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Alex McDougall on FUTR AI Agents: The Future of Commerce, Payments, and Data Ownership

1. What inspired you to build FUTR’s AI agent platform, and how does it reflect your view of where commerce is heading? We built FUTR around a simple shift that’s already happening: commerce is moving from interaction to delegation. Today, people still have to do everything themselves. You search, compare, and transact across a bunch…

AI Agents Set to Transform Commerce: FUTR CEO

Wells Fargo Hits Billion‑Interaction Milestone with AI Assistant Fargo, Surpasses 33 Million Mobile Users

Since its launch, Fargo has facilitated over a billion conversational exchanges, a volume the bank attributes to a combination of natural‑language processing improvements and a focused rollout strategy that prioritized ease of use. In the same reporting period, the Wells Fargo Mobile® app recorded 33 million active users—a figure that eclipses the platform’s user base just a…

Wells Fargo’s AI assistant hits 1 billion interactions

Jump Introduces AI Associate, a Real‑Time Execution Layer for Wealth‑Management Advisors

When the conversation around artificial intelligence in wealth management shifts from “what can we learn?” to “what can we do?”, Jump’s latest offering lands squarely in the middle of that transition. The firm, a long‑standing provider of AI‑driven solutions for financial advisors, announced the rollout of AI Associate—an agent‑style module that converts conversational insights into…

Jump launches AI Associate for real‑time advisory action

CSI Teams Up with Carefull to Bolster Elder‑Fraud Safeguards for Banks and Credit Unions

A strategic alliance aimed at protecting senior account holders CSI, a long‑standing provider of comprehensive financial software solutions, announced a partnership with Carefull, a niche platform that specializes in shielding older adults from financial scams. The collaboration will allow CSI’s banking and credit‑union clientele to embed Carefull’s fraud‑prevention tools directly into their digital channels, giving…

CSI‑Carefull partnership strengthens elder‑fraud defenses

SoFi Scales Loan Platform Business with $3.6 Billion in New Partnerships

SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ: SOFI) announced on Monday that it has secured three new agreements that together commit more than $3.6 billion in personal‑loan delivery. The deals, which involve a leading global bank, a diversified financial‑services and insurance group, and a top‑five private‑asset‑management firm, expand the company’s Loan Platform Business (LPB) and reinforce its strategy of providing capital‑light,…

SoFi adds $3.6B in loan platform partnerships

Xero Teams Up with Anthropic to Embed Claude’s AI into Small‑Business Accounting Platform

Xero (ASX: XRO), the cloud‑based accounting platform that serves millions of small enterprises worldwide, has entered a multi‑year partnership with Anthropic, the creator of the Claude family of large language models. The collaboration will embed Claude’s generative‑AI capabilities directly inside Xero and, conversely, feed Xero’s financial data into Claude.ai. The move promises to give accountants,…

Xero‑Anthropic AI partnership brings Claude to small‑businesses

Catalis Deploys Unified Digital Tax Payment Platform Across 240 Wisconsin Municipalities

Catalis’ cloud‑based solution aims to streamline property‑tax collection for local governments, marking a notable step toward modernizing municipal finance infrastructure. A coordinated push for online tax collection Catalis, a provider of technology solutions for public sector finance, announced that its unified tax payment platform is now live in 240 municipalities spanning nine counties in Wisconsin….

Catalis Launches Unified Tax Payment Platform in Wisconsin

HawkSoft Teams with RevitPay to Embed Direct API Payments in Agency Management Platform

A strategic API tie‑up reshapes payment workflows for independent insurers HawkSoft announced that RevitPay has become its official payments partner after RevitPay acquired the ePaymints integration. The new direct‑API connection embeds payment processing inside HawkSoft’s agency management system (AMS), allowing insurers to accept digital premiums, reconcile transactions automatically, and access next‑day or same‑day funding without…

HawkSoft‑RevitPay API embeds payments in insurance AMS

MANTL Teams Up with Rhinebeck Bank to Accelerate Omnichannel Account Opening for Community Lenders

A new chapter in community‑bank digital onboarding MANTL—an Alkami‑backed solution team specializing in loan and deposit account origination—announced a strategic alliance with Rhinebeck Bank, a New York‑based community bank listed on Nasdaq under the ticker RBKB. The collaboration aims to overhaul the bank’s account‑opening workflow across both physical branches and digital channels, delivering a unified, low‑friction…

MANTL & Rhinebeck Bank Launch Omnichannel Account Opening Platform

FIS Unveils Real‑Time Clearing Platform Tailored for Regulated Prediction Markets

A new frontier in post‑trade infrastructure Financial technology giant Financial technology giant FIS® announced the rollout of FIS CD Prediction Clearing, a cloud‑native platform designed to provide continuous, real‑time clearing for regulated prediction markets. The service promises 24‑hour, seven‑day‑a‑week post‑trade support, a capability that legacy clearing systems have struggled to deliver at the scale required…

FIS launches real‑time clearing for prediction markets