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Backbase buys Kasisto, folding one of conversational banking's originals into 'agentic banking'

Backbase buys Kasisto, folding one of conversational banking's originals into 'agentic banking'

Backbase has acquired Kasisto, an SRI International spin-out and one of the longest-running names in conversational AI for banking, folding its agentic platform into the 'AI-native Banking OS'.

Affordability assessments are quietly becoming a conversational AI job

Affordability assessments are quietly becoming a conversational AI job

A run of recent client wins for UK startup Inicio AI points to a quiet shift in lending and collections: the income and expenditure assessment, long a friction point handled by call-centre agents, is moving to a chatbot.

Nordea and Mastercard Complete Finland's First Live AI Agent Payment

Nordea and Mastercard Complete Finland's First Live AI Agent Payment

An AI agent autonomously bought a product and paid for it on a customer's behalf. The coffee was cheap; the implications for agentic commerce are not.

How Monzo Bank Built Their Own AI Agent For Live Customer Support - Without Losing Control

How Monzo Bank Built Their Own AI Agent For Live Customer Support - Without Losing Control

Monzo's Ops Agent now handles routine work across 150+ customer intents. The lesson for deploying conversational AI in a regulated setting is in the guardrails, not the model.

Specialist vs general AI agents for Debt Collection

Specialist vs general AI agents for Debt Collection

Wired reports US debt collection is being automated at extraordinary scale. London's Inicio AI offers a glimpse of what a more thoughtful version of the same technology can look like.

Gen Z Is Replacing Google With ChatGPT, and Brands Should Be Paying Attention

Gen Z Is Replacing Google With ChatGPT, and Brands Should Be Paying Attention

A new report from social marketing agency Sociallyin argues that the generational

Lloyds Puts an AI Agent in the Boardroom: What CX and AI Teams Should Notice

Lloyds Puts an AI Agent in the Boardroom: What CX and AI Teams Should Notice

An AI agent has taken a seat in the boardroom of one

Development Bank of Wales Awards AI Training Contract in Sign of Growing Organisational AI Adoption

Development Bank of Wales Awards AI Training Contract in Sign of Growing Organisational AI Adoption

The Development Bank of Wales has awarded a £50,000 contract for

Starling Bank Launches UK's First Agentic AI Financial Assistant

Starling Bank Launches UK's First Agentic AI Financial Assistant

Following NatWest's launch of agentic AI through Cora, Starling Bank

PolyAI Ranked #12 on Sunday Times 100 Tech List for 2026

PolyAI Ranked #12 on Sunday Times 100 Tech List for 2026

Super congratulations to London-based voice AI company PolyAI, which has landed

Satish Thiagarajan, CEO, Brysa

Satish Thiagarajan, CEO, Brysa

Satish Thiagarajan is the founder and CEO of Brysa, a Salesforce consulting

NatWest Launches Agentic AI Money Management with Cora, Powered by OpenAI

NatWest Launches Agentic AI Money Management with Cora, Powered by OpenAI

I wrote a while back about NatWest's enterprise agreement with