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Deploying agentic finance AI for immediate business ROI

Agentic finance AI improves business efficiency and ROI only when deployed with strict governance and clear return on investment targets. A recent FT Longitude survey of 200 finance leaders across the US, UK, France, and Germany showed 61 percent have deployed AI agents merely as experiments. Meanwhile, one in four executives admit they do not […]

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Exploring AI in the APAC retail sector

AI in the APAC retail sector is transitioning from analytics and pilots into workflows and daily operations. Dense urban stores, high labour churn, and competitive quick-commerce ecosystems are driving the uptake. A Q4 2025 survey by GlobalData found that 45 percent of consumers in Asia and Australasia are very or quite likely to purchase a

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How AI upgrades enterprise treasury management

The adoption of AI for enterprise treasury management enables businesses to abandon manual spreadsheets for automated data pipelines. Corporate finance departments face pressure from market volatility, regulatory demands, and digital finance requirements. Ashish Kumar, head of Infosys Oracle Sales for North America, and CM Grover, CEO of IBS FinTech, recently discussed the realities of corporate

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How financial institutions are embedding AI decision-making

For leaders in the financial sector, the experimental phase of generative AI has concluded and the focus for 2026 is operational integration. While early adoption centred on content generation and efficiency in isolated workflows, the current requirement is to industrialise these capabilities. The objective is to create systems where AI agents do not merely assist

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Alibaba Qwen is challenging proprietary AI model economics

The release of Alibaba’s latest Qwen model challenges proprietary AI model economics with comparable performance on commodity hardware. While US-based labs have historically held the performance advantage, open-source alternatives like the Qwen 3.5 series are closing the gap with frontier models. This offers enterprises a potential reduction in inference costs and increased flexibility in deployment

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Agentic AI drives finance ROI in accounts payable automation

Finance leaders are driving ROI using agentic AI for accounts payable automation, turning manual tasks into autonomous workflows. While general AI projects saw return on investment rise to 67 percent last year, autonomous agents delivered an average ROI of 80 percent by handling complex processes without human intervention. This performance gap demands a change in

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Legal Aspects of AI in Marketing

Creating Ad copies and blog content, enabling data collection, optimizing campaigns, processing customer data to build detailed personas, and even automating your entire marketing workflow from lead nurturing to conversion tracking. AI is growing so fast that it can heavy-lift the majority of your marketing tasks. However, non-compliant use of AI for marketing, like pasting

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What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier

The ability to remember you and your preferences is rapidly becoming a big selling point for AI chatbots and agents.  Earlier this month, Google announced Personal Intelligence, a new way for people to interact with the company’s Gemini chatbot that draws on their Gmail, photos, search, and YouTube histories to make Gemini “more personal, proactive,

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Controlling AI agent sprawl: The CIO’s guide to governance

Corporate networks are filling up with AI agents, creating a governance blind spot for leaders managing multi-cloud infrastructures. As distinct business units race to adopt generative technologies, CIOs especially find their ecosystems populated by fragmented and unmonitored assets. This mirrors the shadow IT challenges of the cloud era, but involves autonomous actors capable of executing

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Balancing AI cost efficiency with data sovereignty

AI cost efficiency and data sovereignty are at odds, forcing a rethink of enterprise risk frameworks for global organisations. For over a year, the generative AI narrative focused on a race for capability, often measuring success by parameter counts and flawed benchmark scores. Boardroom conversations, however, are undergoing a necessary correction. While the allure of

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