global order by offering alternatives to U.S.-led systems
TIME · 1m

ISO 42001 Could Standardize AI Governance in Payments
Payments firms gain AI oversight with ISO 42001 certification
Pymnts · 1m

Kastle raises $24M to bring AI agents to lenders
A startup says it has solved the adoption gap that keeps banks from deploying AI by letting agents work within existing systems.
Pymnts · 1m

States fill federal AI gap with bank exam playbook
State regulators release a framework for examining AI in banks, filling a void left by federal agencies that excluded generative AI from guidance.
Pymnts · 1m

Bottomline launches platform bridging payments and blockchain
New SaaS platform helps banks modernize payment infrastructure while connecting to blockchain networks.
Pymnts · 1m

Charities struggle to collect IRA gifts from deceased donors
Financial firms are holding up charitable bequests with excessive paperwork and account requirements, forcing nonprofits to spend months or years chasing funds.
CNBC · 4m

When fraud becomes the customer
AI is helping criminals impersonate real people so convincingly that banks need to rethink how they verify identity.
Pymnts · 3m

Banks deploy AI agents to audit every compliance case
AI agents promise banks continuous monitoring instead of sample-based audits, but only if humans stay in control of consequential decisions.
Pymnts · 1m

Revolut hackers demand $3 million ransom
A group calling itself iamnotavillain claims to have breached the British fintech and is threatening to sell customer data.
Pymnts · 1m

Banking's trust system faces new threats
Revolut and Federal Reserve incidents reveal how banks can be disrupted through compromised government channels and infrastructure, not just their own systems.
Pymnts · 2m

NIST proposes standard AI documentation for banks
Federal standards effort could create a common checklist for evaluating AI vendors, like a nutrition label for artificial intelligence systems.
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