AI x Fintech Weekly — 2026-03-12

Signals this week

• Agents & tooling (2) — Santander tests agentic payments across Latin America; Deep Dive: How Fintech Block Is Replacing Processes and People with Agents
• Model eval & reliability (1) — TOSSS: a CVE-based Software Security Benchmark for Large Language Models
• Payments & rails (5) — Santander tests agentic payments across Latin America; The Payments Landscape in 2026: How to leverage back-office readiness through AI; Payments connectivity in the ISO 20022 era: A case study in future-proofing
• Risk & compliance (1) — Beyond connectivity and ISO 20022 compliance: How to reduce TCO and unlock value
• Inference & efficiency (1) — BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs

Top links (curated)

• Santander tests agentic payments across Latin America (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/47430/santander-tests-agentic-payments-across-latin-america
• The Payments Landscape in 2026: How to leverage back-office readiness through AI (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/event-info/607/the-payments-landscape-in-2026-how-to-leverage-back-office-readiness-through-ai
• Deep Dive: How Fintech Block Is Replacing Processes and People with Agents (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/31035/deep-dive-how-fintech-block-is-replacing-processes-and-people-with-agents
• Payments connectivity in the ISO 20022 era: A case study in future-proofing (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/event-info/606/payments-connectivity-in-the-iso-20022-era-a-case-study-in-future-proofing
• Mastercard weighs in on European payments sovereignty debate (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/47422/mastercard-weighs-in-on-european-payments-sovereignty-debate
• BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs (Hacker News) — https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet
• TOSSS: a CVE-based Software Security Benchmark for Large Language Models (arXiv cs.LG) — https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10969v1
• Fact or fiction: Exploring the reality of AI in payments testing (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/event-info/611/fact-or-fiction-exploring-the-reality-of-ai-in-payments-testing
• Beyond connectivity and ISO 20022 compliance: How to reduce TCO and unlock value (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/event-info/609/beyond-connectivity-and-iso-20022-compliance-how-to-reduce-tco-and-unlock-value
• Commercial banking in transition: What are the key opportunities in 2026? (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/event-info/604/commercial-banking-in-transition-what-are-the-key-opportunities-in-2026