Tag: AI agents

Compliance without AI agents is a losing battle

Financial crime is not standing still. Criminal networks are exploiting increasingly sophisticated technology, transaction volumes keep climbing, and regulatory expectations are growing ever more...

Klaimee lands $5.5m to insure autonomous AI agents

Klaimee, a Y Combinator-backed InsurTech that provides insurance-backed performance warranties for AI agents, has secured $5.5m in seed funding. The round was led by FundersClub's...

Natural raises $30m to power payments for AI agents

Natural, a US startup building a payments stack designed specifically for AI agents, has secured $30m in Series A funding as it races to...

Why CISOs are backing Beacon’s $13m bet on agentic defence

Beacon Security, a platform focused on agentic cybersecurity, has raised $13m in seed funding to develop a trusted data layer designed to help security...

US companies dominated top global FinTech deals in Q2 as investments...

Key global FinTech investment stats in Q2 2026: Global FinTech investments grew 34% YoY in Q2 US companies secured three of the top 10...

Why sycophantic AI is a tax due diligence risk

AI agents are increasingly becoming part of tax due diligence workflows, helping professionals analyse transaction data, identify potential exposures and summarise complex regulatory information....

California emerged as the main US WealthTech hub in Q2 as...

Key US WealthTech investment stats in Q2 2026: US WealthTech deal activity grew by 27% YoY California emerged as the main US WealthTech hub...

Visa and Thredd move closer to the age of agentic commerce

Thredd has joined Visa’s Agentic Ready programme, allowing European issuers using its processing platform to prepare for AI agent-initiated payments without replacing existing payments...

Payouts.com launches Digital Employee AI agents

Payouts.com, a Financial OS for global payouts and finance execution, has unveiled Digital Employee, a collection of role-based AI agents designed to shoulder the...

What actuaries need to know about Agentic AI

The insurance industry is caught in an AI gold rush, but not everything that glitters is fit for actuarial purposes. According to AKUR8, as agentic...

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