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🟠 Just Released: The Banking Brief In this week’s edition: → We break down the results of the first-ever Evident AI Index for Payments, spotlight the most innovative use cases, and meet the five payments leaders to watch. → JPMorganChase's Investor Day topped the banking news cycle this week when Jamie Dimon revealed half of the firms AI gains now come from revenue uplifts. → Anthropic put a target on finance jobs by unveiling new plugins that teach Claude investment banking and wealth management tasks – and it's spooking the market. People mentioned: Diego Paul Fabara, Jack Forestell, Greg Ulrich, Ravi Radhakrishnan, Enrique Lores, Emily Glassberg Sands, Jamie Dimon, Marianne Lake, Mary Callahan Erdoes, Manuela Veloso, Ganesh Chandrasekar, Jen French, Andrew Haynes, Biswa Sengupta PhD and others. 👉 Read the latest edition of the Banking Brief: https://lnkd.in/ee7jHvVN 📩 The Evident Banking Brief is a go-to source for data-driven insights on how banks are adopting AI. Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/eJMwHfV3

📣 Delighted to announce Greg Ulrich, Chief AI and Data Officer at Mastercard will be joining us for a virtual roundtable on Tuesday 10 March to unpack the findings from the inaugural Evident AI Index for Payments. On the agenda: • Where payments companies are on their journey to AI maturity – and who's leading the way • The most high-impact use cases and where the greatest ROI opportunities lie • How the rise of Agentic Commerce is creating new opportunities ▶️ Register your place here: https://lnkd.in/eq5GJva4

🚨 OUT NOW: The Evident AI Index | Payments We’re delighted to announce the launch of the inaugural Evident AI Index for Payments. The first benchmark of its kind, the Index ranks 12 of the sector’s biggest players on four critical pillars of AI capability: Talent, Innovation, Leadership and Transparency. Together, they illustrate the payments companies leading the way on AI - and those falling behind. ⭐ Who's leading the AI race? 🥇Visa (#1) takes the top spot. Years of consistent investment sees Visa excel across all four pillars. Placing #1 in AI Innovation, the Index leader publishes the most research papers and has filed more than 350 patents. 🥈Mastercard (#2) ranks a close second. Top down leadership, a strong track record of reporting impact and a grounding in responsible AI sees the payments giant claim the #1 spot in both AI Leadership and Transparency. 🥉PayPal (#3) rounds out the podium. Ranking #1 for talent, PayPal represents 18% of all AI talent across the Index and boasts almost 3x as much talent than other payments processors. They experiment, build and deploy – fast. To explore the full ranking, and download the key findings report: https://lnkd.in/e3Kt3-CE #evidentaiindex #artificialintelligence #payments #financialservices

🟠 Just Released: The Brief | AI remakes the org chart In this week’s edition: → Era of AI Execution: JPMorganChase's is doubling down on putting the business side in charge of AI, promoting Guy Halamish to COO of Commercial and Investment Bank with one clear mandate: "maximize the impact of AI". → Top 3 AI Deals of 2025: Banks aren't just using tech venture investments to sharpen their own operations, but to position themselves to capitalize on the biggest AI trends across the sector. We break down three of these deals from the new Evident AI Venture Tracker. → How to Read a Model Release: Our new how-to series helps you decode what actually matters in the flurry of new model announcements. Up first: cost. People mentioned: Teresa Heitsenrether, Derek Waldron, Guy Halamish, Zachery Anderson, Troy Rohrbaugh, Lawrence Wan, Scott Marcar, Erik Brynjolfsson, Abhas Ricky, Karen Cutler, Bruce Ross, Naim Kazmi, Dave McKay, Rajesh T. Krishnamachari, PhD, Cherilyn Knaupp-Stumpner 👉 Read the latest edition of the Banking Brief: https://lnkd.in/e9FxS5Wi 📩 The Evident Banking Brief is a go-to source for data-driven insights on how banks are adopting AI. Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/eQe5mE6R

With just one week to go until we publish the results of the first edition of the Evident AI Index for Payments, here are three areas where AI is making its mark in the payments sector — and the use cases that have caught our attention: 💡 Fraud & Financial Crime Prevention: Gen AI is transforming how payments companies detect and prevent fraud. 💡 Mastercard's Decision Intelligence Pro uses generative AI to assess relationships between entities and predict transaction legitimacy. The firm is already reporting an uplift in fraud detection rates of 20% on average, with false positives down by over 85%. 2. Intelligent Payment Optimization: AI is being embedded across the payments funnel to boost conversion, cut costs, and route transactions dynamically. 💡 Worldline's AI-enabled routing solution combines machine learning with predefined rules to select optimal payment routes in real-time. Pilot merchants saw a 2% uplift in authorization rates over a preexisting rules-based solution. 3. Agentic & Conversational Commerce: Payments companies are building the rails for a new commerce model where AI agents discover, negotiate, and transact on behalf of consumers, laying the groundwork to make payments native to agentic experiences. 💡 Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol uses agent-specific cryptographic signatures to verify trusted AI agents and securely pass payment data to merchants. Built on the HTTP Message Signature standard, it solves the core infrastructure problem for providers: how do you let an AI agent pay on your behalf without opening the door to fraud? 👉 To find out more about the Index, visit: https://lnkd.in/edwebbr5 #evidentaiindex #artificialintelligence #payments #financialservices

🟠 Just Released: The Banking Brief | Europe wakes up In this week's edition: → North American banks have spent years hiring AI talent and investing billions in the technology while their European counterparts took a more measured approach. Now they’re making their move. → Goldman Sachs CIO Marco Argenti announced the bank is working with Anthropic to roll out autonomous agents for trade accounting and client onboarding. We examine what these tools actually do. → Two major court rulings in the last week just made it easier to secure AI patents. IP lawyer Brian Chau and TD Bank's Head of Patents John S. Lee break down the rulings and why banks should care. People mentioned: Slawomir Krupa, Andrea Orcel, Sergio P. Ermotti, Jean-Laurent Bonnafé, Marco Argenti, Jed Finn, Brian Chau, John S. Lee 👉 Read the latest edition of the Banking Brief: https://lnkd.in/e7SsPJhr 📩 The Evident Banking Brief is a go-to source for data-driven insights on how banks are adopting AI. Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/eKKrs6wJ

🕒 Two weeks to go: Evident AI Index | Payments The Evident AI Index is the global standard benchmark of AI maturity in financial services. For three years, we’ve tracked AI adoption across the world's largest banks and insurers. Now, we’re expanding our coverage to include one of the most technology-forward sectors in financial services—payments. On 25 February, we’ll publish our ranking of 12 major payment networks and processors across North America and Europe, revealing: → Who is setting the pace on AI—and who is falling behind → Key challenges and emerging trends in the sector → How payment providers compare to other financial services in AI adoption 📩 Sign up to receive the Key Findings Report straight to your inbox: https://lnkd.in/eHp5uK-f #evidentaiindex #artificialintelligence #payments #financialservices

🟠 Just Released: The Banking Brief | Betting the house on AI In this week's edition: → Banks are devoting more of their venture capital to AI than ever before. We explore where leading banks (Wells Fargo and Citi) have been placing their bets. → Could the new Fifth Third Bank and Comerica Bank tie up to be a model for how midsized banks advance their AI capabilities? → A surge in use cases at UBS, talent boosts at Intesa Sanpaolo - fresh data on AI adoption from European banks' Q4 earnings. People mentioned: Tim Spence, Enrique Lores, Justin Martin, Saed Shonnar, Dr Monika Sosa Smatralova, Ronald Jansen, Steve Turner, Alberto Pozanco Lancho and David Griffiths 👉 Read the latest edition of the Banking Brief: https://lnkd.in/eFs6Qrvq 📩 The Evident Banking Brief is a go-to source for data-driven insights on how banks are adopting AI. Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/e3ZWXtsD

How Block's AI agent "Goose" is saving teams 8-10 hours per week Payments giant Block built an open-source agent that autonomously connects to Snowflake, writes SQL, generates reports, and even emails them for you. 👉 We broke down how Goose works, why it's interesting, and what banks like Commonwealth Bank are doing with similar tech in the most recent edition of the Banking Brief: https://lnkd.in/ekfJyqTV 📩 Want more insights like this? The Evident Banking Brief is the go-to source for data-driven insights on how banks are adopting AI. Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/eK2PyJdT

🟠 Just Released: The Banking Brief | Bye, bye OpenAI In this week's edition: → Why the world's largest banks are moving away from OpenAI as the technology of choice → How Block's AI time-saving wingman - Goose - is saving support, legal and risk teams 8-10 hours every week according to CTO Dhanji R. Prasanna → Why some AI legends are shifting away from LLM-based agents and placing their bets on "world models" People mentioned: Dario Amodei, Sarah Friar, Fei-Fei Li, Demis Hassabis, Yann LeCun, Faraz Shafiq, Saul Van Beurden, Charles Holive, Peter P. Petrianni, Francesco Maria Delle Fave, Iain Long, Ethan Mollick and Richard Fairbank. 👉 Read the latest edition of the Banking Brief: https://lnkd.in/erz45hmv 📩 The Evident Banking Brief is a go-to source for data-driven insights on how banks are adopting AI. Subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/eQe5mE6R