Lloyds Buries Halifax After 173 Years as Envoy AI Reshapes Fraud Defence
Lloyds Banking Group retires the 173-year-old Halifax brand and deploys agentic AI platform Envoy, having blocked over £1bn in fraud during 2025.
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Lloyds Banking Group retires the 173-year-old Halifax brand and deploys agentic AI platform Envoy, having blocked over £1bn in fraud during 2025.
HSBC joins the Emerging Payments Association Asia to co-found an APAC working group setting standards for AI agent-initiated payments amid rising liability and fraud risks.
Accenture partners with the European Commission's DG INTPA to roll out a specialized AI assistant serving thousands of staff across more than 100 countries.
Financial regulators are now asking whether artificial intelligence poses the biggest systemic threat to banking since the global financial crisis — a warning that can no longer be dismissed.
Deloitte launches an AI-powered vulnerability remediation platform built on Anthropic's Claude models, targeting the growing gap between threat detection and effective software fixes.
Tsinghua University's DISH technology can print 3D optical structures in just 0.6 seconds, slashing production times from hours and potentially reshaping photonic chip supply chains for AI and crypto.
Apple has surpassed Nvidia to become the world's most valuable company, reaching a $4.88 trillion market capitalization amid a broader shift in AI market sentiment.
Samsung unveils its Gemini AI-powered Android XR smart glasses at Galaxy Unpacked in London on July 22, targeting Meta's dominance in the wearable eyewear market.
Cloudflare data reveals bots now generate 57.4% of all web traffic, a watershed moment with profound consequences for crypto markets and blockchain infrastructure.
SK Hynix has overtaken Samsung as South Korea's most valuable company at $1.35T, fueling sharp KOSPI volatility as AI chip demand rewrites market hierarchies.
Meta is reportedly in talks to lease computing power to Anthropic in a deal worth up to $10 billion over two years, signaling a new frontier in AI infrastructure monetization.
Bank of America appoints Sonali Theisen and Kevin Milsom to spearhead its digital assets and AI transformation, marking a decisive bet on tokenized finance.