At Finovate 2025, fraud-focused fintechs demo the power of AI agents, behavioral science, and graph technology to fight financial fraud A new cohort of fintech firms is determined to disrupt and eradicate financial fraud, in all its permutations. That was the message at Finovate 2025 in New York, an annual conference where innovators in a […]
Echoing across the fintech world, news broke today that Plaid will pay JPMorgan Chase for their customers’ data. “The data access agreement will continue the long relationship between the two companies, who have helped lead their industries in connecting consumers to their banking data. The agreement, which includes a pricing structure, outlines a series of […]
Token for your thoughts? A flurry of activity indicates the technology may have hit an inflection point in the financial industry, as companies look to buffer against digital fraudsters and ensure transactions settle faster in an environment where threats to money transfers appear to be exponentially increasing due to the sophistication of AI technology. Tokenizing […]
“We all play duplicative roles, which is why a network model is what we built as the solution for this open-access problem. So it’s much more complex than, the fintechs are on one side and the banks are another.” Amidst the litigious frenzy that threw the future of open banking in the air, SOLO, a […]
The AI rivalry between the U.S. and China has a new front: the physical world of robotics. China announced this week its X?Square Robot open-sourced Wall?OSS, its foundational model for embodied intelligence, making it available to developers on GitHub and Hugging Face. Just as Linux going open source upended the software world and pioneered the […]
Robots and autonomous machines and industrial systems, oh my! AI agents are reshaping the digital workplace, automating analysis, decisions, and workflows. But if software agents are the brains of the enterprise, humanoid robots are about to become its hands and feet. “The next big thing is Physical AI, AI with a body,” Nvidia’s Jensen Huang […]
Trogni’s vision for Zinnia is industry standardization and full-stack, in the literal sense: “I strongly believe you cannot fix data and technology from the middle down. You have to start at the origination point…Our goal is to ensure that every family in North America has the financial longevity to match their wellness and health longevity.” […]
As Klarna IPOs today, the fintech sector is closely watching for indicators of health in the market. How will the murkiness surrounding BNPL’s future be received by a broader network of public investors? And how will the company stack up against competitors like Affirm and Block (Afterpay)? As we’ve reported, BNPL lacks a central data […]
Hiring, acquisitions, retirement planning, and more depend on a financial system underpinned by dependable government data; with those systems under fire, can the private sector backstop with certainty? The fidelity of U.S. economic data and forecasting is in question after the President fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer for publishing allegedly “rigged” jobs […]
Tariff fears have abated momentarily as the courts have partially rejected Trump’s trade war strategy, earnings reports have been smoking hot, and AI is continuing to drive markets into a tizzy — setting up what is likely to be a warmer-than-expected reception for next week’s five IPOs on deck. Among the outings are two highly […]