Banks seek to offload risk to avoid ‘choking’ on data centre debt

Institutional capital is returning to crypto as Bitcoin ETFs surge, prediction markets mature and banks accelerate tokenized finance adoption.

Anthropic is expanding Claude into financial services with AI agents for banks, insurers, asset managers, and fintech teams.

Anthropic’s latest set of Claude AI agents are built for banks, investment managers, and insurers.

Link lets users connect cards, banks, and subscriptions, then authorize AI agents to spend securely via approval flows.

Australia’s financial regulator has warned financial firms that AI agent governance and assurance practices are poorly governed. The warning comes as banks and superannuation trustees expand AI in internal and customer-facing operations. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority said it conducted a targeted review of selected large regulated entities in late 2025 to assess AI adoption […] The post AI agent governance takes focus as regulators flag control gaps appeared first on AI News.

Huge bond offering comes amid concerns over tech giant’s debt load and recent flood of AI-related issuance

This week, something significant happened. Rather than testing the waters in their own way, a big European bank has made a leap into Artificial Intelligence. They’re doing this in partnership with Accenture and Anthropic in order to build an entire AI hub, and it sends a message across the sector: get in line or fall behind! Piraeus Bank, Accenture and Anthropic will build a centralized AI engine to help the bank transform its operations. Okay, hold on a minute. I know what you might be thinking. We’ve been bombarded with this rhetoric for some time: AI will change banking! And […]

Financial institutions must move from reactive defence to predictive technology to combat the criminals