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A recent demonstration from Mastercard suggests that payment systems may be heading toward a future where software agents, not people, complete purchases. During the India AI Impact Summit 2026, Mastercard showed what it described as its first fully authenticated “agentic commerce” transaction. In the demo, as reported by Times of India, an AI agent searched […]
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Artificial intelligence is moving closer to the point where it can act, not advise. A new pilot by DBS Bank shows how that change may soon affect everyday payments, as financial institutions begin testing systems that allow AI agents to complete purchases on behalf of customers. DBS is working with Visa to trial Visa Intelligent
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Goldman Sachs plans to deploy Anthropic’s Claude model in trade accounting and client onboarding, and, according to an article in American Banker, presents this as part of a broader push among large banks to use generative artificial intelligence to improve efficiency. The focus is on operational processes that sit in the back office and have
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NatWest Group has expanded the use of artificial intelligence in several areas of its operations, citing customer service, document management in its wealth management division, and software development. According to a blog post by its chief information officer, Scott Marcar, 2025 was the first year in which these systems were deployed at scale. The aim
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Barclays recorded a 12 % jump in annual profit for 2025, reporting £9.1 billion in earnings before tax, up from £8.1 billion a year earlier. The bank also raised its performance targets out through 2028, aiming for a return on tangible equity (RoTE) of more than 14 %, up from a previous goal of above
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Goldman Sachs is pushing deeper into real use of artificial intelligence inside its operations, moving to systems that can carry out complex tasks on their own. The Wall Street bank is working with AI startup Anthropic to create autonomous AI agents powered by Anthropic’s Claude model that can handle work that used to require large
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Charlie Nunn says banks will be hiring staff with different skill sets as customer experience will ‘radically change’Business live – latest updatesThe boss of Lloyds Banking Group has warned that bankers will need to “reskill themselves” to survive the oncoming AI boom that stands to transform the financial services sector.Charlie Nunn told reporters on Thursday
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For banks trying to put AI into real use, the hardest questions often come before any model is trained. Can the data be used at all? Where is it allowed to be stored? Who is responsible once the system goes live? At Standard Chartered, these privacy-driven questions now shape how AI systems are built, and
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For many large companies, artificial intelligence still lives in side projects. Small teams test tools, run pilots, and present results that struggle to spread beyond a few departments. Citi has taken a different path, where instead of keeping AI limited to specialists, the bank has spent the past two years pushing the technology into daily
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Inside large banks, artificial intelligence has moved into a category once reserved for payment systems, data centres, and core risk controls. At JPMorgan Chase, AI is framed as infrastructure the bank believes it cannot afford to neglect. That position came through clearly in recent comments from CEO Jamie Dimon, who defended the bank’s rising technology
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