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Forget Gemini 3 Vs. GPT-5. The Future Of Finance Is LLM-Agnostic.

The winners in private credit will be the ones who embrace multi-model, vertical AI and the discipline, precision, and scalability it unlocks.

Big Investors Don’t Believe All The AI Hype, But Pay Attention To Infrastructure

Survey finds that robotics and AI offer exciting investment opportunities for institutions investing in AI sector infrastructure through bubbles and beyond.

Proposed Regulatory Shift May Ease Capital Pressure On Community Banks

Regulators propose lowering the community bank leverage ratio to 8% and extending the grace period, a shift that could impact bank capital, lending and compliance.

AI Commerce Startup Onton Raises $7.5M To Take On Retail Giants

AI is reshaping retail as Walmart and Costco expand AI commerce. Onton’s $7.5M seed round positions it to redefine how consumers search, decide, and shop online.

Financial Literacy Is Never Going To Improve. Leave It To The Bots

Instead of focusing solely on teaching financial literacy, one approach is to provide individuals with regulated bots that assist in managing finances.

AI Is Yielding Results For Payments – But Is There More To Come?

AI hype has by no means vanished, but within cross-border payments, the tone has visibly shifted, with the technology beginning to show results. 

Fintech’s Wild Bet: Polymarket And The Prediction-Market Surge

Polymarket’s rise highlights the collision of fintech, crypto, and scandal-plagued sports betting in 2025, raising questions about regulation, integrity and innovation.

If Your Data EQ Is Low, Your AI Strategy Will Blow

Everyone wants to talk about chatbots, machine learning models, generative AI tools, and AI agents. What they don’t want to talk about is their data mess.

Klarna Confirms Recycled Phone Numbers Caused Technical Issue

Klarna says a glitch involving recycled phone numbers, exposed limited personal details for under a few thousand users and has now been resolved.

New OCC Letter Lets Banks Use Crypto To Run Blockchain Systems

The OCC’s new guidance gives banks permission to hold small amounts of crypto for operational use—clearing the way for modernized financial institutions.

Pibit.AI Raises $7 Million To Solve An Insurance Talent Crisis With AI

The insurance industry is running out of people. AI may fill the gap, but only if carriers rethink roles, training, and the future of underwriting.

Fintech Wealthfront To Offer Lower-Rate Home Mortgages

The Silicon Valley robo-advisor, which has 1.3 million customers, is expanding into home lending as it also tries to go public.

Cloudflare Outage And How Wall Street Should Respond

A single vendor outage can disrupt trading, delay transactions, and block customers from accessing critical services even when internal systems are healthy.

Obex Set To Be The Y-Combinator For Stablecoin Startups With $2.5 Billion Mandate

Obex, a new incubator for stablecoins designed to support and finance teams building yield-generating stablecoins on the Sky Protocol, has launched out of San Francisco.

Why Institutional Investors Should Announce Their Proxy Votes In Advance

Several major institutional investors chose to publicly disclose their vote on Elon Musk's pay package in the run-up to the Tesla annual meeting. Why?

Fraud Awareness Week: Telcos And Social Media Companies Need To Act

We may not be able to force the social media companies to pay their share for the fraud that they facilitate but a few simple rules around KYC can help to tilt the scales

Why It May Be Too Late For A Grab-GoTo Merger

Grab and GoTo consider a long-awaited merger with Indonesia’s Danantara fund in play—unpacking the market impact on ride-hailing, food delivery, and Southeast Asia’s fast-growing fintech sector.