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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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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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How e& is using HR to bring AI into enterprise operations

For many enterprises, the first real test of AI is not customer-facing products or flashy automation demos. It is the quiet machinery that runs the organisation itself. Human resources, with its mix of routine workflows, compliance needs, and large volumes of structured data, is emerging as one of the earliest areas where companies are pushing

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Barclays bets on AI to cut costs and boost returns

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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How insurance leaders use agentic AI to cut operational costs

Agentic AI offers insurance leaders a path to scalable efficiency as the sector confronts a tough digital transformation. Insurers hold deep data reserves and employ a workforce skilled in analytic decision-making. Despite these advantages, the industry has largely failed to advance beyond pilot programmes. Research suggests only seven percent of insurers have scaled these initiatives

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Goldman Sachs tests autonomous AI agents for process-heavy work

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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AI Expo 2026 Day 2: Moving experimental pilots to AI production

The second day of the co-located AI & Big Data Expo and Digital Transformation Week in London showed a market in a clear transition. Early excitement over generative models is fading. Enterprise leaders now face the friction of fitting these tools into current stacks. Day two sessions focused less on large language models and more

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Microsoft unveils method to detect sleeper agent backdoors

Researchers from Microsoft have unveiled a scanning method to identify poisoned models without knowing the trigger or intended outcome. Organisations integrating open-weight large language models (LLMs) face a specific supply chain vulnerability where distinct memory leaks and internal attention patterns expose hidden threats known as “sleeper agents”. These poisoned models contain backdoors that lie dormant

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AI use surges at Travelers as call centre roles reduce

Mid-January saw insurance company, Travelers, announce a new deal that empowers 10,000 engineers and data scientists with AI assistants. However, less than two weeks on, Travelers’ leadership explained that the company’s true competitive advantage lies in expertise, not AIs alone, believing this is what will drive longer-term profit growth. According to Travelers’ chief executive officer

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