AppZen, a leading Agentic AI platform for finance teams, has raised $180 million in growth funding, led by Riverwood Capital, a tech-focused investment firm. The Series D round will accelerate the adoption of AI-powered finance automation, enabling enterprises to convert manual workflows into autonomous digital coworkers.
LSEG and Databricks have teamed up to bring LSEG’s vast financial datasets directly into Databricks, making them instantly accessible for AI-driven investment analytics, risk management, and trading workflows. The partnership launches with Lipper Fund Data & Analytics and Cross Asset Analytics, with additional datasets—Pricing, Reference Data, Models (Starmine), Fundamentals, Estimates, Economics, and Tick History—coming soon.
GFT Technologies has unveiled a generative AI-powered credit risk assistant designed to speed lending decisions for private capital firms and banks in the U.S. The tool automates the creation of comprehensive credit reports, reducing timelines from hours or days to mere minutes, while ensuring compliance and accuracy.
Subotiz, an AI-powered growth and payments platform for subscription-based digital businesses, made its regional debut at Money20/20 Middle East 2025 in Riyadh. The event, held from September 15 to 17 at the Riyadh Exhibition and Convention Centre, is the region’s leading fintech gathering, attracting over 450 brands, 350 speakers, and 600 investors.
Belgian AI startup Eagl has raised €825,000 in funding to expand its engineering team, scale operations across Europe, and accelerate development of its AI-native financial agent platform. The platform integrates directly with ERP and accounting systems, automating workflows, continuously monitoring data quality, and resolving anomalies in real time, giving finance teams faster, cleaner, and more accurate insights.
Shift Technology Launches Agentic AI Solution to Transform Insurance Claims
Trading bots are nothing new. But most of them still feel like glorified spreadsheets—rule-bound, rigid, and often too slow for today’s volatile markets. Enter AI Trade, a platform that’s positioning itself less as a tool and more as a trading infrastructure powered by “Agentic AI”—software that doesn’t just follow commands, it makes decisions.
Majesco, a longtime player in insurance tech, wants insurers to know it’s not dabbling in artificial intelligence—it’s going all in. The company is showcasing its latest AI-driven policy, quote, and billing solutions this week at Celent’s GenAI Symposium in Chicago, a gathering ground for financial services firms trying to separate AI hype from actual utility.
Shift Technology, a global provider of AI-driven decision automation for insurance, has deployed generative AI (Gen AI) capabilities in its Shift Claims Fraud Detection and Shift Claims Intake platforms for Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. The move introduces advanced visual intelligence that improves image and document analysis, helping insurers extract critical information from both structured and unstructured data.
