Powens, the Paris-based open finance infrastructure provider, launched its Connector Agentic Factory on 28 October 2026, an internal AI system that builds new Powens connectors in a couple of hours instead of up to three weeks and cuts a typical repair from up to two days to 10 to 15 minutes, according to Powens’ announcement. Fintechbits checked Powens’ own website, which describes the company as profitable and lists more than 300 clients and more than 120 staff across France, Spain and Mexico, context the launch announcement leaves out.

How Powens connectors are built and fixed now

Connectors are the links that let a bank, fintech or lender pull a customer’s financial data, or start a payment, from another institution. Powens maintains more than 1,800 of them across Europe. When a bank changes its systems, a connector can break, and every client relying on it loses data until it is fixed.

The new system examines how an institution’s systems work and builds a connection, and it has delivered 12 new Powens connectors this way across banking, wealth and document sources. For repairs, it investigates the failure and proposes a fix. Half of its proposed fixes are approved directly by Powens engineers, and every change is reviewed before it goes live. Powens stresses that the AI never touches data or payments, only the connector code.

That 50% approval rate is the honest number in the launch. It means half the proposals still need human rework, and the 15-minute claim applies to the fixes that pass. Even so, connector uptime is what open finance clients pay for, as the push toward bank-built APIs such as TD’s Akoya rollout shows. If Powens connectors break less often and recover faster than rivals’, that is a real selling point for lenders and embedded finance platforms.