Financial firms

News on software quality engineering and testing at banks, capital markets firms and insurance companies.

Inside banking’s shift to smarter QA to tackle complexity and risk

Do banks need to shift to streamlined, automated, and intelligence-driven testing?...

Banks push beyond traditional QA as resilience testing gains ground

Traditional testing approaches, built around modern apps, are struggling to keep pace...

Banking QA professionals warn AI still doesn’t know ‘where the bodies are buried’

Susan Barrows of First Citizens Bank warns 'fast does not always mean better'...

RECAP: The QA Financial Healthcare & Insurance Forum Philadelphia 2026

Engineering, QA and tech leaders from across healthcare, insurance and life sciences gathered...

AI coding boom risks ‘plausible but broken’ systems, warns QA Sphere chief

Andrian Budantsov explains how and why AI-generated code is rapidly reshaping software testing...

AI becomes the banker: Decision-making and the new testing burden

The third part in this series pushes AI to the edge of banks' decision-making...

ANZ’s AI power play puts QA centre stage with HSBC poach

The entirely new role signals a deeper push into AI-led testing and software resilience...

OpenClaw panic forces Chinese banks into new AI governance and testing phase

Banks move from AI experimentation to controlled deployment as China tightens oversight...

AI becomes the banker: The rapid rise of automated testing across finance

Part II of this QA Financial series on AI in banking focuses on automation and related risks...

AI becomes the banker: how deployments are reshaping banking QA

A QA Financial series on the use of AI in banking and related testing challenges...
The HQ of Barclays in Canary Wharf, London

AI-driven CRM puts banks’ testing strategies under pressure

Many banks see their software systems evolve into autonomous decision engines...

Banks run into major QA risks as AI code hallucinations spread

Hallucinations, hidden vulnerabilities and 'mirror tests' are reshaping how banks define quality...