1092. News: Finally, the robots take over: Starling gets smarter, Stripe buys OpenRouter, and Visa and Mastercard unite on agentic payments

Host Laura Watkins - Director of Media and Marketing at 11:FS - is joined by some great guests to discuss the biggest stories from the world of financial services over the past week.

This week's guests:

David Sullivan - Data Director of Starling 

Stefano Pasquali - Head of Financial Services at Domyn

Aditi Subbarao - Financial Services for Snowflake

Stories/timestamps:

Starling to release weekly ‘Smart tools’ that supercharge money management - (03:19)

Stripe agrees $7bn takeover of AI firm OpenRouter - (17:37)

Visa and Mastercard back new Agentic Payments Alliance - (29:38)

Seoul’s financial watchdog targets AI hallucinations - (45:41)

Is £173k government spent on influencers good value? - (48:01)

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