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Axis Bank Cognizant AMS 2.0: A Five-Year Deal Announced Without a Single Number
A five-year, seven-vertical application management deal announced with no value, no metrics and no AI claims — from an AI-positioned vendor and one of India’s most AI-forward banks.
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Revolut Hackers Demand 10,000 Bitcoin: Inside the Government-Email Scam That Exposed 680 Customer Dossiers
Revolut handed 680 customers’ passports, selfies, and full Bitcoin histories to criminals who emailed it from a genuine government domain — then demanded 10,000 BTC. The verified timeline, the EDR fraud epidemic behind it, and why the ransom amount is theater.
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Zoho Enterprise CRM Wins Motilal Oswal: A Talisma Displacement in a Salesforce-Dominated Market
Zoho’s deployment at Motilal Oswal looks like a straightforward CRM win, but it replaces a Talisma system the press release never names—and lands in a market where Salesforce is aggressively pursuing the same BFSI customers with AI agents.
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Abacus AI3 Initiative: A Governance-First AI Pitch From a Post-Merger MSP
Abacus AI3 promises governance-first AI adoption for healthcare and financial services firms. The partnerships are unnamed in nature, the dozen Claude deployments are modest in scale, and the release omits the merger that created the firm.
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Avalara E-Invoicing Leadership: What the IDC Ranking Doesn’t Tell You
Avalara has been positioned as a Leader in IDC’s Worldwide E-Invoicing Compliance Solutions 2026 assessment. The release names no other vendor, the AI claims are new packaging, and the mandate wave driving this market is only beginning.
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Finarkein Account Aggregator Report: When a Vendor’s Own Data Becomes Industry Analysis
Finarkein’s GFF 2026 report on India’s AA ecosystem proposes a 23-factor framework for AI accountability. The data is drawn from its own platform — raising questions about what is industry analysis and what is vendor positioning.
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DCB Bank WrkTalk Deployment: Real Quantum Leap or On-Prem Repackaging?
DCB Bank says it is the first Indian bank to deploy WrkTalk enterprise-wide on its own infrastructure, with post-quantum cryptography. The framing is timely, but several claims deserve a closer look.
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PayU Fraud Liability Protect: An Established Global Category, Now Bundled for Indian Merchants
PayU’s Fraud Liability Protect bundles AI risk scoring, risk-based authentication, and chargeback liability coverage for Indian merchants. But “eligible” chargebacks is undefined, pricing is absent, and Signifyd and Forter have run this model for years.
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CloudTV thunderOS: India’s “Homegrown” Smart TV OS Is Android Underneath
CloudTV’s thunderOS is not a ground-up “homegrown” OS — it is a CTS-certified Android layer. Here is what that means for buyers and OEMs.
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DBS MAX Payment Orchestration: DBS and Juspay’s Bank-Led Play, With Key Gaps Unanswered
DBS Bank India’s Juspay-backed DBS MAX expansion puts a bank in the orchestration seat — but names no payment aggregators and offers no pricing.