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Experian Fast Track credit pre-approval tool targets last-minute rejections
Experian announced its Fast Track credit pre-approval product on 16 September 2026, positioning it as a fix for one of the more persistent irritants in consumer lending: the pre-approved offer that unravels during final checks. The company says Fast Track draws on Open Banking data and what it describes as advanced affordability information to carry out more verification work before…
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Personetics Open Finance AI push: context over campaigns, guardrails over guesswork
Personetics is making a pointed claim about where Personetics Open Finance AI sits in the banking stack: not as plumbing, but as the layer that turns connected data into something a bank can actually use to deepen a customer relationship. The company’s chief marketing officer, Alison Lindland, laid out that position ahead of Open Banking Expo UK & Europe 2026,…
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RSO-021 mesothelioma trial results show 67% disease control in phase one study
An experimental drug called RSO-021 produced encouraging RSO-021 mesothelioma trial results in a phase one study, controlling disease progression in 67% of participants and suggesting that deliberately overloading cancer cells with oxidative stress may be a viable treatment strategy. The findings, published in Nature Communications by researchers at the University of Vermont (UVM) and an international team of collaborators, describe…
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Rochester’s solar desalination brine-free system recovers lithium from seawater
A solar desalination brine-free system developed at the University of Rochester claims to produce fresh water from seawater while extracting nearly all dissolved salts as a solid rather than discharging concentrated liquid brine, and, in a separate related study, to recover roughly 50 per cent of the lithium contained in those leftover salts. The research, published across two journals, is…
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Personetics Banking Console launch targets the relationship manager’s blind spot
The Personetics Banking Console launch, which took place on 15 September 2026, puts the company’s AI-driven customer intelligence directly into the daily workflow of bank relationship managers, a channel it says has, until now, been left out of the loop. The product overlays behavioural signals, primacy indicators and financial data onto the customer relationship management (CRM) systems banks already use,…
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Chift Series A funding of €10.5m targets pan-European financial connectivity push
Brussels-based Chift has closed a Chift Series A funding round of €10.5 million, led by BlackFin Capital Partners, as the company sets its sights on scaling across Spain, the UK, the Nordics, Germany and Italy. Existing investors Entourage, Shapers, Seeder Fund and Wallonie Entreprendre also participated. The company describes its core problem as “the defining problem of European SMB finance”:…
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Diet biological age reversal signals seen in four weeks, Sydney study finds
A small dietary trial has produced what its authors call an early signal of diet biological age reversal, with three of four eating plans producing measurable shifts in ageing biomarkers among older Australians after just four weeks. The findings, published in Aging Cell, come with clear caveats from the researchers themselves: the effects are preliminary, the study was short, and…
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Hunga Tonga methane destruction detected from space, study finds
A study published in Nature Communications has found evidence of Hunga Tonga methane destruction on a scale researchers had not previously observed, with satellite instruments tracking the chemistry continuously for more than ten days after the January 2022 eruption. The finding matters because it suggests volcanic ash can accelerate the breakdown of a potent greenhouse gas, and because it raises…
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Worldline UCP payment handler goes live for agentic commerce
The Worldline UCP payment handler, launched on 15 September 2026, is the company’s bid to position itself among the first European payment firms to support the Universal Commerce Protocol, an open standard designed to let AI agents discover products and execute purchases directly on behalf of consumers. The claim is straightforward: merchants connect once, and the handler takes care of…
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Ancient plague Lake Baikal findings push disease’s deadly history back 5,500 years
Ancient plague at Lake Baikal was already killing hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago, long before medieval cities, rat populations and flea-borne transmission became the defining features of the disease, according to research published in Nature. The study, drawing on ancient DNA recovered from human remains at four burial sites in East Siberia, challenges a longstanding assumption that the earliest forms of…
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