Cybersecurity firm Armadin says it has raised $255.5 million in new funding. The company’s Series B round, announced Thursday (Oct. 1), values Aramdin at more than $2.5 billion and will help it scale its agentic security platform, research, training and go-to-market efforts. “Seven months after emer...

Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) has introduced a FRED MCP Connector that uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to simplify connecting FRED data with artificial intelligence systems, Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher J. Waller said Thursday (Oct. 1). In a speech delivered during FRED Co...

The retail landscape used to have four primary levers: share of shoppers, share of sellers, share of advertising dollars and share of wallet. However, artificial intelligence (AI) is creating the fifth and sixth levers: share of decision-making and share of intent infrastructure. Headlines this week...

DoorDash customers can now order dinner by sending a text. The company’s new artificial intelligence (AI) agent works inside Apple’s Messages, builds the cart and handles checkout without the DoorDash app ever opening. DoorDash unveiled the text-to-order agent on Wednesday (Sept. 30) and opened a wa...

Microsoft has launched three new artificial intelligence models that can be used to power customer service agents, multilingual assistants, interactive learning experiences and live captions and voice-driven interfaces, according to a Thursday (Oct. 1) blog post. “Together, they give developers more...

OpenAI has “parted ways” with three employees who allegedly shared company information with an organization focused on artificial intelligence safety, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday (Oct. 1), citing unnamed sources. Asked about the report by the WSJ, an OpenAI spokesperson said, per the r...

Wall Street’s embrace of digital assets has reached the point where saying a bank is “doing blockchain” reveals almost nothing about what it can actually do on-chain. One bank may be experimenting with tokenized securities inside an innovation lab. Another may let corporate customers move tokenized ...

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Author: A finextra community member

Author: A finextra community member

Post-incident fraud management needs to adapt. But how?

Modern issuing doesn’t only evolve technological change; it requires operating model transformation.