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credit unions
+3
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Aug 21, 2026
Plus: Stripe's model gateway, payments foundation models, a lending agent, and agents with their own company cards.
community banks
+9
Aug 14, 2026
Plus: agents opening accounts, compliance priced per case, and six runs that got outside.
+6
Aug 6, 2026
Plus: 12,500 banker hours saved in a month, appraisal review time down 70%, and coding agents that share their suffering.
compliance
+7
Jul 30, 2026
Plus: a credit union checked every indirect auto loan file, bad links make secret agents, and the flowchart for every AI crisis.
+8
Jul 23, 2026
Plus: Fiserv joins the group governing an agent-payment standard, HSBC tests a live AI purchase, and Visa builds an assistant for bank apps.
model risk
Jul 16, 2026
Plus: bunq rebuilt its assistant three times before reaching 97% of interactions and Blend took mortgage pre-underwriting live.
agentic commerce
Jul 8, 2026
Plus: AI agents went live buying from stores, and bank AI bills keep climbing.
open source
+10
Jun 30, 2026
Plus: agents moving from scoring the loan to making the call, and a malicious AI tool that cleared review and reached 26,000 users.
Jun 24, 2026
Plus: Lloyds aims AI agents at the moment of payment, an $88-a-week kit that clones trusted-brand sites, and Santander open-sources its AI guardrails.
Jun 17, 2026
Plus: an AI agent bought the concert tickets, the government switched off Anthropic's three-day-old model, and regulators started asking about AI in exams.
