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AI in finance covers what financial institutions have put into production, which is often less than they announce. Fintechbits tracks the models and agents doing real work in underwriting, fraud detection, compliance review, customer service and document processing, and the results once someone measures them instead of demonstrating them. Coverage includes the banks and fintechs building on large language models, the vendors selling to them, and the regulators deciding what counts as an explainable decision. It is the largest single subject on the site, so the hub concentrates on what separates a deployment from a pilot: who is using it, at what volume, and what it replaced. Model releases are covered where they change what a financial firm can do.

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Visa and Mastercard programmes now let AI agents make real card purchases, but liability rules are still not ready when an authorised agent buys the wrong thing. Socure launched detection to spot AI agents and tie each one to a verified person, while Greenboard and Intuit released AI tools for compliance teams and accounting firms. Powens now uses AI to build and repair bank connections, and in AML and fraud, Hummingbird bought Quantimon as industry leaders said models catch known fraud well but new schemes and fake documents still beat them.

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