By Jason Renders
Publication Date: 2026-10-22 05:00:00
At GTC Berlin, banks, payment companies and financial data providers are showing what production-scale intelligence looks like — built on NVIDIA accelerated computing, powered by open weight models and running on their own infrastructure.
Revolut is rebuilding its technology stack on a single foundation model PRAGMA, powered by NVIDIA accelerated computing. Using the NVIDIA cuDF toolkit and Dynamo-Triton software on NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, Revolut is scaling PRAGMA in production, servicing an initial 80 million customers and engineered to scale 3x.
“Revolut processes billions of transactions — the opportunity was always there, but the question was whether foundation models could operate at that scale and across domains. PRAGMA answers that,” said Pavel Nesterov, head of AI at Revolut. “Built in collaboration with NVIDIA, it’s the clearest proof yet that the gap between a research breakthrough and a production banking system can be closed.”
Training on Accelerated Infrastructure
Starling Bank, the first bank to train an agentic model on U.K. sovereign cloud infrastructure, has developed “Starling Intelligence” — the intelligence layer that underpins its AI capability — on Civo’s U.K. cloud using the bank’s own transaction data.
Lloyds Banking Group built ATUM, a transaction foundation model that converts billions of banking transactions into reusable intelligence — accelerated with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs and improving…
