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Michiel Willems

Barcelona, London, Nairobi

Managing Editor at QA-Financial.com

News Editor at Yahoo News

Full-blooded real-time newshound. Chief editor of @QA_financial and news editor at @YahooNews. Previously at @Netzeroinvestor, @Cityam, @spglobal and @CNNnews18

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  • 1 week ago | qa-financial.com | Michiel Willems

    Automation testing firm Xceptor and OnCorps AI, a provider of AI tools specialised in financial operations, have struck a partnership aimed at enhancing automation in the financial services industry. The collaboration will combine Xceptor’s technology with OnCorps’ AI-driven analytics and exception management tools. More specifically, they two firms plan to integrate Xceptor’s intelligent data automation capabilities with OnCorps AI’s machine learning algorithms and AI agents.

  • 1 week ago | qa-financial.com | Michiel Willems

    Ahead of the QA Financial & E-Commerce Forum New York 2025, taking place next month in the Big Apple, we sit down with one of the conference’s key speakers, Nicole Nunziata, the director of TechOps at Varo Bank. Nunziata is charged with maintaining the platform supporting Varo’s banking application, corporate IT and developer tooling. A critical part of this work is creating the testing framework used by all engineers.

  • 1 week ago | qa-financial.com | Michiel Willems

    OpenAI has kicked off ambitious plans to develop an artificial intelligence agent that is aimed at replacing software engineers entirely, the company’s chief financial officer revealed this week at a major technology conference in London. Speaking at Goldman Sachs’ Disruptive Technology Symposium, CFO Sarah Friar said the new system, known internally as A-SWE, or Agentic Software Engineer, is designed not just to assist human coders.

  • 1 week ago | qa-financial.com | Michiel Willems

    Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly transforming the banking and financial services industry, offering unprecedented opportunities for automation, efficiency, and innovation. However, its integration into software testing processes in the finance sector presents significant risks that must be carefully managed, according to several industry insiders.

  • 1 week ago | qa-financial.com | Michiel Willems

    NYSE-listed automation and AI software company UiPath said it has launched a new platform called UiPath Test Cloud, calling it “a new approach to software testing that uses AI to amplify tester productivity across the testing lifecycle, designed for efficiencies and cost savings.” Gerd Weishaar, general manager and senior vice president of testing products at UiPath, said the solution enables quality assurance to use agentic testing, equipping professionals with AI agents such as an autopilot...

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Michiel Willems
Michiel Willems @NewsFromMichiel
3 Mar 25

Buenas tardes from Spain, where MWC Barcelona has kicked off, uniting the world's movers & shakers in tech, telecoms and innovation, with AI and robotics taking centre stage this year Also in Barcelona and fancy meeting? Simply DM and/or [email protected]. #MWC2025 #MWC https://t.co/luxoNVWZXQ

Michiel Willems
Michiel Willems @NewsFromMichiel
28 Feb 25

Is this the beginning of a global trend in banking? Singapore’s @dbsbank plans to replace a staggering 4,000 human brains with hundreds of AI platforms and systems And the bank is not the only financial institution that is embracing AI. Far from it. https://t.co/Sg2CTNWklG

Michiel Willems
Michiel Willems @NewsFromMichiel
26 Feb 25

MIDWEEK Read: Is a shortage of developers hampering QA efforts in financial services? Yes, industry insiders warn that a lack of QA professionals is severely impacting testing capabilities in the finance space, with no immediate solution in sight https://t.co/YqRM05JjWr #Tech