Yearly Archives: 2026

HSBC, ANT Test Tokenized Deposits Via Swift

[ad_1] Banking giant HSBC and Singapore-based Ant International successfully connected Ant’s blockchain infrastructure to Swift’s network between HSBC Singapore and Hong Kong via HSBC’s tokenized deposit services. It enabled real-time cross-border treasury management. The test was the first example of leveraging the Swift network and ISO 20022 messaging standard. Using …

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Costa Rica: Regional Dynamo | Global Finance Magazine

[ad_1] Costa Rica has harnessed “Pura Vida” or pure life to more traditional industries, such as agriculture and tourism, and has been one of Central America’s success stories in recent years thanks to an export-driven economy based on medical technology and services. But GDP growth is projected by the World …

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AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial ‘nervous system’

[ad_1] Industrial AI startup CVector built a brain and nervous system for big industry. Now, founders Richard Zhang and Tyler Ruggles are tasked with a bigger challenge: showing customers and investors how this AI-powered software layer translates to real savings on an industrial scale.  The New York-based startup has had …

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AI In Finance: The Power Of Agency

[ad_1] A new wave of agentic AI systems is reshaping banking operations. Unlike typical large language model (LLM) applications that answer prompts, agentic systems execute sequences of actions: querying systems, retrieving documents, transforming data, and producing outputs. Quietly, these autonomous tools are beginning to redefine the banking technology landscape. The …

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