Financial Services stories
Many large organisations are still struggling to turn AI pilots into live systems, despite heavy spending and rising pressure for returns.
It aims to cut manual work and reduce reconciliation risk for insurers and fund managers handling custodian data in multiple formats.
Legal teams can now feed sensitive deal files from Ansarada into Harvey without losing permissions, audit trails or governance controls.
Channel demand for hybrid and cloud security was in focus as Genetec honoured ANZ partners for work on airports, banks and public sector projects.
The Brisbane startup has secured early validation and a reference customer, boosting its fundraising case before the software has finished beta.
Large enterprises can keep AI and other data-heavy workloads closer to home as the expanded service tackles sovereignty, latency and compliance risks.
Three-quarters of organisations now see third-party software as a top risk, as AI flaws and supply-chain gaps slow security fixes.
Banks must move beyond isolated pilots if they want agentic AI to deliver enterprise-wide gains, Google Cloud says.
The offline card is aimed at keeping staff logged in when identity systems fail, after the Stryker breach exposed how outages can halt operations.
Singapore jobseekers face fiercer competition as LinkedIn’s latest ranking shows financial services still dominate career-growth prospects.
Compliance teams face new blind spots as 61% of UK financial services and insurance staff use generative AI daily, a survey found.
Easier consent and wider bank access could lift Consumer Data Right use to more than 18 million Australians by 2035, the modelling says.
Boards and executives are being urged to treat cyber risk as a shared business issue, with human factors shaping breach readiness.
Fraud checks and collections improved after Absa switched to WhatsApp messages, lifting self-solve cases and payments from distressed borrowers.
Sovereign AI demand is drawing major backing as the planned Cohere-Aleph Alpha tie-up targets governments and regulated industries.
The rollout will bring Anthropic's Claude tools to about 30,000 NEC employees and strengthen AI services for Japanese firms and government bodies.
Customers across New Zealand and Australia can now get broader access to Claude models through Lancom, as AI projects shift from trials to live use.
More banks and credit unions are opting for bundled onboarding and engagement tools as Alkami ties account opening to digital banking and marketing.
The upgrade aims to ease growing bandwidth pressures from cloud, streaming and AI traffic as the exchange enters its fourth decade.
The change is intended to reassure five million members that products and account terms stay unchanged during the summer 2026 transition.