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Highlighting how this integration addresses the strict compliance mandates required to bring generative intelligence to Wall Street, Gabe Rissman, Co-Founder and CEO of Rogo, stated: “Financial institutions sit on vast mountains of proprietary data, but security concerns have historically limited their ability to leverage generative AI. By deepening our integration with Snowflake, we are unlocking the full potential of this data. Firms can now deploy Rogo’s finance-specific AI agents directly where their data lives, accelerating complex workflows like investment screening and market research while maintaining the gold standard of data privacy.” As financial enterprises continue to embrace automated digital transformation, this unified architecture provides the scale, compliance, and domain precision necessary to maximize cross-departmental productivity and optimize investment decision intelligence.

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“The vault has become the control point in modern payments,” said Justin Benson, CEO of Spreedly. “More of what determines payment performance now lives in the credential itself, and providers are finally opening up to let merchants own it. Merchants want that control the ability to run the providers they have today and change course tomorrow. An independent vault lets them start now and decide the rest as they grow. They shouldn’t have to commit to everything on day one.”

The launch reflects a structural shift in how payments are built and where their value sits:

• Value has moved into the vault. The vault is no longer passive storage. Network tokenization, Account Updater, and stored-credential optimization increasingly determine authorization rates and payment performance — making the credential, and who controls it, a source of competitive advantage.
• Payment providers are opening up. Providers that once held credentials captive are increasingly supporting merchant-controlled vaults and credential portability, removing a long-standing barrier to adding or switching providers.
• Merchants want to own orchestration. A growing number of merchants want to own the routing and decisioning layer that sits above their providers, rather than delegating that control to any single PSP.
• The next wave is agent-driven. As AI agents begin initiating purchases, merchants that already control portable payment credentials will be best positioned to support them.
• The path forward should stay open. With an independent vault, merchants can preserve that optionality without committing to it prematurely.

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While Spreedly has long offered payment vault capabilities as part of its orchestration platform, merchants can now begin with secure, portable credentials today and expand into additional capabilities over time on the same platform with no re-vaulting required.

Spreedly’s standalone vault includes:

• PCI DSS Level 1 tokenization that keeps raw payment data out of merchant systems
• Portable payment credentials that work across more than 100 payment providers with no processor lock-in
• Built-in network tokenization and Account Updater services that help keep payment credentials current and improve authorization rates
• A direct path to additional payment capabilities on the Spreedly platform without migrating payment credentials

A merchant can adopt the vault while continuing to run a single provider per region, preserving control and optionality. As needs grow, they can build their own orchestration on top of portable credentials, or adopt Spreedly’s, without rebuilding their payments stack.

“A vault shouldn’t lock you into anyone’s roadmap, including ours,” said Mike Rivers, CTO of Spreedly. “When credentials stay portable, a merchant can run a single provider per region today and add routing, orchestration, or new payment methods whenever they’re ready. Portability is what keeps the future open.”

Stored credential transactions now account for 40% of transaction volume across Spreedly’s platform, up from 34% in 2022, reflecting growing demand for payment strategies built around portable credentials rather than a single payment processor.

Source: PRNewswire

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Conta Azul will use Oscilar’s fraud prevention, onboarding and case management capabilities to strengthen its risk operations as it expands from financial management into payments and continues scaling services for more than 100,000 businesses across Brazil. The unified system will give Conta Azul’s anti-fraud and engineering teams a single real-time view of the customer journey, from onboarding through ongoing transaction monitoring.

Oscilar’s flexibility was a key factor in the decision. The platform adapts to Conta Azul’s data in its existing structure and integrates the third-party services the team already uses, giving the fraud team the speed and control to respond as threats change.

Conta Azul also plans to build on Oscilar’s agentic AI capabilities. A natural-language copilot helps users create and adjust rules, while an AI agent reviews historical rule performance and recommends improvements. AI-generated case summaries give analysts a faster read on investigations, helping the team move more quickly across both strategy and day-to-day operations.

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“Brazil is an incredibly demanding fraud market and as Conta Azul grows from financial management into payments, the stakes for our customers only get higher,” said Bruno Coconici Rodrigues, Head of Fraud at Conta Azul. “We wanted a platform our team could run ourselves, building and adjusting our own rules and testing new ideas without waiting on engineering. Oscilar gives us that autonomy plus the freedom to connect our own data and the tools we already use.”

“Conta Azul has spent more than a decade helping Brazilian businesses manage their finances, and as it moves deeper into payments, its fraud team has to move as fast as threats do,” said Neha Narkhede, co-founder and CEO of Oscilar. “Our platform puts that control in their hands. They build and adjust rules in plain language, and AI agents help sharpen detection as the patterns shift. We are investing heavily in Brazil and Latin America, and Conta Azul is exactly the kind of team we want to grow with.”

Key benefits of the partnership include:

• Unified fraud and onboarding operations: Onboarding (KYC and KYB), transaction fraud monitoring and case management on a single platform, in place of fragmented tooling.
• Controls the fraud team owns: The team builds and adjusts rules directly and tests new strategies without waiting on engineering.
• A platform shaped around Conta Azul’s data: A schema-agnostic design lets the team send its own data in its own structure, with third-party services connected by Oscilar.
• Faster, safer iteration: Backtesting, shadow mode, and controlled rollout let the team try changes before they go fully live.
• AI-assisted rule building and case review: A natural-language copilot, an agent that recommends and refines them, and AI summaries that speed up investigations.
• Room to scale: Capacity to grow as Conta Azul expands into payments and scales within Visma.
• A path to agentic AI: Access to Oscilar‘s broader agentic capabilities as use cases expand.

The partnership adds to Oscilar’s growing footprint across Latin America, where financial institutions are adopting unified, agentic risk infrastructure to keep pace with changing fraud and regulatory demands.

Source: BusinessWire

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In 2026, artificial intelligence is widening the gap between what compliance teams need to review and what legacy compliance solutions are capable of reviewing. With two-thirds of investment advisers currently using AI, the volume of communications, marketing content, and trades are growing rapidly. At the same time, regulators know that AI has made comprehensive review technologically possible. Firms are now expected to review more, prove more, and respond faster with the same headcount. Agentic compliance is the CCO’s solution.

“If AI is generating the communications, the marketing, and the trades, only AI can review them at the same scale,” said Thomas Stewart, Co-founder and CEO of Hadrius. “Our vision is a world where AI scales compliance team bandwidth by reviewing everything at the speed it was created, applying the right context globally, and maintaining audit-ready documentation.”

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By consolidating the compliance lifecycle into one AI-native system of record, Hadrius today reduces false positives by 95%, manual compliance work by 70%, and saves 20+ hours per week. By the end of 2026, Hadrius plans to extend AI capabilities across the full compliance spectrum, deploying agentic oversight to:

• Marketing: AI-first review & approval of marketing materials.
• Communications: Multi-channel capture and WORM-compliant archiving, with AI surveillance to flag violations.
• People: Automated personal trading monitoring, attestations, and conflict-of-interest disclosures.
• Trades: Monitoring for trading abuse and policy breaches, with support for pre-clearance workflows.
• Branches: Inspection scheduling, deficiency tracking, and supervisor-rep hierarchy mapping across offices.
• Firm audit readiness: One system of record for policies, risk assessments, testing calendars, and compliance documentation.

“Compliance is one of the largest and least automated labor markets in financial services. It represents a $9.4 billion technology opportunity sitting next to tens of billions in labor spend,” said Brittany Walker, General Partner at CRV. “Before AI, it was fragmented across manual internal teams, point solutions, and expensive consultancies. Hadrius is consolidating that spend onto a single platform, and firms are building their entire compliance programs around it.”

“For us, Hadrius is a no-brainer,” said Michael Schmidtke, Chief Compliance Officer of Csenge Advisory Group. “They’re building a plug-and-play solution around today’s data feeds and AI that the legacy software isn’t keeping up with. Hadrius lets us spend more on what we want and work smarter, better, and cheaper on compliance.”

Hadrius will use the funding to further build out its product roadmap in order to meet demand for category-defining compliance infrastructure. The team recently recruited the former Head of Product at ACA Group along with senior go-to-market leaders from StarCompliance, Orion, and Smarsh, and plans to bring on several other key hires within the next year.

Source: PRNewswire

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Genetic testing represents one of the fastest-growing and most clinically nuanced areas of healthcare, with more than 150,000 tests on the market today and more than 10 new ones introduced daily. The pace of innovation, combined with evolving evidence, coding structures, payer policies, and coverage requirements, makes the category particularly difficult to manage at scale.

The capability builds on Machinify’s acquisition of InformedDNA’s genetic testing payment integrity business, encoding decades of specialized genetic testing review expertise directly into the Machinify platform. By combining AI with deep clinical expertise, Machinify enables health plans to make more informed decisions throughout the payment lifecycle, whether preventing incorrect payments before they occur or identifying overpayments downstream.

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“Precision medicine is generating more clinical complexity than any human review organization can keep up with, and genetic testing is the sharp edge of that,” said David Pierre, CEO of Machinify. “We didn’t build a genetic testing tool. We taught our AI to reason about genetic testing the same way it already reasons about the rest of the claim, with deep human expertise built in. That’s the whole idea behind Machinify: as healthcare gets more complex, machine intelligence keeps the lead because every decision makes the next one smarter. That’s how we bend the cost curve.”

The platform applies a specialized genetic testing knowledge base alongside each payer’s medical policies to evaluate claims within their full clinical and contractual context. Grounded in Machinify’s experience supporting Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial health plans, the models are developed, validated, and continuously governed by the company’s board-certified geneticists and clinical experts. Every determination is transparent, defensible, and fully auditable.

The approach is already delivering measurable results. In one Medicaid program, the capability identified more than $70 million in savings across reproductive and pharmacogenomic testing while improving the accuracy of payments for these services going forward.

“Specialty areas like genetic testing are more important than ever; the science is evolving daily, and the spend has accelerated dramatically,” said Tom Magnotta, President of Complex Payment Solutions at Machinify. “We are actively investing in and expanding our content on the platform. Genetic testing is just one of many areas where Machinify is deploying solutions to solve complex challenges for our clients using an AI-first approach.”

The genetic testing solution is available now to Machinify clients through the platform’s real-time pre-payment solution or as a post-payment extension where retrospective recovery is required.

Source: BusinessWire

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Through Desert Financial Digital Investing, members can invest online with flexibility and control, including the ability to purchase fractional shares, allowing them to invest in portions of stocks and exchange-traded funds without needing to buy an entire share. The all-inclusive platform is built into Online Banking and the Desert Financial mobile app.

Fractional shares move with the market like a full share, helping members participate in the market in a self-directed brokerage account. This approach lowers the barrier to entry and makes it easier for members with limited available funds.

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“Investing often feels out of reach for many people, especially those who think they need thousands of dollars to get started,” said Josh Fadel, managing director of Desert Financial Wealth Management. “Our digital investing tools are designed to meet the needs of every member, whether they’re investing for the first time or building long-term wealth.

Desert Financial‘s Digital Investing platform is built to support informed decision-making, giving members investing education, simulated trading tools that allow users to practice investing using test funds (no real money at risk), and even an AI-powered robo-advisor that automatically invests based on individual’s goal and risk tolerance.

Members have the freedom to research, choose investments and learn as they go. With low minimums and an easy-to-use digital experience, the platform supports those who want flexibility and autonomy while growing their financial portfolio.

Source: PRNewswire

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In Hardware and Network news this week…

Keysight Unveils High-Performance Network Cybersecurity Test Platform
Keysight Technologies has introduced a high-performance network cybersecurity test platform designed to help organizations validate the resilience of modern networks against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. The solution enables enterprises and service providers to evaluate network security, performance, and reliability before deployment, reinforcing the importance of proactive cybersecurity testing in complex digital environments.

In Business Technology news this week…

Wrike Launches Conversational AI Agent Builder for Workflows
Wrike has launched a Conversational AI Agent Builder that enables businesses to create AI-powered assistants capable of automating enterprise workflows through natural language interactions. The platform simplifies workflow automation while allowing organizations to integrate AI into day-to-day operations, helping improve productivity and decision-making across teams.

In Cloud Computing & Mobility news this week…

Coforge Launches AI-Powered SecureEdge2Cloud to Neutralize Distributed AI Era Vulnerabilities
Coforge has introduced SecureEdge2Cloud, an AI-powered security platform designed to protect distributed enterprise environments from emerging AI-driven threats. The solution delivers unified security across edge, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures while helping organizations strengthen governance and reduce vulnerabilities in increasingly decentralized IT ecosystems.

In Artificial Intelligence news this week…

Accenture Edge and Google Cloud Launch Agentic AI Solutions for the Mid-Market
Accenture Edge and Google Cloud have partnered to deliver agentic AI solutions tailored for mid-market organizations. The collaboration aims to make enterprise-grade AI more accessible by enabling businesses to automate operations, improve customer experiences, and accelerate digital transformation through intelligent AI agents.

In Quantum Computing news this week…

IBM, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Cleveland Clinic Compute Fusion Materials via Quantum Computing
IBM, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Cleveland Clinic have collaborated to use quantum computing for the simulation of fusion materials. The research demonstrates quantum computing’s growing potential to solve complex scientific challenges that are difficult for classical computers, bringing practical quantum applications closer to reality.

In FinTech news this week…

Curinos and Databricks Partner to Advance Banking Decision Intelligence
Curinos and Databricks have announced a partnership to enhance banking decision intelligence by combining advanced analytics with AI-driven data capabilities. The collaboration aims to help financial institutions make faster, more informed decisions while improving customer engagement, operational efficiency, and business performance.

In HealthTech news this week…

MoveMedical Launches Ask Move AI, the First AI Assistant Purpose-Built for Medical Device Field Operations
MoveMedical has introduced Ask Move AI, an AI assistant specifically designed to support medical device field operations. The solution provides real-time access to operational information, streamlines workflows, and helps field teams improve efficiency while delivering better service to healthcare providers and patients.

In Cybersecurity news this week…

IBM and Red Hat Launch Lightwell to Neutralize Open-Source AI Threat Vector
IBM and Red Hat have launched Lightwell, a security initiative focused on mitigating risks associated with open-source AI software. The platform enhances visibility into AI supply chains while helping enterprises identify vulnerabilities, strengthen governance, and secure AI deployments as open-source AI adoption continues to accelerate.

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Embedded Finance in 2026: How Enterprises Are Transforming Customer Experiences Through Integrated Financial Services

Embedded finance is reshaping how enterprises deliver value by integrating financial services directly into digital products and customer journeys. From embedded payments and lending to insurance and banking services, organizations are creating seamless user experiences while unlocking new revenue streams. As APIs, AI, and cloud technologies continue to evolve, embedded finance is becoming a strategic driver of customer engagement, operational efficiency, and long-term business growth.

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Highlighting the immediate technical advantages of this highly localized data architecture, Olly Downs, Chief Technology, Product & AI Officer of Curinos, noted: “Built-On Databricks isn’t just a certification; it’s a statement of architectural intent. Banks are struggling to innovate with AI while activating the data assets they already have, inside existing governance and model risk frameworks. There’s no better way to bring AI close to your enterprise data than with Databricks and for highly regulated institutions where key data assets can’t leave the firewall, that matters enormously.” By delivering auditable decisions tied directly to proprietary cross-bank intelligence and control-group tracking, the collaborative framework empowers institutions to scale compliant AI applications that actively optimize low-cost deposit gathering, customer retention, and overall yield.

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