Swift’s SR 2026 delay changes the ISO 20022 roadmap. Learn what banks need to do now on structured addresses, compliance, data quality and migration.

Code generation got fast. Getting an autonomous workflow into a bank’s production control environment did not. In Banking & Financial Services (BFS), the blocker is rarely the model; it’s trust. A risk officer will not sign off on a system that cannot say why it flagged something, that does its arithmetic inside a language model, or that leaves no audit trail an examiner can open. That is exactly the gap most agentic pilots die in.
Over the last two quarters, we built a portfolio of ten BFS agentic offerings on Alti AIOS™, Altimetrik’s AI Operating System, and deployed them on two stacks: Google Cloud with Gemini and AWS with OpenAI. This piece is the architecture and design principle behind them.

Most organizations can tell you what CVEs they found last quarter. Few can tell you which packages will become a problem next month or which AI skills are running in production without a certified identity. This piece is about closing that gap.

Here is something most life sciences organizations already know but rarely say out loud: Snowflake did its job. The data lake is full. Batch records, deviation logs, CAPA histories, COA repositories, clinical trial evidence, it is all there, unified, queryable, and beautifully governed. And yet the quality director is still chasing approvals through email threads. The compliance team is still manually cross-referencing batch records against specifications before a release decision. The CAPA cycle is still measured in weeks, not hours.

Data centralization was never the finish line. It was the foundation. The question now is whether that foundation does work or just sits there.

A different approach to security modernization: prevent what you can, prioritize what matters, automate what makes sense, and prove continuously that your controls are working. Ask any CISO how the vulnerability program is going, and you’ll get the same answer: ‘We’re making progress.’ Tickets are closing. Patches are shipping. The dashboard is green. And still, […]

Introduction Merchant acquiring crossed a threshold in January 2026, when Global Payments completed its $24.25 billion acquisition of Worldpay. The combined company now serves more than 6 million merchant locations, processing $3.7 trillion in payment volume and approximately 94 billion transactions annually across more than 175 countries. That is scale on paper. Scale in production […]

A relationship manager at a regional bank has a client meeting at 10 a.m. At 9:15, she opens Financial Services Cloud (FSC) for the customer’s household relationships, logs into the core banking system for recent transactions, and finishes in the advisor portal, checking open referrals and service cases. She arrives just in time for the […]

Most institutions have already run an AI pilot in onboarding. Far fewer have anything in production. Adoption of AI tooling in KYC and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) surged from 42% in 2024 to 82% in 2025, yet onboarding queues look much the same, because a pilot that proves extraction works has not proven the process can […]

Domestic payments settle in seconds. Cross-border payments still settle in days. The gap is no longer a technology problem  it’s an engineering backlog. Here’s what closing it actually takes. Somewhere in your bank, a customer just sent a domestic payment that settled before they closed the app. The same customer’s cross-border payment possibly initiated the […]