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Do Banks Need AI Employees More Than They Do Core Upgrades?

October 12, 2026
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Coinbase Looks to Cash in as Banks Embrace Crypto
Cryptocurrency // October 08, 2026

Coinbase is reportedly expanding its services for traditional financial firms amid growing institutional cryptocurrency adoption. Banks are increasingly launching their own digital asset services, and Coinbase is serving as their infrastructure provider while also bolstering its prime offerings, Liz Martin, head of Coinbase Institutional, said...

BNY and Kraken Parent Payward Eye Global Financial Infrastructure Partnership
Partnerships // October 02, 2026

BNY and Kraken parent company Payward are discussing a partnership that would span digital assets and financial market infrastructure, CoinDesk reported Friday (Oct. 2), citing unnamed sources. The agreement could include crypto products, custody, wealth management, trading, payments and infrastructure offerings that are provided by Payward’s B2B platform for banks, exchanges and asset...

OpenAI Focuses On Investment Banking Ahead of Wider Financial Services Rollout
Artificial Intelligence // September 10, 2026

OpenAI has introduced a tailored ChatGPT Work experience designed for financial institutions, the company said in a Thursday (Sept. 10) press release. ChatGPT for Financial Services is initially focused on investment banking and equity research, and it is designed to help bankers develop research, financial...

Ant International Secures Payment Institution License to Expand Capabilities in Brazil
Legal & Regulation // September 04, 2026

Ant International, a global provider of digital payment, digitization and financial artificial intelligence (FinAI) solutions, has received a Payment Institution (PI) license from the Central Bank of Brazil, the company said in a Thursday (Sept. 3) press release. The PI license will strengthen Ant International’s local and cross-border payment capabilities...

Interviews & Exclusives
Do Banks Need AI Employees More Than They Do Core Upgrades?

October 12, 2026
Watch more: Monday Conversation With Kastle’s Rishi Choudhary Rishi Choudhary, Co-Founder and CEO of Kastle, believes that banks have been approaching AI modernization from the wrong end of the technology stack: the legacy end. For years, he said, the industry’s transformation agenda has been dominated by the dilemma of just how banks can introduce new capabilities […]

SoFi Tech Solutions’ New President Is Building the AWS of Finance

August 31, 2026
Watch more: Monday Conversation With SoFi’s Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore Former Visa executive Kathleen Pierce-Gilmore is three months into her new role as president of SoFi Technology Solutions. The premise guiding her...

Veriff and Uphold on Verifying Customers for the Life of the Account

August 12, 2026
Watch more: Verified Once, Trade Everywhere: Turning KYC Into a Growth Engine Identity verification has a peculiar economics problem: The controls designed to keep the wrong customer out can also...

What the OCC’s Wise and Bunq Denials Mean for FinTech Bank Charters

August 10, 2026
A national bank charter promises FinTechs a more direct route into U.S. financial services. But the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is making clear that getting one...

Quick Reads
Coinbase Looks to Cash in as Banks Embrace Crypto

October 08, 2026
Coinbase is reportedly expanding its services for traditional financial firms amid growing institutional cryptocurrency adoption. Banks are increasingly launching their own digital asset services, and Coinbase is serving as their infrastructure provider while also bolstering its prime offerings, Liz Martin, head of Coinbase Institutional, said in an interview with Bloomberg News Thursday (Oct. 8). “We’ve […]

BNY and Kraken Parent Payward Eye Global Financial Infrastructure Partnership

October 02, 2026
BNY and Kraken parent company Payward are discussing a partnership that would span digital assets and financial market infrastructure, CoinDesk reported Friday (Oct. 2), citing unnamed sources. The agreement could include crypto products, custody, wealth management,...

OpenAI Focuses On Investment Banking Ahead of Wider Financial Services Rollout

September 10, 2026
OpenAI has introduced a tailored ChatGPT Work experience designed for financial institutions, the company said in a Thursday (Sept. 10) press release. ChatGPT for Financial Services is initially focused on...

Ant International Secures Payment Institution License to Expand Capabilities in Brazil

September 04, 2026
Ant International, a global provider of digital payment, digitization and financial artificial intelligence (FinAI) solutions, has received a Payment Institution (PI) license from the Central Bank of Brazil, the company said in a...