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Articles by Karen Mcdermott

Senior product marketing manager, Financial Services

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Money20/20 USA 2025: Fintech’s inflection point has arrived

From AI-powered insight to stablecoin innovation, Money20/20 USA 2025 showed that fintech’s future is built on unified data, real-time intelligence, and the infrastructure of trust.

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Elastic at Money20/20 USA 2025: Powering the next era of financial services

Elastic is attending Money20/20 USA to showcase how financial institutions can fight fraud, strengthen compliance, and gain real-time visibility into data. Visit our booth #21092 to learn more.

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The rise of intelligent banking: Unifying fraud, security, and compliance in the era of AI

Banks face growing threats and rising expectations. Discover how unifying observability, security, and fraud prevention enables smarter decisions and stronger defenses.

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Agentic AI in financial services: The rise of autonomous intelligence

While agentic AI is still emerging for many, Elastic is powering it now — fueling autonomous workflows in fraud prevention, regulatory compliance, and cybersecurity across financial services.

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Powering the future of financial services with AI-driven intelligence

Discover how financial institutions can unlock AI’s full potential with retrieval augmented generation (RAG), vector search, and Better Binary Quantization — delivering smarter insights, cost efficiency, and real-time decision-making at scale.

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Logging compliance and cost containment in financial services

Discover how Elastic Cloud and Elasticsearch logsdb index mode help financial institutions optimize data retention, ensure compliance with regulations, and reduce costs with efficient storage solutions.

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Getting it right with GenAI in financial services: Where to focus in 2025

GenAI and RAG are transforming financial services by enhancing security, detecting fraud, and improving observability. These AI tools enable real-time insights, proactive defenses, and better decision-making to stay innovative and competitive.

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AI-powered fraud detection: Protecting financial services with Elastic

Discover how Elastic uses AI and ML to revolutionize fraud detection in financial services. From real-time anomaly detection to predictive analytics, learn how institutions can combat fraud, ensure compliance, and enhance trust with our solutions.

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Transform financial services with AI: Unlock growth, innovation, and insights

The secret to solving business challenges in financial services? Data-fueled AI. We interviewed and surveyed 158 financial services IT leaders to discover what it takes to drive an intelligent AI strategy.