Financial Services stories - Page 5

Mentalist Oz Pearlman will headline FICO World 2026 in Orlando, anchoring an AI-focused summit on customer behaviour and financial services.

3DiVi urges banks to track real-world facial ID performance, warning that hope and lab tests are no substitute for live risk metrics.

Cognizant and Uniphore ally to build small-model, sector-specific AI tools for tightly regulated fields, starting with life sciences and banking.

Commvault has launched Geo Shield, a sovereign cloud approach giving regulated customers tighter data residency, control and encryption key choice.

Netpoleon partners with Hack The Box to deliver hands-on cyber skills training and readiness tools to address ANZ’s growing security gap.

Adyen and Boston Consulting Group warn fragmented banking is sapping treasurers’ time and cash visibility, urging consolidation of providers.

IBM launches Sovereign Core, embedding digital sovereignty into cloud and AI stacks to give enterprises and governments direct control.

As AI scales across Australia and New Zealand, leaders are learning that trust, impact and compliance all hinge on disciplined, clean data.

Guidewire has appointed Phil Joel as VP of Solution Advisory for APAC, strengthening support for insurers’ core modernisation and data projects.

AI adoption, machine identities and physical security systems are driving board-level privacy scrutiny for Australian organisations.

Canada’s lending future is going hybrid as Money Mart doubles down on both mobile apps and 420-plus branches to widen access.

Ireland ends its data centre freeze with strict rules tying new projects to onsite power, renewables and a shift beyond Dublin’s grid limits.

Delivery Group secures GBP £45m hybrid refinancing from Investec to fuel eCommerce network expansion and operational investment plans.

Poor-quality customer data has driven more than two-thirds of FCA AML fines since 2020, analysis finds, with penalties topping GBP £430m.

WealthAi secures $1m pre-seed to scale its modular AI wealth platform for UK advisers, targeting system sprawl and manual workflows.

HSBC UK and Sage unveil in-app tax tool for sole traders and landlords as Making Tax Digital for Income Tax rules loom from April.

NTT DATA and AWS sign multi-year deal to speed enterprise cloud modernisation and move agentic AI systems from pilots to production at scale.

ITSEC Asia boss Patrick Dannacher wins APAC CEO of the Year for steering an AI-led cyber platform shift and regional security expansion.

Convera names Google Cloud veteran Meaghan Riley CCO as it posts double-digit growth and nearly USD $190 billion in annual turnover.

NTT DATA strikes multi-year AWS deal to drive agentic AI and cloud modernisation for heavily regulated Asia-Pacific enterprises.