The world ships
hundreds of AI stories
a day. Most don't
matter to banking.

The problem

If you run a business unit, a technology function, or a risk team at a bank or fintech firm, you already know what it feels like. Your inbox is a flood. Your LinkedIn feed is a fire hose. Every vendor, every analyst, every newsletter is screaming about AI — and somehow, by 9am, you're already three meetings deep without a clear picture of what actually moved overnight.

The AI news cycle has become genuinely brutal. On a busy day, hundreds of stories break across industry blogs, financial press, research labs, regulator sites, and social media. The vast majority are noise — funding announcements for consumer apps, data center capacity debates, model benchmark wars that have no bearing on whether your fraud detection system needs rethinking by Q3.

But buried inside that avalanche? There's a Fed guidance note on AI model risk. A major EU bank quietly deployed an AI underwriting system that cut decisioning time by 40%. A fintech you've been watching raised a Series C to go after your SMB lending book. Those stories exist. They're just very hard to find before your first meeting.

Who BankingNewsAI is for

VPs. SVPs. Chiefs. People whose mornings are already scheduled before they wake up.

You're not a developer. You're not building models. But you are responsible — for decisions, for strategy, for a team that keeps asking whether the bank is moving fast enough on AI. You need to be conversant, not expert. Informed, not overwhelmed.

The executive in wealth management who needs to understand what large language models mean for client advisory services. The Chief Risk Officer who needs to know which regulators are moving on algorithmic decision-making — and how fast. The Head of Payments who wants to know what Visa, Mastercard, and the neobanks are actually shipping, not what they're announcing in press releases.

BankingNewsAI was built for that person. For the five minutes between getting your coffee and your 8am call where you want to feel genuinely caught up — not just scrolled.

What BankingNewsAI does

Every morning, BankingNewsAI scans 20+ sources — Banking Dive, Finextra, Tearsheet, PYMNTS, Fintech Futures, Crowdfund Insider, and the curated AI industry newsletter from smol.ai, among others. An AI model trained for this specific task reads through every item, strips out the paywalled teasers that give you a headline and a wall, removes the consumer tech stories that have no bearing on financial services, and surfaces what's actually worth your time.

The result lands in your inbox as two sections. Banking AI covers AI developments with a direct, explicit connection to your world — real institutions, named regulators, specific financial products. No tenuous links, no "this could someday affect banks" speculation. General AIcovers the broader AI landscape: model releases, capability shifts, enterprise adoption trends — the developments significant enough that a banking executive would feel behind on if they missed them.

Each story comes with a concise summary and a specific, actionable implication — written for someone who reads it standing up, between meetings. Not for someone with 20 minutes to spare.

Our philosophy

We have one strong belief: less is worth more, if the less is actually right.A digest that gives you six stories you can act on is infinitely more valuable than fifty that clog your thinking and make you feel busy without making you better informed.

We hard-filter paywalled content. If you can't read the article, it shouldn't be in your brief. We reject opinion pieces with no new data. We skip the Anthropic vs. OpenAI funding round coverage unless there's a direct banking angle — because those stories, while interesting, are not the ones that change what you do on Monday morning.

BankingNewsAI is free. It takes under five minutes to read. And the goal — every single day — is to make sure that when someone in your next meeting references an AI development in financial services, you already know exactly what they're talking about.