Watch more: What’s Next in Payments With Entersekt’s Richard Bailey Banks have spent much of the past two years asking whether artificial intelligence should be viewed as an enhancement or a competitive differentiator. Richard Bailey believes the discussion should begin somewhere else entirely. During a...
Anthropic is preparing to ask some Claude users to verify their identity, a move that could require government-issued IDs and, in some cases, selfie checks, according to Monday (June 22) reporting from TechCrunch. The policy would apply to certain consumer use cases and is aimed...
Rep. Young Kim has introduced a bill that would allow financial institutions to place extended holds on suspicious checks and wire transfers while investigating potential fraud. The “Strengthening Transaction Oversight and Preventing Payments Fraud Act of 2026“ (“STOP Payments Fraud Act of 2026”) aims to change the...
Google has introduced its plans to fend off threats from increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The company’s DeepMind division on Thursday (June 18) published its “AI Control Roadmap,” a plan inspired by the cybersecurity sector on how to contain AI agents when they go rouge. “We should not assume...
Flagright raised $12.5 million in a Series A funding round to increase the capabilities and adoption of its artificial intelligence operating system for financial crime compliance. The company will use the new funding to expand explainable AI uses cases across investigations, alert intelligence, rule optimization,...
Fraud prevention in B2B payments has long operated on a simple premise: if something went wrong, there would be time to fix it. That is changing. Real-time payments, faster settlement and digital commerce are shrinking decision windows. Finance teams are shifting from fraud recovery to...
Cybersecurity company Ent has emerged from stealth with $100 million in seed funding. In announcing the financing Tuesday (June 16), Ent said its approach to cybersecurity is based on the belief that artificial intelligence (AI) “compresses the time between compromise and impact,” which means “prevention must once again become...
SoftBank Group has launched an artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity solution that it will offer to companies in Japan that support the country’s critical infrastructure. The new Patching as a Service solution includes cybersecurity vulnerability assessments, remediation planning and implementation support, and it will be offered in...
CrowdStrike has added a new security control plane for artificial intelligence agents that provides continuous, risk-aware enforcement. The new Continuous Identity for AI agents, which joins the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform, authorizes every agent action based on who owns it, who is calling it, and real-time...