Perfios Unveils AI‑Powered ‘Journey Builder’ to Help Banks Launch New Financial Products in Days, Not Months

Perfios launches Journey Builder, an AI‑powered, low‑code platform that helps banks cut product launch times by 60%+ and adapt faster to regulatory and market change.

India’s financial institutions have no shortage of data. What they do lack—often painfully—is speed. Turning customer insights into live, compliant financial products still takes months, tangled up in rigid loan origination systems, siloed teams, and regulatory complexity.

Perfios Launches AI Journey Builder for Faster Banking Products

Zocks Raises $45M Series B to Expand AI Platform for Financial Advisors

Zocks, the privacy‑first AI platform designed for financial advisors, has raised $45 million in Series B funding, co‑led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and QED Investors, with participation from Illuminate Financial and all existing investors. This latest round brings Zocks’ total funding to $65 million, following its $13.8 million Series A in March 2025.

Zocks Raises $45M to Expand AI Platform for Advisors

Bybit Launches First AI vs. Human Crypto Trading Showdown on Centralized Exchange

Bybit, the world’s second‑largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is turning heads with a first‑of‑its‑kind experiment: a live, AI‑versus‑human trading competition using real capital and the exchange’s production infrastructure. The initiative is set to kick off in March 2026, putting AI trading teams head‑to‑head against human traders in a season‑based contest designed for speed, strategy, and precision.

Bybit Launches Live AI vs. Human Crypto Trading Contest

Morgan International Finance Invests $90 Million in Jiuzi Holdings, Accelerating Blockchain & Web3 Push

Morgan International Finance’s latest strike—$90 million for a 30 % stake in China‑based Jiuzi Holdings—signals a decisive bet on the convergence of blockchain, Web3 and artificial intelligence in the fast‑moving fintech arena. The infusion comes at $3 per share, valuing Jiuzi at roughly $300 million and providing the capital needed to fast‑track a suite of initiatives that could reshape how Chinese enterprises and consumers interact with decentralized technologies.

Morgan Invests $90M in Jiuzi Holdings to Accelerate Blockchain

Pagaya Debuts $350M Revolving ABS to Unlock New Long-Term Capital for Personal Loans

Pagaya Technologies is expanding its financial engineering playbook—and doing so at a moment when capital efficiency matters more than ever. The AI-driven fintech announced the closing of PAID 2025-REV1, a $350 million asset-backed securitization (ABS) backed by consumer personal loans originated across the Pagaya network. While Pagaya is no stranger to public ABS markets, this deal breaks new ground for the company’s personal loan business.

Pagaya Debuts $350M Revolving ABS to Unlock New Long-Term Capital for Personal Loans

Pluto Financial Launches AI-Powered Lending Platform to Unlock Private Market Liquidity

Pluto Financial Technologies, Inc. has officially launched the first AI-powered lending platform designed specifically for private markets, backed by heavyweight investors including Motive Ventures, Portage, Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO), Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE), Tectonic Ventures, and Broadhaven Ventures. The startup has raised $8.6 million in equity and secured hundreds of millions in lending capacity, signaling its intent to transform private market liquidity.

Pluto Financial Launches AI-Powered Lending Platform to Unlock Private Market Liquidity

GTreasury Acquires No-Code Financial Automation Provider Solvexia, Extends Treasury and Finance Platform

CHICAGO, IL, SAN FRANCISCO, CA and SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – January 6, 2026 – GTreasury, a Ripple Solution, today announced the acquisition of Solvexia, a leading provider of no-code financial automation, data management, and analytics solutions. The acquisition expands GTreasury’s platform to automate reconciliation and regulatory reporting across treasury, finance, and compliance operations, addressing one of the most…

GTreasury Acquires Solvexia to Automate Finance

GTreasury Unveils AI-Powered GSmart Risk Insights to Transform Treasury Risk Management

Treasury teams are about to spend less time crunching charts and more time making strategic moves. GTreasury, a fintech solution for CFOs, has rolled out GSmart Risk Insights, an AI-driven risk insights engine integrated directly into its Exposure Management platform. The move aims to help finance teams interpret complex interest rate and FX exposures faster, detect anomalies, and produce board-ready summaries with minimal manual effort.

GTreasury Unveils AI-Powered GSmart Risk Insights to Transform Treasury Risk Management