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The use of artificial intelligence by banks and payment companies, spanning internal risk and compliance tools and client-facing products like trading and FX.
Goldman Sachs CIO Marco Argenti says the bank's AI goal is moving from saving money to making it. For leaders planning their own rollout, the part worth copying is how he now measures progress, by finished and funded work.
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Singapore's central bank will hold financial firms accountable for vendor-supplied AI from Oct 7, 2027, with full compliance due by Oct 7, 2028. Where a vendor's evidence falls short, the firm has to close the gap with controls of its own.
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Hana Financial Group is moving about 2,200 holding-company and affiliate staff into a new Incheon headquarters beside its data center. Hana expects finance and IT staff sharing floors to build AI-driven services faster, a claim its coming product releases will test.
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Bank of America will double its AI budget next year, CEO Brian Moynihan said; about 140 uses now cost $400 million and yield $800 million in benefit. Its technology chief, Hari Gopalkrishnan, says every AI project goes through a review covering 16 categories of risk.
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Twenty-three Singapore financial firms say more than half of their 80,000-plus local staff have already had the AI training they pledged to finish by 2028. MAS chairman Gan Kim Yong also asked them to redesign jobs, and that part has pilots but no target.
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Ant International says its upgraded forecasting model is in production at Citi, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered and Barclays, with a claim of 60% lower hedging costs attached.
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OpenAI says its new ChatGPT for Financial Services pairs built-in financial data with GPT-6 Astra reasoning for research, modeling and client materials. The announcement does not say where that data comes from.
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OpenAI's financial-services ChatGPT arrives with market data licensed from the vendors banks already pay, and without a published price the buy-or-keep comparison cannot be run. Its own benchmark still misses about three answers in ten.
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A Forbes Tech Council column by Farsight AI's Samir Dutta argues that raw model intelligence is becoming a commodity, and asks enterprise buyers to judge AI on the share of its output that reaches the final deliverable.
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IDC credits multi-agent deployments for European AI growth it puts at 35% a year through 2030, arriving while most high-risk obligations are already in force and the remainder apply from 2 August 2027.
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DLX went live on September 9 and the US wealth platform followed on September 14, while the tokenized repo business Broadridge already runs clears more than $351 billion a day. Ondo Finance and Galaxy Digital sit on the same side of the table.
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A senior Morgan Stanley manager asks anyone who wants an introductory coffee to read three articles first. The request tells her who will spend their own hours before asking for hers.
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American Express is selling small businesses a savings account, a card whose 2% rewards can be redeemed as deposits, and from early 2027 a payroll system whose AI it licenses from Gusto.
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The engineering in OpenAI's financial-services launch sits in the retrieval path, and the flagship model underneath it is the one the API already serves. That split decides what a buyer can build for itself.
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KPMG counts $499m across 53 Singapore fintech deals in the first half, the weakest since at least 2019, and $320m of it went to one cross-border payments platform, leaving 52 other rounds to share $179m.
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Metered spend broke the per-seat budget at Uber, and a dollar ceiling only rations the invoice. Commonwealth Bank shows the version of the same argument that survives a CFO's questions.
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Claude Science adds no new intelligence, only 60-plus database connectors and a reviewer agent. That was enough to move three research-tools vendors, and it reorders how you score AI suppliers.
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Stax says 80% of small firms have used AI in place of a paid expert, but adoption in accounting, HR, legal and insurance stalls between 16% and 25%. That split defines the SMB fight.
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