From agentic Fiverrs to enterprise-grade verticals, builders are racing to define how AI agents are created, deployed, discovered, and monetized. Online shopping. Stock trading. Vacation planning. If you listen to the most bullish projections about the scope and speed of AI-agent adoption in the coming years, use cases in commerce, public markets, and flight bookings […]
In a country that built its tech edge on global talent, a six-figure entry fee now stands at the border. The U.S. just rolled out a $100,000 surcharge on new H?1B visa petitions. While the intent is to curb abuse of the system — and perhaps re-onshore talent in what’s proved to be an increasingly […]
Despite a turbulent 2025, public markets are heating up again. Luke Sikora of J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners explains why the optimism may last, how startups are using M&A for AI advantage, and why investor discipline could outlive the rate-hike era. Policy-induced market jolts since the return of Donald Trump to the White House have […]
“It’s a time of high demand for human augmentation in the accounting sector… around 75% of the US accounting workforce is at retirement age.” Vibe coding has become the talk of the town, with autonomous agents helping developers compress months of work into hours. But in finance and accounting — domains where accuracy is non-negotiable […]
Albania’s government just enacted the world’s first AI minister. Diella, a platform developed in collaboration with Microsoft and named after the Albanian word for “sun,” has been instituted within Prime Minister Edi Rama’s Cabinet to fight fraud, with the goal of ensuring public tenders are “100% free of corruption.” While there is still more to […]
We spoke with the seasoned fintech investor about his latest bet on Tabs, which just announced its $55M Series B aimed at building AI Agents for billing & collections. Over the past year, we’ve been covering how AI tools are entering the workforce in fits and starts. On one end are companies like Mira Murati’s […]
At Finovate 2025, fraud-focused fintechs demo the power of AI agents, behavioral science, and graph technology to fight financial fraud A new cohort of fintech firms is determined to disrupt and eradicate financial fraud, in all its permutations. That was the message at Finovate 2025 in New York, an annual conference where innovators in a […]
Echoing across the fintech world, news broke today that Plaid will pay JPMorgan Chase for their customers’ data. “The data access agreement will continue the long relationship between the two companies, who have helped lead their industries in connecting consumers to their banking data. The agreement, which includes a pricing structure, outlines a series of […]
Token for your thoughts? A flurry of activity indicates the technology may have hit an inflection point in the financial industry, as companies look to buffer against digital fraudsters and ensure transactions settle faster in an environment where threats to money transfers appear to be exponentially increasing due to the sophistication of AI technology. Tokenizing […]
“We all play duplicative roles, which is why a network model is what we built as the solution for this open-access problem. So it’s much more complex than, the fintechs are on one side and the banks are another.” Amidst the litigious frenzy that threw the future of open banking in the air, SOLO, a […]