Financial Services stories - Page 31

Banks are set to embed AI deep into payment systems by 2026, slashing costs as fraud surges and pressure mounts on platforms and regulators.

Ripple-owned GTreasury buys Australian fintech Solvexia to fuse treasury, reconciliation and compliance in one automated finance platform.

Teradata named a leader in Forrester's Q4 2025 Data Fabric Wave, highlighting its AI-focused roadmap, scale and real-time performance.

Radware doubles its global DDoS cloud capacity to 30 Tbps, adding AI-driven DefencePro X to counter rising large-scale and complex attacks.

Accurate address data is emerging as a critical, often overlooked weapon in the fight for reliable digital identity verification and fraud control.

Airwallex secures USD $330m at a USD $8b valuation and names San Francisco a dual global HQ as it ramps US expansion and AI investment.

1Kosmos and Reality Defender have teamed up to embed real-time deepfake detection into remote identity checks amid a surge in AI fraud.

Incode launches Deepsight AI, a three-layer defence to spot and block deepfakes in real time for banks, tech platforms and governments.

AI is accelerating software delivery but fuelling risky releases, burnout and customer disruption, exposing a widening “AI control gap”.

Linxens has launched Hint, a hidden sensor for e-passports and ID cards that alerts border checks to deliberate chip tampering and fraud.

Hitachi Vantara has named veteran executive Wendy Koh vice president of sales for Asia Pacific to drive AI data and hybrid cloud growth.

J.P. Morgan's Fusion platform has integrated Crunchbase AI, giving institutional investors live startup forecasts and early risk signals.

Snowflake and Anthropic deepen their Claude tie-up with a USD $200m deal to power regulated, enterprise-ready AI agents worldwide.

Salesforce appoints Paul Carvouni to spearhead ASEAN AI growth from Singapore as region targets trillion-dollar agentic enterprise boom.

AI-driven fraud, deepfakes and synthetic IDs are redefining 2026 risk, forcing firms to ditch reactive tools for layered, intelligent defence.

Agentic AI and digital disobedience will strain policy, security and governance in 2026 as autonomous firms and users test new limits.

Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is funding Global Signal Exchange to expand its shared threat data network against rising online fraud.

Identity security will become core infrastructure by 2026 as AI‑driven attacks, deepfakes and state hackers overwhelm old perimeter defences.

Security chiefs warn CISOs to pivot from AI hype to systemic cloud risk as supply-chain attacks on major platforms are set to soar.

AI is transforming loyalty from points to real-time, personalised journeys as super apps and agentic engagement engines rapidly take hold.