AI x Fintech Weekly — 2026-05-21

Signals this week

• Payments & rails (6) — Balancing Merchant and Customer Risk: Managing Fraud in POS Payments; Zip and InComm Payments bring instalments to the gift card market; Fact or fiction: Exploring the reality of AI in payments testing
• Risk & compliance (1) — Balancing Merchant and Customer Risk: Managing Fraud in POS Payments

Top links (curated)

• Balancing Merchant and Customer Risk: Managing Fraud in POS Payments (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/3493/balancing-merchant-and-customer-risk-managing-fraud-in-pos-payments
• Zip and InComm Payments bring instalments to the gift card market (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/109912/zip-and-incomm-payments-bring-instalments-to-the-gift-card-market
• AI, HR and financial services: Modernising banking systems from front to back (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/event-info/619/ai-hr-and-financial-services-modernising-banking-systems-from-front-to-back
• Digital sovereignty: The key deliverable of banking transformation (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/event-info/616/digital-sovereignty-the-key-deliverable-of-banking-transformation
• 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
• SBS bids to replace teller systems with tablet-based branch banking platform (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/109920/sbs-bids-to-replace-teller-systems-with-tablet-based-branch-banking-platform
• Innovation Outpaces Standards as Interoperability in Fleet Mobility Payments Becomes Essential (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/31786/innovation-outpaces-standards-as-interoperability-in-fleet-mobility-payments-becomes-essential
• Trump asks Fed to explore giving fintechs access to payment rails (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/47789/trump-asks-fed-to-explore-giving-fintechs-access-to-payment-rails
• How the Postal Service Helps Inclusive Banking in Rural Areas (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/videoarticle/3503/how-the-postal-service-helps-inclusive-banking-in-rural-areas
• Santander’s Getnet highlights ‘invisible’ payments as strategic growth driver (Finextra) — https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/47782/santanders-getnet-highlights-invisible-payments-as-strategic-growth-driver