Backbase launches AI software factory for banking
Backbase’s new AI factory allows lenders to build and deploy digital financing tools faster, potentially reducing friction at the merchant point of sale.
Curated by Financing Your Way from original reporting by Finextra — Lending. Summary is AI-assisted and editorially reviewed — see our editorial standards.
Backbase has launched a new AI-driven software factory designed to speed up how banks and lenders build digital tools. For retailers and service providers, this signals a major shift in how quickly your financing partners can update their apps, approval portals, and lending workflows. The platform uses specialized AI agents to handle the heavy lifting of coding and testing. This means the lag time between a merchant requesting a new feature—like a smoother checkout integration or a custom promotional financing tier—and that feature actually going live could decrease significantly. While this is a 'behind-the-scenes' technical update, the impact on your business is about agility. Lenders using this technology will be able to modernize their legacy systems faster. They can create more seamless user interfaces for your customers and fix bugs in the financing application process in real-time. As consumer financing becomes more competitive, the lenders who can deploy these AI-assisted updates will likely offer the most reliable and frictionless digital experiences for your storefront. It also suggests that the next generation of loan origination systems will be more deeply integrated with AI, potentially leading to faster credit decisions and more personalized offers for your buyers.
Source: Finextra — Lending
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