The Growth Agent is built to solve one of the industry’s most pressing challenges: deposit acquisition and retention in a high-velocity market. It leverages MX’s customer analytics and data enrichment to identify deposit opportunities in real-time. These insights are then funneled into Primitive’s agentic operating system, which executes targeted campaigns and manages complex back-office workflows including automated direct deposit switching.

“The real challenge for banks hasn’t been a lack of data, but the difficulty of transforming that data into an enhanced, actionable asset at scale,” said Ryan Caldwell, founder and CEO of MX. “This partnership helps close the gap between customer data intelligence and measurable growth by expanding MX’s current framework where insights can trigger secure, governed actions. We’re enabling a level of personalized service and back-office efficiency that was previously difficult to achieve at scale, all while supporting the rigorous transparency and oversight that regulated institutions require.”

The partnership introduces a joint go-to-market offering that provides these growth agents directly to banks and credit unions. This collaboration leverages MX’s excellence in front-end consumer experiences and data insights alongside Primitive’s specialized agentic AI operating system for bank operations. By combining MX’s open banking connectivity with Primitive’s token optimization across LLM providers, financial institutions can now deploy sophisticated AI that is both cost-effective and operationally secure.

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Key Growth Agent Capabilities:

• The “Grow Agent” Framework: An industry-first collaboration that identifies external deposit opportunities using MX aggregated and consumer-permissioned data and executes automated recovery and retention strategies.
• Three-Layer Agentic Architecture: Built on Primitive’s robust foundation featuring secure gateways, agent orchestration, and an Executive Agentic Capital Dashboard for real-time performance oversight.
• Precision Data Enrichment: Leverages MX’s proprietary transaction categorization, life-stage inference, and propensity scoring to predict which customers are most likely to increase their deposit share.
• Automated Campaign Executions: Streamlines the movement of funds through integrated direct deposit switching (via Atomic) and automated bill pay and automated account funding workflows.
• Enterprise-Grade Governance: A native “human-in-the-loop” workflow that incorporates existing bank risk frameworks without requiring system changes, ensuring every agent stays compliant.
• Secure MCP-Enabled Integration: Utilizes the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and MX’s consumer-permissioned third party data to ensure data remains secure within the financial institution while allowing agents to process real-time analytics.

“Our long-term vision is clear: AI agents will soon act as a massive force multiplier for human capital, allowing financial institutions to scale their reach and operational impact without losing the personal touch,” said Derek White, Founder and CEO of Primitive. “This partnership positions both companies at the center of that evolution. By integrating MX’s deep data enrichment with our agentic assembly and orchestration layers, we’re giving banks a plug-and-play workforce that is compliant, traceable, and incredibly effective at driving revenue.”

Source: GlobeNewswire

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“We’ve spent years building our expertise in blockchain, and now we’re expanding that work by running critical blockchain infrastructure ourselves,” said Cuy Sheffield, Head of Crypto, Visa. The company added that its participation aligns with its broader strategy to support stablecoin payment systems and ensure enterprise-grade standards for emerging digital payment ecosystems. Tempo noted that Visa’s global transaction expertise makes it a strong fit for validating payments at scale.

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The multi-year agreement reflects OneAZ’s continued commitment to investing in a digital platform that evolves alongside member expectations and supports the credit union’s broader growth strategy. With more than 230,000 members and 25 branches across Arizona, OneAZ has relied on Lumin’s cloud-native platform to deliver intuitive, secure, and flexible digital banking capabilities to its members.

“Our partnership with Lumin has enabled us to create a digital banking experience that is flexible, forward-looking, and centered on our members,” said Nihar Pilla, Vice President of Digital Services at OneAZ Credit Union. “This renewal enables us to build on that momentum and continue advancing our digital strategy as our members’ needs evolve.”

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Since launching on the Lumin platform in 2021, OneAZ has expanded its digital banking capabilities across retail, business, and commercial banking, including enhanced card services and additional features, resulting in more than 200,000 digital banking users, over 112,000 monthly active mobile app users, and app ratings of 4.85 on iOS and 4.80 on Google Play.

“Working with OneAZ has been both meaningful and impactful,” said Lisa Daniels, Chief Operating Officer at Lumin Digital. “It’s been a privilege to work alongside the OneAZ team, and we’re grateful for the continued trust they place in us as we enter this next phase of our partnership.”

Lumin’s cloud-native architecture enables financial institutions to innovate efficiently, deploy enhancements rapidly, and adapt to changing market conditions without the constraints of legacy infrastructure. Throughout the relationship, the two organizations have worked closely to align product roadmaps, operational priorities, and member experience initiatives. As OneAZ continues to refine its digital strategy, the renewed partnership positions the credit union to build on its existing foundation while maintaining flexibility for future growth.

Source: BusinessWire

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“Cloud costs keep getting harder to manage, and the core problem isn’t missing data, it’s too much data without context,” said Matt Biringer, Co-Founder and CEO of North. “We spent three years watching this problem compound across hundreds of companies. Noros is what we built to fix it: an agent that can take the full complexity of a cloud environment, understand what it means for your business, and tell you what to do about it.”

An AI Agent Built for Every Seat at the Table

Noros was built from the ground up as a unified system. Where most cloud cost tools are reactive alerting after a spike has already happened Noros tracks the KPIs your business cares about, surfaces anomalies before they compound, and connects cloud data to business outcomes in plain language.

At the center of Noros is a cloud finance LLM trained on simulations from over 10 million optimization data points. It operates on raw cost and usage data, analyzing hundreds of columns across services, resources, usage types, pricing models, and time to surface how cost behavior actually emerges.

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Noros allows teams to:

• Get direct answers to hard questions: Ask why spend jumped 22% last month, which teams are driving cost increases, or whether you’re on track to hit your yearly target. Noros reasons across the full dataset and returns clear, contextual answers grounded in your actual environment. It maintains context across follow-ups, refining the explanation as you dig deeper rather than restarting the analysis.
• Access automated reporting on a schedule: Noros generates analysis and reports in the visualization format your team needs. Set a cadence and updated reports are delivered weekly, monthly, or on a schedule of your choosing.
• Enforce FinOps goals: Manual FinOps priorities get crowded out by urgent work. Noros keeps them on track by understanding your goals and project managing tasks from conception to completion.
• Explore data interactively: Ask Noros to build a dashboard and it generates one in real time, tailored to what you’re investigating. Teams can surface exactly the views they need without relying on a data analyst or predefined reports, essentially building their own FinOps product agentically.

Built on Three Years of FinOps Data

Noros is a new product built within the North ecosystem. North has spent three years working with hundreds of engineering and finance teams across cloud providers, and the model at the center of Noros reflects that depth. The system doesn’t just answer queries. It improves within each domain over time as each specialist agent develops a sharper understanding of its area.

Source: PRNewswire

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While many financial institutions using FedNow® currently support only incoming payments, SoFi is among the first to offer full bidirectional functionality. Galileo provides the underlying infrastructure, secure connectivity, and operational controls required to facilitate these real-time transactions at scale.

“For customers, waiting days for money to show up doesn’t match how payments work today,” said Bill Kennedy, CFO and interim head of Galileo. “By pairing FedNow® Service with Galileo’s platform, SoFi gives members instant access to their money whenever they need it, while we manage the infrastructure behind the scenes. It also lays the groundwork to bring the same instant payment capabilities to partners in the future.”

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Anthony Noto, CEO of SoFi, emphasized the importance of immediacy in modern financial services. “Helping our members get their money right means giving them control over their money in real time, not days later,” he said. “Money should move instantly and without limits, but legacy technology and data systems fail to provide a safe and reliable platform to achieve instant and limitless money movement. By integrating FedNow into our Galileo payment hub platform, we are among the first companies to enable both sending and receiving funds via FedNow, giving SoFi members instant, 24/7 access to their money.”

This development solves the long-time pain point of customers who have been suffering from slow transactions in regular ACH transfers. Account holders can now transfer money among their own bank accounts instantaneously, allowing them to have immediate access to their funds for daily use like paying bills or managing their account balances.

In addition to improving the customer experience, the implementation of the integration paves the way for further adoption throughout the fintech landscape. Since Galileo is directly linked to the FedNow® network, other financial institutions can replicate its ability to conduct real-time transactions without needing to build new systems.

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In Hardware and Network news this week…

Keysight and Sateliot Win ESA and GSMA Foundry Challenge, Advancing 6G Innovation
Keysight Technologies and Sateliot have been recognized by the European Space Agency and GSMA for their contributions to next-generation network innovation. Their work focuses on integrating satellite and terrestrial networks to support emerging 6G use cases. This milestone signals growing momentum toward hybrid connectivity models that will define future communication ecosystems.

In Business Technology news this week…

Kyndryl Launches AI-Powered Digital Twin to Transform Workplace Operations
Kyndryl has introduced an AI-powered digital twin solution designed to optimize workplace operations. By creating virtual replicas of physical environments, the platform enables organizations to simulate, analyze, and improve workflows in real time. This innovation reflects the growing adoption of digital twins as a strategic tool for operational efficiency and decision-making.

In Cloud Computing & Edge AI news this week…

Adtran Unveils Ensemble Cloudlet Multinode to Simplify High-Availability Edge AI Deployments
Adtran has launched its Ensemble Cloudlet Multinode solution to streamline edge AI deployments. The platform is designed to ensure high availability and scalability, enabling enterprises to deploy AI workloads closer to the source of data. As edge computing gains traction, such solutions are critical for reducing latency and supporting real-time applications.

In Information and Communications news this week…

Genpact Partners with Parallel Web Systems to Enhance AI-Driven Research and Workflow Efficiency
Genpact has partnered with Parallel Web Systems to improve enterprise research and workflow processes through AI. The collaboration focuses on automating knowledge discovery and enhancing productivity across business functions. This partnership highlights the increasing role of AI in transforming enterprise workflows.

In Data Science & Analytics news this week…

Anomalo Introduces Autonomous Self-Driving Data System to Redefine Enterprise Data Operations
Anomalo has launched a self-driving data system designed to automate data quality and monitoring processes. By leveraging AI, the platform identifies anomalies, ensures data reliability, and reduces manual oversight. This development underscores the importance of autonomous data operations in enabling scalable and trustworthy AI systems.

In FinTech news this week…

Visa Launches Intelligent Commerce Connect to Power AI-Driven Payments Ecosystem
Visa has introduced Intelligent Commerce Connect, a platform aimed at enabling AI-driven payment experiences. The solution supports advanced analytics, automation, and seamless integration across commerce ecosystems. This reflects the continued evolution of digital payments toward intelligent, personalized financial services.

In HealthTech news this week…

Clinical AI Launches MAIA Prescreening on Google Cloud Marketplace to Accelerate Clinical Trials
Clinical AI has introduced its MAIA prescreening solution on the Google Cloud Marketplace. The platform leverages AI to streamline patient identification and recruitment for clinical trials, reducing time and improving accuracy. This innovation highlights the role of AI in accelerating healthcare research and improving outcomes.

In Cybersecurity news this week…

Dashlane and KnowBe4 Integrate to Turn Security Awareness into Real-Time Proactive Defense
Dashlane and KnowBe4 have integrated their platforms to create a proactive cybersecurity defense model. The collaboration combines user education with real-time threat detection, enabling organizations to strengthen their human layer of security. As cyber threats evolve, such integrated approaches are becoming essential.

Article of the Week

Information Security in 2026: How Enterprises Protect Data, Systems, and Digital Trust in an Evolving Threat Landscape

Information security is undergoing a significant transformation as enterprises face increasingly complex and AI-driven threats. Organizations are moving toward integrated security strategies that combine automation, intelligence, and continuous monitoring. Protecting digital trust now requires a holistic approach that spans data, systems, and user behavior. As the threat landscape evolves, enterprises that prioritize resilience and proactive defense will be better equipped to safeguard their operations and maintain customer confidence.

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“The industry has reached a tipping point where traditional, siloed defenses are no longer sufficient,” said Stuart Jones, Jr., CEO of Sigma360. “Through integration with Consilient, Sigma360 has moved beyond data aggregation. We deliver an integrated ‘always-on brain’ for compliance departments that learns, adapts and identifies risk at scale.” The collaboration signals a shift toward dynamic, AI-driven compliance models that enhance accuracy, scalability, and cross-institutional cooperation in combating financial crime.

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Creators have often depended on external sites or separate e-commerce tools for transactions. This process added friction for buyers. Now, with this integration, users can create payment links or QR codes. They can embed these into digital or printed designs. This allows customers to pay seamlessly through social media, messaging apps, email, or even in-person.

The launch arrives as social commerce grows. More transactions happen within content and online communities instead of traditional stores. By embedding payments into creative assets, PayPal and Canva want to help users take advantage of this shift. They aim to turn everyday content into revenue opportunities.

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“Today’s entrepreneurs are no longer only building traditional storefronts—they are creating profitable businesses in real time through social content, online communities, and direct conversations,” said Taira Hall, Senior Vice President and Head of SMB Commercial at PayPal. “By pairing PayPal’s trusted global payment infrastructure with Canva’s creative workflow, we’re reducing the friction between inspiration and income and meeting them at point of need. With PayPal integrated directly in Canva, creators can move seamlessly from creating to getting paid.”

The feature includes several payment methods, like PayPal, Venmo, and Pay Later options, and extends globally to almost 200 markets and currencies. Besides, customers can set up individualized checkout pages featuring their products and prices, which are complemented by PayPal’s security and anti-fraud measures.

Integrating commerce right into the making of design, hi collaboration illustrates a bigger change in the way digital creators and small enterprises interact with customers – turning content into an immediate and expandable source of the revenue.

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Pedro joins at a pivotal inflection point. Across financial services, AI experimentation is near-universal. Production deployment is not. Not because the technology is incapable, but because something fundamental is missing from the architecture: the reasoning layer that sits above the data, allowing AI to operate on economic information with the logic, semantics, and domain understanding that macroeconomic analysis actually requires. Macrobond’s ambition is to build that layer, and to build it on a foundation no competitor can replicate.

Leading the Next Era of Macro Intelligence

The next phase of macro research will not be defined by who has access to the most data. It will be defined by who can make that data intelligent, traceable, and ready to act on. Pedro Rodrigues has spent over 15 years building exactly that capability for global financial institutions, turning the most complex economic data environments into production-ready AI systems that researchers and decision makers can actually trust.

At Macrobond, he inherits a foundation that no competitor can replicate quickly: more than 300 million normalized time series from 2,500 global sources, curated and governed over 20 years, with full data lineage and traceable transformations built in from the start. That infrastructure is what allows Macrobond’s AI to be purpose-built rather than retrofitted. Where most AI tools in financial services are layered on top of fragmented data, Macrobond’s intelligence layer grows from the data up. Pedro’s mandate is to push that advantage further and faster, scaling it into the workflows, systems, and decision environments where the next generation of macro research will happen.

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Every Macro Decision, Powered by Trusted Intelligence

Macrobond is building toward a singular goal: every macro decision powered by trusted data, AI that thinks like an expert, and insights that can be fully understood and defended.

That vision rests on a platform designed for three distinct audiences who share a common need for a trusted foundation:

Insight Producers, including economists, analysts, and strategists who build and publish research, need to move from data discovery to defensible published view without manual reconciliation, unstable pipelines, or trust gaps in the AI layer.

Decision Makers, including CIOs, portfolio managers, and chief economists, need research delivered in the flow of their work, with the ability to interrogate sources, trace reasoning, and act with confidence.

Builders, including developers, quants, and platform teams, need licensed, governed macro data that plugs directly into their infrastructure, models, and agentic workflows without requiring a rebuild.

The appointment of Pedro accelerates Macrobond’s ability to serve all three, at scale, across the enterprise, and in real time.

Source: BusinessWire

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“From small businesses to the world’s biggest retailers, Visa powers how people pay every day, millions of times over,” said Andrew Torre, President of Value-Added Services at Visa. “Intelligent Commerce Connect brings that same, trusted payment acceptance infrastructure into the emerging world of AI-driven commerce, so businesses can let AI agents buy on behalf of consumers, securely and at scale.” The solution also enables merchants to make product catalogs discoverable within AI platforms and supports compliance and orchestration, positioning Visa at the forefront of the evolving agentic commerce ecosystem.

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