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Napier AI joins Microsoft Marketplace with Continuum

Buyers are able to procure the entire Continuum suite or select individual modules covering client screening, transaction screening and transaction monitoring.

Singapore Retailers Embrace AI; Consumers Are More Cautious

In particular, businesses in Singapore are rapidly embracing agentic AI, with the adoption rate more than doubling in 2026 to reach 51%.

Coinbase Partners with Stablecore to Help Banks Offer Digital Asset Services

Coinbase and Stablecore are teaming up to help community and regional banks and credit unions offer digital asset services, including trading, custody, and stablecoin payments.

Zopa launches AI banking assistant which uses natural language

The AI tool can also help customers plan their finances by setting savings goals, creating budgets and monitoring spending.

Insurers see AI as a way to unblock admin bottlenecks

It found carriers estimate that about one in nine broker submissions is declined or left unquoted because they cannot keep pace, even where they have an appetite for the risk.

Why creativity still matters in the age of AI

If a machine can do the work, does the human part still matter?

AI threatens £700bn exodus from Britain’s biggest banks

Chatbots could help savers move their money in search of better returns, according to McKinsey

SA banks put AI value under the microscope

The analysis covers the combined local currency results of Absa, Capitec, FirstRand, Investec, Nedbank and Standard Bank

Personetics Launches AI Banking Console for Relationship Managers

It analyses financial activity to identify potential risks and opportunities across customer portfolios.

AI chatbots give incorrect financial advice 57% of the time, study shows

AI models made errors in 88% of responses to advanced finance-related queries.

Crypto exchange Binance takes on tradfi by courting rich investors to join its expanded wealth-management platform

Binance has been expanding its offerings beyond crypto and into traditional financial assets.

Circle, Ripple and Visa join $10 million funding round for stablecoin platform Velocity

Velocity’s platform is designed for CFOs and finance teams managing high-volume, cross-border flows.

TrueMoney Adds Fireblocks to Thai Baht Blockchain Payment Pilot

The second phase is open to up to 20,000 Thai and international participants until 31 December 2026.

Banking Circle Expands OSL Stablecoin Payments to Five More Currencies

Banking Circle will provide the infrastructure for settlement, conversion and liquidity management across OSL’s platforms.

Crypto exchange CoinEx winds down

Security and compliance are becoming ever more onerous aspects of running crypto businesses as regulators catch up with what was once a Wild West sector and hackers become more sophisticated in the era of AI.

TS Imagine ships AI platform for capital markets

TSIQ clients can apply TS Imagine’s unified data foundation to their own data in a secure environment, with confidence that every output is grounded in transparent logic and verifiable sources.

Singapore banks complete blockchain-enabled SGD transactions on Swift ledger

The ledger enables interbank payments using blockchain and tokenised deposits.

ChatGPT and Claude get financial advice wrong 57% of the time, potentially costing tens of thousands of pounds

Some AI models gave wrong answers to 99% of those more complex questions.

Stablecoins won’t kill the banks, they will kill the excuse

Every industry has its “load-bearing excuse” - the explanation that while true, conveniently absolves everyone of ambition. In the banking industry, for many years, the excuse has been the rails.

Ripple launches AI capabilities for enterprise treasury

Enterprise adoption of AI agents is accelerating faster than the governance around it.

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