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February 18, 2026
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From bottlenecks to breakthroughs: How agentic AI is reshaping insurance 

Agentic AI is transforming insurance operations, from claims and underwriting to risk and service, enabling measurable efficiency, growth, and customer impact.

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Global banks join Efma, Microsoft and Avanade to recognize fintech solution award winners at the 2016 Efma Distribution Summit 

Efma, Microsoft and Avanade are working together with some of the world’s largest financial institutions to launch a new Fintech portal, www.efma.com/fintech, to connect the rapidly expanding fintech community with retail banks and insurance firms globally. Today at the Efma Distribution Summit in London, Efma announced the fintech solution winners, based on entries within the portal, and selected by a committee of senior banking and insurance executives. The committee selected best-in-class fintech solutions within the following categories: Business Banking; Distribution and Marketing; Insurance; and PFM-Payments.

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Azure Blockchain as a Service update #7 

Azure's Blockchain as a Service continues to grow at a very rapid pace. In order to consolidate all of the various partner offerings and make them more easily discoverable for the most common uses, there are now going to be three main places where these assets can be found: •Certified Marketplace •Template library •DevTest labs •Artifact repo. Also- This week Microsoft welcomes: Algorythmix, Expanse, Influx, Monero, Radium and Tendermint.

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Microsoft Envision: Breakthrough business insights in financial services 

Global digitization combined with unprecedented changes to the financial services business model is mandating transformation. What’s your plan for digital transformation? How will you transform and perform in this new environment, satisfying clients and shareholders alike? Join us at Microsoft Envision from April 4-6, 2016 in New Orleans.

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Azure Blockchain as a Service Update #6 

Its getting hard to keep saying blockchain for everything in this space, so I'll just start referring to it as the distributed ledger ecosystem. Azure Blockchain as a Service has become a very diverse ecosystem hosting a wide variety of technologies. Open, is perhaps what best describes the current environment: A place for partners to put new platforms, frameworks, tools and services for curious customers to discover and experiment with.

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Azure Blockchain as a Service Update #5 

STRATO Azure’s Blockchain as a Service welcomes its first certified offering from Blockapps: STRATO. The STRATO offering is a single-node blockchain instance, which acts as a developer sandbox for testing Ethereum blockchain applications and offers the STRATO RESTful API for connecting applications to private, semi-private (consortium) and public Ethereum blockchains.

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A Worldwide Standard 

We hear from BIAN’s Hans Tesselaar about the progress the banking standards association is making to develop the most complete banking industry framework.