Topic: financial services
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Pintarnya Secures $16.7M to Boost Indonesian Jobs and Financial Access
Pintarnya, an Indonesian platform for job seekers and financial solutions, raised $16.7 million in Series A funding led by Square Peg with support from existing investors. The platform uses AI-powered job matching and offers secured loans through asset-backed lenders, targeting Indonesia's large ...
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Snowflake Launches AI Suite and MCP for Finance
Snowflake has launched two key innovations for the financial sector: a specialized AI suite (Cortex AI for Financial Services) and support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, enabling secure development and deployment of AI agents while protecting sensitive data. The MCP Server allows AI...
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CommBank Named a World Leader in AI Banking
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia ranks among the world's top four banks for AI maturity and leads the Asia-Pacific region, according to the 2025 Evident AI Index, which evaluates banks on Talent, Innovation, Leadership, and Transparency. Its rise in the rankings reflects significant investments...
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SitusAMC Data Breach Exposes Client Information
SitusAMC experienced a significant data breach in mid-November 2025, exposing sensitive corporate and client data, including legal agreements and customer information, though no ransomware was used and operations continue uninterrupted. The company, which serves major financial institutions like ...
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Dataiku Launches AI Factory Accelerator for Faster Enterprise AI with NVIDIA
Dataiku's AI Factory Accelerator, developed with NVIDIA, helps businesses quickly scale AI projects from testing to full enterprise deployment by combining governance with accelerated computing infrastructure. The platform addresses common scaling challenges like complexity and compliance, using ...
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Industries Adapting to Answer-Driven Search
The shift from traditional search results to AI-generated direct answers is forcing brands to adopt Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), focusing on content structure, clarity, and credibility to ensure visibility. Different industries face unique AEO challenges: retail must optimize structured data...
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Is Your Website Ready for AI Agents? Here's What to Fix
AI agents are transforming customer engagement by meeting users wherever they are, already driving one-third of brand-related search traffic and shaping how information is presented. Businesses face challenges with general AI models that struggle with complex workflows and data, making vertical a...
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UK Invests $130M in AI Tech to Boost Sector Growth
The UK government is investing £100 million to purchase AI chips from domestic companies, providing guaranteed payments to support startups in key industries like life sciences and financial services. Modeled after the COVID-19 vaccine strategy, this "first customer" program commits to buying AI ...
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Dubai Holding, Palantir Launch Aither to Drive AI Transformation
Dubai Holding and Palantir Technologies have launched Aither, a joint venture to accelerate AI adoption in the UAE by combining Palantir's AI platforms with Dubai Holding's regional expertise. Aither builds on an 18-month collaboration that has already improved efficiency and decision-making in s...
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SHARON AI and VAST Data Launch InsightEngine in Australia
SHARON AI and VAST Data have partnered to deliver scalable, secure AI inference capabilities for enterprises and governments, enabling the transition from experimental AI to full-scale production with sovereign, high-performance infrastructure. The collaboration introduces the VAST InsightEngine,...
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PEXA Appoints New Executives to Drive Innovation and Growth
PEXA Group has made strategic executive appointments to strengthen its leadership team, aiming to accelerate innovation and support expansion into new markets while enhancing its core digital property settlement platform. Key external hires include Peter Bonney as Chief Product and Technology Off...
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Better Tomorrow Ventures Raises $140M, Betting Big on Fintech
Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $140 million for its third fund to invest in early-stage financial technology companies, believing the massive financial services sector is still undergoing significant digital transformation. The firm is focusing on disrupting the accounting industry due to a ...
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Qatar Breaks Into Top 20 in Global Digital Competitiveness Ranking
Qatar has risen to the top 20 in the IMD World Digital Competitiveness Ranking for 2025, reflecting progress toward a knowledge-based economy under Qatar National Vision 2030 and its national development strategies. The country excelled in key indicators, ranking first globally in Funding for Tec...
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UiPath Adds Microsoft Azure AI to Its Agentic Platform
UiPath has integrated Microsoft Azure AI Foundry into its platform to enable businesses to orchestrate workflows with enterprise-level governance, enhancing automation efficiency and reliability. The integration uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to scale workflows via UiPath Maestro, providin...
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Box Shield Pro: Secure AI Workflows & Protect Sensitive Data
Box has launched Box Shield Pro, an AI-enhanced security suite that builds on its existing platform to better protect enterprise data and improve threat response against risks like ransomware and accidental exposure. The new solution includes AI-driven agents for automated content classification,...
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Is Google AI Stealing Your PPC Revenue? What You Must Know
Google's AI Overviews are pushing paid ads down the page, reducing click-through rates and potential revenue for advertisers. Marketers can adapt by focusing on queries with less AI interference, adjusting strategies based on user intent, and targeting sectors like retail and travel where AI pres...
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Amplify Your ABM Strategy with CTV Advertising
Integrating Connected TV (CTV) advertising with Account-Based Marketing (ABM) allows B2B marketers to precisely target high-value accounts and engage decision-makers in a high-impact, premium environment. Successful CTV for ABM requires identifying clear use cases across diverse sectors, uploadin...
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Dubai Chamber, 28DIGITAL Partner to Boost Tech Startup Growth
The Dubai Chamber of Digital Economy and 28DIGITAL have formed a strategic partnership to support tech startups by enhancing market discovery, investment facilitation, and international expansion between Dubai and Europe. Signed at the Expand North Star 2025 event, this alliance aims to strengthe...
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InDrive's Ambitious Plan to Succeed as a Global Super App
InDrive is expanding from ride-hailing into a super-app offering services like grocery delivery and financial products, targeting emerging economies. The company has seen significant global growth with over 360 million downloads and plans to adapt its strategy locally, starting with Kazakhstan. I...
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Prosper Data Breach Exposes 17.6 Million Accounts
Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending platform, experienced a data breach compromising the personal details of approximately 17.6 million individuals, including current customers and loan applicants. Sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, names, addresses, and financial data was exfiltr...
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Top Industries Using AI Agents to Transform Customer Experience
Businesses are rapidly adopting AI agents, with a 119% surge in the first half of 2025, to transform customer interactions, streamline operations, and enhance productivity. AI agents operate autonomously, learn continuously, and integrate with enterprise systems to handle complex tasks, leading t...
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Flipkart's Super.money Expands Reach with Juspay Partnership
Super.money is expanding its market presence through a partnership with Juspay, aiming to reach $100 million in annual revenue by 2026 by enhancing its direct-to-consumer checkout services. The company has rapidly grown to become one of India's top five UPI apps by transaction volume and is a lea...
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Boost AI Truthfulness with Logic: AWS Expert Insights
Automated reasoning is emerging as a key AI tool, combining mathematical logic with AI to ensure reliability and verify truth in critical applications like security and finance. Unlike generative AI, automated reasoning provides definitive answers through logical proofs, enabling rapid validation...
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