European Banks Deploy Open-Weight AI Models on NVIDIA Infrastructure at Scale
Multiple European financial institutions announced production AI deployments using NVIDIA accelerated computing at GTC Berlin.
At GTC Berlin, major European financial institutions detailed production-scale AI deployments built on NVIDIA hardware and open-weight models. Revolut says its PRAGMA foundation model, built on NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs, currently serves 80 million customers with capacity engineered to scale threefold. Lloyds Banking Group, Starling Bank, NatWest, Santander, and Modulr also announced models for transaction processing, speech recognition, and payment operations. On the data side, HSBC reported 5x faster processing via Starburst Enterprise's GPU engine, while Stripe cited 42x pipeline acceleration and 92% cost reduction for its Radar fraud platform in offline testing. All figures are vendor-attributed.
Source: NVIDIA News. Original announcement: October 22, 2026.