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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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Schwab is bringing its Charley generative AI assistant to retail clients in October, and M1 has put a fiduciary duty behind an AI adviser that reads clients' real accounts. Barclays expects half its developers to be on Claude Code by the end of 2026, alongside a knowledge assistant with 16,000 users. Mastercard Agent Pay is testing a probability score for AI-initiated card purchases, while Thimble and Bold Penguin now quote small business insurance by having their systems talk to each other directly. Elio Mortgage has raised $5.1 million in pre-seed funding to run a licensed, AI-native mortgage brokerage.

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