Ashok Vaswani, Barclays: Human Element

Volante Technologies, the global leader in Payments as a Service (PaaS), today announced that its Payments Platform and PaaS operations are now powered by its “Vol360i” Agentic AI. The core upgrade unlocks autonomous and semi-autonomous collaboration to reduce manual intervention, significantly increasing straight-through processing (STP) rates to over 95%, accelerating exception resolution, and proactively managing SLA performance.

Titan, the first of its kind, banking‑native AI platform purpose‑built for financial services, today announced it has raised $3 million in new funding, led by Entropy Ventures. The raise accelerates its mission to deliver auditable, explainable AI infrastructure for the highly-regulated banking landscape, allowing institutions to innovate securely and at speed.

Feedzai, the global leader in AI-native financial crime prevention, today announced the availability of Feedzai IQ Score, an AI-native, network-derived fraud risk scoring solution for banks of all sizes.

Taskize, the leading investment operations collaboration platform and Euroclear-owned fintech, has partnered with Global Relay – an innovative provider of integrated digital communications and mobile compliance solutions for highly regulated industries – to bring structured, secure, and fully auditable API-based archiving capabilities to Taskize users.

PAIR Finance, Europe’s leading AI-based digital debt collector, has announced the appointment of Thomas Duvacher as Managing Director of PAIR Finance France. This strategic appointment marks a new phase in the group’s accelerated expansion within the French market.

SDB Wallet announces the launch of its digital wallet platform — multi-currency accounts, Mastercard cards, international transfers and digital-asset deposits in one secure app.