The conversation continues on the Finovate Podcast with Finovate VP and Director of Fintech Strategy, Informa Festivals, Greg Palmer! Ahead of the release of the Finovate Podcast Best of Show interview series from FinovateSpring, catch up with episodes ...
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06/01/2026

By David Penn on 2026/06/01 16:15 -0400

The conversation continues on the Finovate Podcast with Finovate VP and Director of Fintech Strategy, Informa Festivals, Greg Palmer!

Ahead of the release of the Finovate Podcast Best of Show interview series from FinovateSpring, catch up with episodes from earlier in the year that you might have missed.

From AI in banking and consumer finance to digital payments and the challenges facing small businesses, Greg Palmer and the Finovate Podcast cover the top issues in fintech...

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) on 2026/06/01 16:12 -0400
  • Gradient Labs raised $26 million in Series A funding to expand its vertical AI platform, bringing its total funding to $42.6 million.
  • The company will use the funds to build autonomous banking tools designed to help financial institutions automate customer operations.
  • The funding shows that banks are shifting from using AI as a bolt-on solution toward using AI agents to autonomously execute operational tasks directly within financial systems.

Conversational AI platform ...

By David Penn on 2026/06/01 11:12 -0400

The first month of summer is upon us! Whether your plans over the next several weeks include time away in exotic locations or sticking to the grindstone, Finovate's Fintech Rundown is here with the fintech news you need to know. Be sure to check back all week long for the latest updates!


Lending

Finastra launches Data Insights 2.0, an analytics solution that helps lenders transform complex data into actionable insights.

Embedded finance

Embedded payments and financing...

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) on 2026/05/29 15:35 -0400
  • Fiserv has partnered with AI agent lab Cognition to use Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, to accelerate banks' core modernization efforts and shorten development cycles.
  • Devin can autonomously plan, write, test, and deploy code across complex codebases, helping Fiserv deliver new features, security updates, and integrations to bank clients faster.
  • Banks increasingly expect quicker deployment cycles and more flexibility, and providing faster infrastructure changes will offer...
By David Penn on 2026/05/28 16:54 -0400

AI is transforming banking and financial services. From simple chatbots to sophisticated AI deployments that are acting with increased independence on behalf of customers, AI-based solutions are driving some of the biggest innovations in our industry—both in terms of customer-facing tools as well as back-office operations.

In this conversation with Merlin Bise, Chief Technology Officer with Inbenta, we discuss the growing role that AI is playing in financial services, what challenges...

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