Vivid Money, the European financial platform for SMEs and freelancers, today launches its AI-powered Digital Employees to empower European SMEs. With the new AI assistants, companies can increase their productivity by 1.3x1, save up to 13 hours of productive time per week2, and reduce monthly operating costs by up to €4,0003.

Alkami Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKT) (“Alkami”), a digital sales and service platform provider for financial institutions in the U.S., today announced the upcoming webinar, Inside the Layers: Strategies for Smarter Security & Fraud Prevention, that will be a panel discussion designed to help financial institutions defend against evolving fraud threats through layered security.

As U.S. lawmakers weigh new legislation being described as a “Patriot Act for Digital Assets”, Web3 institutions are facing mounting pressure to reconcile privacy with compliance.

Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN), the most comprehensive technology platform for investment management, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management today announced an integration that transforms how hedge funds manage cash. The solution links Enfusion by CWAN directly with the Morgan Money® trading platform, J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s short-term investment management solution, giving clients a single, automated workflow for investing and monitoring idle cash.

Samba Bank, a subsidiary of Saudi National Bank, rolls out modern fraud detection system with advanced AI/ML-powered BPC’s SmartVista Fraud Management, completing the second phase of its end-to-end digital-banking transformation and meeting every provision of the State Bank of Pakistan’s BPRD Circular No. 04 of 2023.

International SME financier, Bibby Financial Services (BFS), has launched a new global website as part of its growth strategy, marking a significant milestone in its digital transformation.

The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) and Tokenovate have today announced the establishment of a new taskforce within the Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) to accelerate operationalization of the Common Domain Model (CDM).

Three in five (59%) people are concerned about rumoured changes to pension tax-free cash rules in the Autumn budget, research by Nucleus has found.

Ujjivan Small Finance Bank's Hello Ujjivan app, a dedicated mobile banking platform exclusively for the bank's microbanking customers, has facilitated over ₹690 crore in financial transactions since its launch. Purpose-built for Microfinance customers availing group and individual loan customers, most of whom are first-time digital banking users, the app has become a critical bridge between financial exclusion and economic empowerment.

For years, the financial services industry has fallen back on one lazy explanation for the gender investment gap: that women ‘lack confidence’. New research from eToro’s Loud Investing campaign shows that this narrative doesn’t just miss the point, it actively discourages women from investing.

Emirates Investment Bank, a Dubai-based private bank, has partnered with Avaloq to digitally transform its private banking, wealth and investment management operations. As part of the new collaboration, Emirates Investment Bank will adopt Avaloq’s platform to modernize its core wealth systems, enhance front-office capabilities, and upgrade its digital banking channels across web and mobile. This will help the bank to scale its services and deliver a highly personalized, data-driven wealth management experience.

Atrium announces the launch of its enterprise SaaS platform that enables bank and real estate investors and analysts to drill from a bank’s balance sheet to every building it finances—in one click. Atrium's monitoring solution powers proactive and ongoing credit risk analysis so investors will not be stuck evaluating risk in hindsight. The company has raised $4 million in financing from Castle Island Ventures and EJF Ventures to accelerate product development and support nationwide data coverage.

Piere, an AI-first financial automation platform, today announced it has raised $2.1M in pre-seed funding. The round was led by early-stage fintech fund Grand Ventures, with participation from Selah Ventures, Trustage Ventures, Samvid Ventures, and Fabric VC. These investors have backed fintech leaders including Affirm, MoneyLion, Alloy, Happy Money, and Unit. Prominent angel investors in the pre-seed include Aditya Khurjekar (co-founder of Money 20/20), Nick Calamari (C-suite at Better.com), and Joe Lieberman (Managing Partner at K20 Fund).

AML Ranger, one of the world’s first AI-powered assistant tools for anti-money laundering compliance, has officially launched and is currently available to use for free. To improve AML processes, it provides three assistants: PEP, sanctions, and adverse media that perform real-time checks.

A new case study from Gradient Labs – the only customer service AI agent designed specifically for regulated industries – shows how Sling Money, a fast-growing global payments app, improved its support experience by deploying Gradient Labs’ AI agent. The solution now autonomously resolves 78% of customer inquiries on its own – up from 50% on day one – cutting response times and reducing the load on Sling’s support team.