Talkdesk has launched proactive AI agents designed specifically for retail and financial services, moving the company from a platform that handles inbound customer queries to one that initiates outbound engagement autonomously. The new agents sit withi…
Capchase, a New York-based vendor financing platform for enterprise technology companies, has raised more than $200 million in new funding to scale its embedded lending infrastructure globally. The round, a mix of debt warehouse facilities and equity…
Amazon Web Services has launched a product that lets retailers build their own AI-powered shopping assistants using the same technology that powers Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping. The AWS Agentic Shopping Assistant packages architecture guidance, starter …
Robinhood has launched a platform that lets users connect AI agents to their brokerage accounts to execute stock trades autonomously. The company is also introducing a virtual credit card designed specifically for AI agents, making it the first major…
Moment, the fintech company founded by a cohort of former Citadel Securities quantitative traders and researchers, has raised $78 million. The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Avra. The …
The Goldman-backed UK challenger has booked a second consecutive annual decline as it takes additional expected-credit-loss provisions, on top of the FY25 fallout from the BBLS Covid-loan compliance issue and the FCA’s £29m anti-money-laundering fine. …
Primer, a London-based payment startup, has announced a €86.2 million Series C funding round to expand its AI payments and finance platform. The capital will also support its market development in the US, where the company plans to grow revenue to more…
The Dubai-founded global employment and payroll platform reached profitability in early 2025 before taking the round. EBRD Venture Capital led; 500 Global is the new strategic name alongside.\ RemotePass, the global employment, payroll, and spend platf…
Google has unveiled Universal Cart, an AI-powered shopping hub announced at I/O 2026 that lets users add products from across its ecosystem, Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail, into a single persistent cart. The feature, rolling out in the US today, re…
Most AI products in financial services are, if you strip away the marketing, large language models bolted onto data feeds. They retrieve information. They do not understand it. And when the stakes involve real money, that distinction matters enormously…