What do banks and other financial institutions need to do in order to ensure that their investments in AI deliver as promised? Why has asking the hard questions and conducting thorough due diligence before implementation become critical to a successful AI deployment? What should banks expect from AI vendors and, importantly, what should banks expect from themselves to make these high-risk, high-reward partnerships work?
In this Finovate Podcast conversation, host Greg Palmer talks with...
- Constructor partnered with Stripe to launch Agentic Checkout, enabling shoppers and AI agents to move from product discovery to purchase within a single AI-powered shopping experience.
- The tool integrates Stripe's payments infrastructure with Constructor's AI Shopping Agent, allowing customers to pay via Link by Stripe or other payment methods without leaving the agent experience.
- The launch helps close a key gap in agentic commerce by bringing discovery and checkout together,...
- Trustly has secured equity commitment letters of more than $40 million from its principal shareholder, Nordic Capital, and Alfvén & Didrikson. The capital raise is expected to conclude in November.
- Trustly will use the capital to fund the next stage of its growth strategy, which includes accelerating the development of new products that use AI to bring real-time intelligence to payments.
- Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Trustly made its Finovate debut at...
It's the first full week of October, which means it is officially Spooky Season. However, while there's lots of fintech news to catch up on this week, none of it is too scary. So take a peek at what fintechs are up to in this week’s list of the top fintech news. We’ll continue to update this post with news throughout the week.
Business financial management
Basware completes acquisition of Trustpair.
Agentic commerce
Constructor launches agentic checkout powered by ...
- PayNearMe launched an AI Servicing and Collections Agent that handles inbound and outbound customer interactions, including calls, texts, payment scheduling, and issue resolution.
- The Agent is embedded in PayNearMe’s PayXM platform, allowing it to use payment data, business rules, and workflows to take action while escalating cases that require human assistance.
- The launch reflects agentic AI’s shift from assistance to execution, demonstrating how AI can move beyond answering...
