At Sibos 2026, Finastra announced two new capabilities for banks: Finastra Supply Chain Finance (SCF), aimed at accelerating working capital growth, and AI-powered Repair Recommendations within its AI OperatorAssist tool, aimed at speeding up payments operations.

Finastra SCF brings limits, exposures and data across trade finance, letters of credit, guarantees, loans and supply chain finance onto a single platform. The company said the product offers pre-built connectivity to corporate systems, ecosystem partners and existing Trade Innovation and Loan IQ integrations to shorten time to market, along with native secondary market capabilities for automated pricing, limit management and reconciliation. AI-enabled fraud detection, compliance screening and eligibility monitoring are built into the operational workflow, and the platform is designed to support thousands of counterparties and millions of invoices with real-time servicing.

AI targets payment exceptions

Repair Recommendations is aimed at a narrower but persistent problem: payment exceptions that wire-room operators and exception specialists have to manually investigate and fix. The cloud-native feature identifies payment discrepancies, analyses their underlying causes and suggests corrections validated against industry-standard scheme and network rules, including Swift, Fedwire, SEPA, UPI and Nexus.

Finastra said the tool is meant to reduce how much specialised expertise banks need to keep on hand for exception handling, and to shorten onboarding time for new staff by giving them reliable repair guidance rather than requiring them to build that judgement from experience. The company positions it as a way for banks to manage rising payment volumes as demand grows for real-time cross-border transfers and infrastructure modernisation.

Both capabilities are aimed at banks managing growing transaction volumes and more complex compliance requirements, without expanding headcount at the same pace.