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Techday NZ
18-07-2025
- Business
- Techday NZ
AWS unveils Bedrock AgentCore & boosts generative AI with $100 million
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced new offerings to advance the use and management of AI agents, including the introduction of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, new Marketplace solutions, and additional investment in generative AI development. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore At the centre of the update is Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, described as a comprehensive suite of services for building, deploying, and operating AI agents securely at scale. AWS states that the aim is to help organisations transition from AI agent experimentation to robust enterprise deployment, ensuring compliance with security, reliability, and governance standards. The new AgentCore platform incorporates several components. AgentCore Runtime provides secure and dynamic support for interactive and asynchronous workloads, allowing agents to operate up to eight hours, which AWS claims is the longest in the industry. Session isolation and compatibility with any framework are also highlighted features. AgentCore Memory supports both short-term and long-term memory functions for agents, aimed at enabling more context-aware responses with high accuracy. AgentCore Identity addresses authentication, allowing AI agents to securely access a range of tools and services while integrating with existing identity solutions like Amazon Cognito, Microsoft Entra ID, and Okta. AgentCore Gateway gives AI agents a means to securely discover and utilise APIs, Lambda functions, and other resources, transforming them into agent-compatible tools. Meanwhile, AgentCore Code Interpreter enables secure execution of code within sandboxed environments, offering customisability around security and computational needs. To facilitate agent interaction on the web, the AgentCore Browser Tool allows agents to navigate websites and complete forms at scale via a secure, model-agnostic cloud browser. For operational visibility, AgentCore Observability - powered by Amazon CloudWatch - provides dashboards and telemetry covering 81 metrics, supporting integration with established observability frameworks. Early adopters, including Itaú Unibanco, Innovaccer, Boomi, Epsilon, and Box, are already utilising AgentCore in developing their AI agent solutions. "It's a tectonic change in a few dimensions," said Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS VP for Agentic AI. "It upends the way software is built. It also introduces a host of new challenges to deploying and operating it, and potentially most impactfully, it changes how software interacts with the world - and how we interact with software." Marketplace expansion AWS has launched a new AI Agents and Tools category in the AWS Marketplace. This addition is intended to simplify the process for organisations seeking commercial AI agent solutions, enabling customers to discover, buy, deploy, and manage offerings from various providers through a consolidated interface. According to AWS, the Marketplace enhancements are designed to accelerate adoption by providing customers with streamlined access to professional services and pre-built tools required to build, maintain, and scale agentic systems. Generative AI investment AWS has pledged an additional $100 million to the AWS Generative AI Innovation Centre, bringing further resources to support the global push towards agentic AI systems. The centre's teams collaborate with customers and partners, focusing on productivity improvements and customer experience transformation through AI. Several AWS customers have reported practical outcomes from working with these AI offerings. Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe has developed an AI-driven solution that assists cycling commentators in rapid fact-finding. The solution utilises Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic's Claude 3.5, and over 100 AWS services. BMW has also built an AI system on AWS to streamline diagnostics for over 23 million connected vehicles. Other companies cited include Syngenta and AstraZeneca, both reporting that agentic AI has contributed to changes in their operational models. The global team supporting the Generative AI Innovation Centre comprises AI scientists, strategists, and engineers who work directly with customers to address technological challenges, especially those related to enterprise implementation and scale.
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
ITAÚ UNIBANCO - Interactive Meeting Invite 2Q2025
SíO PAULO, July 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On August 6, 2025, at 9 a.m. (EDT) and 10 a.m. (Brasília time), we will present our 2Q25 results in Portuguese and English, in an interactive meeting, with a Q&A session at the end. To take part in the interactive meeting, register at the following link: Itaú Results 2Q25 The speakers in our interactive meeting will be: Milton Maluhy – CEO, Gabriel Amado de Moura – CFO, Renato Lulia – Head of Corporate Strategy, Investor Relations and Corporate Development and Gustavo Lopes Rodrigues – IRO. Results will be published on the investor relations website on August 5, 2025, after trading hours. Follow Itaú Unibanco's latest news on our Investor Relations website. Logo - Contact:Itaú Unibanco – Comunicação CorporativaPhone: (11) 5019-8880 / 8881E-mail: imprensa@ View original content: SOURCE Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data
Forbes
19-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
How Agentic AI Is Slowly Reshaping Financial Services At Febarban Tech
Last week, I had the extraordinary honor of keynoting at Febraban Tech 2025, the largest financial services innovation conference in Latin America. Held in São Paulo's Transamerica Expo Center, the event attracted over 58,000 attendees under the theme "The Acceleration of the Financial Sector in the Age of Intelligence." The energy in the room was electric—charged with ambition, urgency, and optimism about how AI, blockchain, and governance are reshaping financial services. Before delivering my keynote, AI First, Human Always, I attended one of the most powerful sessions of the event: the opening CEO panel, featuring the leaders of Brazil's largest banks. This discussion, moderated by Febarban president Isaac Sidney, set the tone for everything that followed. These weren't cautious executives—they were bold architects of a new era for financial services. The panel featured CEOs from Brazil's largest banks: Milton Maluhy Filho (Itaú Unibanco), Tarciana Medeiros (Banco do Brasil), Marcelo Noronha (Bradesco), Mario Leão (Santander), Carlos Vieira (Caixa Econômica Federal), and Roberto Sallouti (BTG Pactual). What united their voices was a shared focus on how banks are becoming increasingly intelligent platforms that are highly connected, predictive, and sustainable. AI strategy was central to their discussions, with the CEOs addressing how the strategic use of data and algorithms is shaping new customer experiences and optimizing operations. They discussed new business models and disruptive solutions that expand access to credit and investments. The executives also emphasized their commitment to ESG goals, detailing how banks are exercising leadership in the transition to a green economy, financing sustainable projects, implementing ESG criteria, and promoting initiatives that accelerate Brazil's economic decarbonization, especially in the context of COP 30. According to the president of Febraban, Isaac Sidney, "Artificial Intelligence is profoundly reshaping the banking sector across the entire value chain — from back-office to customer experience. This convergence allows for credit decisions with greater precision and speed, raises real-time fraud detection standards, drives hyper-personalization of products and services, and optimizes critical operational processes, freeing up human capital for strategic initiatives. At the same time, AI strengthens data governance and regulatory compliance, ensuring that innovation and security go hand in hand. Therefore, it is a structural transformation that repositions banks as intelligent digital platforms, capable of anticipating needs, generating sustainable value, and fostering financial inclusion at scale." Brazil's banks plan to invest R$ 47.8 billion in technology in 2025 alone, a 13% increase from the previous year. This isn't incremental—it's systemic transformation of the financial sector. As I took the stage to deliver the keynote that followed, I was deeply aware of the moment. My talk focused on what it truly means to lead an AI-first organization—and how to do so responsibly. AI is not just a set of tools or models. It's a mindset. And in financial services, it requires precision, ethics, and bold leadership. Banco do Brasil exemplifies this approach. Their 2021 AI Ethics Guidelines (that's right from 2021!) prioritize fairness, transparency, and privacy across the entire AI lifecycle. Most impressively, this isn't confined to compliance—it's embedded across business units with quarterly ethics reviews, mandatory bias testing, and real-time monitoring dashboards. Blockchain-based audit trails ensure every AI decision can be traced and validated. Itaú Unibanco has established AI governance committees at board and operational levels, implementing "AI impact assessments" that evaluate societal effects before production deployment. Their framework requires human oversight for high-stakes decisions like loan approvals above certain thresholds. This kind of approach stood in contrast to what I've seen in other regions, where AI governance is often bolted on after-the-fact. In Latin America, responsible AI is increasingly seen as a strategic differentiator. Governance must move from the margins to the center of every AI-first initiative. What makes Latin America so uniquely positioned to lead the next wave of innovation? Four reasons stood out in every session I attended. First, Latin America is skipping the transformation phase. While banks elsewhere struggle to retrofit AI into decades-old systems, the region's institutions are building AI-native from a clean slate—fewer legacy constraints, more openness to disruption. Second, blockchain isn't an afterthought—it's foundational. While Brazilian bank CEOs focused their main panel on AI and sustainability, blockchain commanded dedicated sessions. MIT Technology Review's CEO positioned it alongside AI as today's most impactful trend. FEBRABAN featured live tokenization demos and an entire track on "on-chain and the next step of digital assets." Third, the human element is central. Latin America's emphasis on community, trust, and relationship-building makes the region a natural fit for human-centered AI. The phrase "AI First, Human Always" isn't just a strategy here—it's a reflection of cultural values. Finally, the region is mobile-first, and by extension, agent-first. With some of the highest smartphone adoption rates globally, Latin American users are already engaging in digital ecosystems. As AI agents begin coordinating across financial products—handling transactions, customer support, and advisory—consumers here are ready for it. In many ways, they're already living in the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) economy. I saw this readiness in discussions with CIOs from Itaú, Bradesco, Banco do Brasil, BTG Pactual, and Caixa. They spoke not only of deploying GenAI tools, but of operationalizing AI agents across internal teams and customer-facing services, all supported by blockchain-verified identity and transaction systems. JP Morgan stood out as a global reference point. Their AI models detect fraud in real-time, reducing false positives by 50%. Katana Lens integrates over 800 data sources and uses 50+ machine learning models, resulting in 42% improvement in early detection. Latin America is setting its own examples. Itaú Unibanco launched its "Inteligência de Investimentos Itaú", using generative AI to provide personalized investment recommendations to clients, initially available to 10,000 customers with plans to expand to 500,000 by year-end. The bank operates over 1,000 AI models and employs more than 430 data scientists and 60 machine learning engineers. BTG Pactual partnered with Feedzai to implement AI-powered financial crime monitoring, including advanced machine learning for transaction monitoring and Pix payment system oversight. In speaking to João Marcello Dantas Leite, an Executive Officer at BTG Pactual. He told me that 'FebrabanTech 2025 hosted a series of provocative debates about the role AI will play in the financial space. With 58,000 visitors, 500 speakers and 200 panels, this was the event's 35th edition, and this time it focused on how AI will be an accelerator of the financial sector development." The bank has also moved into digital assets, launching its own dollar-backed stablecoin "BTG Dol" and operating a crypto platform for direct cryptocurrency investments. BTG leverages blockchain technology through initiatives like ReitBZ, which uses digital asset tokens to provide global investors access to Brazilian real estate opportunities. As I closed my session and spent time walking the exhibition floor, meeting entrepreneurs, data scientists, and bank executives, one message kept echoing: Latin America isn't following global trends—it's helping define them. Febraban Tech 2025 confirmed for me that we're entering a new chapter of financial services, one led by institutions that are bold enough to act, transparent enough to earn trust, and visionary enough to build AI for people—not just for performance. The journey from São Paulo has just begun. Latin America isn't following global trends—it's defining them. Financial services leaders: The question isn't whether to embrace AI-first thinking, but how quickly you can implement governance frameworks that build trust. Start with ethics, build on blockchain infrastructure, never lose sight of human impact. Technology executives: Study how blockchain and AI integration creates competitive advantage. Leading institutions aren't just adopting these technologies—they're architecting them together from the ground up. The question is: Will you be watching from the sidelines, or building the future? Did you enjoy this story Agentic AI In Financial Services? Don't miss my next one: Use the blue follow button at the top of the article near my byline to follow more of my work.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
ITAÚ UNIBANCO - ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE MARKET: 1Q25 RESULTS
SíO PAULO, May 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A. announces to its shareholders and to the market that the Condensed Financial Statements and the Management Discussion and Analysis for the 1st quarter of 2025, ending March 31, 2025, are already available on the Investor Relations website. Interactive meeting on the results will be held on Friday, May 09 at 09:00 a.m. (EDT). Access the link to register: For further information, access Investor Relations website: Gustavo Lopes RodriguesInvestor Relations Officer Contact:Itaú Unibanco – Comunicação Corporativa(11) 5019-8880 / 8881imprensa@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Itaú Unibanco Holding S.A. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Malaysian Reserve
30-04-2025
- Business
- Malaysian Reserve
Interactive Meeting Invite 1Q2025
SíO PAULO, April 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On May 9, 2025, at 9 a.m. (EDT) and 10 a.m. (Brasília time), we will present our 1Q25 results in Portuguese and English, in an interactive meeting, with a Q&A session at the end. To take part in the interactive meeting, register at the following link: Itaú Results 1Q25 The participants in our interactive meeting will be: Milton Maluhy – CEO, Gabriel Amado de Moura – CFO, Renato Lulia – Head of Corporate Strategy, Investor Relations and Corporate Development and Gustavo Lopes Rodrigues – IRO. Results will be published on the investor relations website on May 8, 2025, after trading hours. Follow Itaú Unibanco's latest news on our Investor Relations website. Contact: Itaú Unibanco – Comunicação CorporativaPhone: (11) 5019-8880 / 8881E-mail: imprensa@ View original content:
