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📊AI adoption across FinTech companies

Financial technology and enterprise software firms are increasingly embedding artificial intelligence into customer engagement, compliance, analytics and business operations. Recent developments highlight how organisations are leveraging AI to automate workflows, improve decision-making and enhance user experiences across financial and enterprise environments.

Company | AI Initiative | Purpose
Josh Software, Inc. → AI Voice Banking Service → Automate Banking Customer Interactions
@avalara → Agentic AI Tax Tools → Simplify Tax Compliance
Stitch → Pulse AI Analytics Suite → Enhance Payment Intelligence
@dougscompta → €50m Investment for AI Expansion → Scale Business Automation

The trend reflects a broader shift toward AI-driven operational transformation, where businesses increasingly rely on automation and data-driven insights to support growth and competitiveness.

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@Rawbank_sa has adopted the @SBS_Software Digital Banking Suite to accelerate the deployment of digital banking services and enhance the customer experience across its retail and business banking operations. The implementation will enable Rawbank to simplify and digitise key customer journeys, providing users with improved mobile and web banking applications, enhanced self-service capabilities and faster access to banking products and services.

Read more: https://t.co/zVaqxkJ4bW

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@karta_ai, a multi-intent agentic voice AI platform for inbound customer operations across banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI), announced it raised a $3 million round led by @PeerCapital_VC and Cedar Hill Capital, with Wyser VC, CDM Capital, and Seedstars participating.

Read more: https://t.co/djZrtRAzfB

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@JH_Fintech has expanded its collaboration with @googlecloud to help banks and credit unions explore tokenised deposits through Google Cloud Universal Ledger (GCUL), a distributed ledger platform designed for real-time asset and payment settlement. As part of the expanded relationship, Jack Henry will serve as the core technology provider integrating with GCUL, enabling financial institutions to access tokenised deposit infrastructure and explore new digital payment and settlement capabilities.

Read more: https://t.co/gkGDTbVmVZ

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@10XBanking has partnered with Tungsten Automation to provide the core ledger infrastructure behind Pay+, Tungsten’s new embedded payments solution designed to streamline accounts payable processes. The partnership enables the expansion of 10x Banking’s technology beyond traditional financial institutions into the embedded finance sector. It is also the company’s first deployment within a non-regulated financial institution, with its cloud-native core ledger embedded directly into Tungsten’s payments infrastructure.

Read more: https://t.co/rFqIBfkPCC

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📊 Middle East FinTech Expansion
Financial institutions, investment firms and public sector organisations are strengthening their presence across the Middle East through regulatory approvals, market expansion initiatives and digital service enhancements. Recent developments highlight the region's growing attractiveness as a destination for global finance, investment management and technology-driven financial services.

FinTechs| Approval | Purpose
Capital Group → ADGM Licence → Regional Expansion
@3iq_corp → ADGM Approval → Regional Expansion
DK Bank → ADGM Approval → Banking Expansion
Qatar Ministry of Commerce & Industry → @applepay & @GooglePay Integration → Digital Expansion

These developments underscore how Gulf markets are leveraging progressive regulatory frameworks and digital-first initiatives to attract international firms and strengthen financial sector competitiveness.

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Stitch, the payments infrastructure provider serving some of South Africa’s largest retailers, insurers, telecoms companies, and financial institutions, launched Pulse, a new suite of AI-driven software designed to help businesses gain more value from their payments data.

Read more: https://t.co/SbQDEABmSa

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@revragai, an AI agent platform for the banking, Financial Services, and insurance (BFSI) sector, has raised a $2.5 million seed round led by Accion Ventures, with Cedar Hill Capital, Wyser, and Venture Catalysts participating in the round, which will fund product development, more enterprise deployments, and the company’s move into the U.S.

Read more: https://t.co/UHYjXJ6EtL

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@ncino, the provider of agentic AI banking solutions, has launched the Loan Officer Productivity Suite, a collection of AI-driven tools designed to help mortgage originators work more efficiently and spend less time on manual processes. The new suite has been integrated directly into the nCino Mortgage Solution, giving loan officers access to automated actions, faster answers, and workflow support from a single interface.

Read more: https://t.co/QUmqo753Y2

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UK-based digital business bank OakNorth partnered with Wise to embed the Wise Platform into its payments infrastructure, expanding international payment capabilities for its business customers. The integration gives OakNorth access to Wise Platform’s technology stack and global licensing network, enabling SMEs to send and receive payments across more than 200 countries and territories in over 110 currencies.

Read more: https://t.co/RSEFjrwFXN

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📊 Cross-border payments gain speed and scale

Financial institutions, FinTechs and central banks are strengthening cross-border payment capabilities through new partnerships and payment initiatives. The latest developments focus on stablecoin-enabled transactions, international payment connectivity and faster movement of funds across markets.

FinTech | Initiative/Partner | Focus
Kora → One Rail → Stablecoin Cross-Border Payments
Central Bank of The UAE → Morocco Central Banks → Payments Accord → Payment Connectivity
@Mambu_com → @MastercardNews → Cross-Border Payments
@AlJaziraCare | بنك الجزيرة → Thunes → International Payments

These initiatives highlight the growing demand for seamless, secure and efficient cross-border payment solutions. As businesses and consumers become increasingly global, financial institutions are investing in technologies and partnerships that support faster transactions and broader payment reach.

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@devexperts appointed Rainer Fuchsluger as Global Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately, as the financial technology provider looks to accelerate growth and expand its technology offerings across the investment and trading lifecycle. Fuchsluger will focus on extending the firm’s value chain across the full investment and trade lifecycle, while driving the adoption of advanced technologies including cloud computing and AI.

Read more: https://t.co/0CceLLVI2G

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BDO Unibank has enhanced its payments infrastructure by deploying @FinastraFS's Global PAYplus (GPP) platform, strengthening its ability to manage rising transaction volumes, improve operational efficiency and support future payments innovation. The upgrade is designed to reinforce the bank’s payment-processing capabilities as customer demand for faster, more seamless and interoperable payment services continues to grow.

Read more: https://t.co/eFFtfNT81b

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Ant International has expanded its collaboration with HSBC to strengthen real-time treasury management capabilities in the Middle East by leveraging the bank’s Tokenised Deposit Service (TDS). As part of the initiative, Ant International completed pilot transactions across two payment corridors linking the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong.

Read more: https://t.co/j20upCiMn1

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UK-based Chorley Building Society has completed the migration of its core banking and lending operations in partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), marking the conclusion of a digital transformation programme announced in late 2024. The implementation forms part of Chorley’s broader modernisation strategy as it expands digital capabilities while continuing to support its mortgage and savings customers across England, Scotland and Wales.

Read more: https://t.co/gwCU3pSxFO

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Gulf Capital Investment Company KSCC (InvestGB), the investment arm of Gulf Bank, has gone live with Avaloq’s wealth management platform, marking a major milestone in its digital transformation strategy and Avaloq’s first implementation in Kuwait. The implementation consolidates InvestGB’s wealth management, portfolio management, fund administration, credit and lending operations onto a unified platform.

Read more: https://t.co/rwz6EhtCJv

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Thought Machine, a cloud-native core banking and payments technology provider, launched an AI-powered migration solution in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help banks accelerate core banking modernisation programmes. The joint solution extracted business logic from legacy systems within a bank’s secure cloud environment.

Read more: https://t.co/xUupEYkgFR

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