At Benzinga's Fintech Day & Awards 2025, industry leaders converged to discuss the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on financial technology. Olga Zhukov, partner at GMind, emphasized that AI is driving technology's rapid evolution, making it easier and faster to develop sophisticated trading and investing platforms that were previously capital-intensive. “It’s great to see how technology is developing so fast. Something that wouldn’t have been possible ten to fifteen years ago without having a lot of capital invested, today can be done so much easier, so much faster,” she said during an interview at the event.
GMind, a custom software development company, specializes in helping online investing platforms, broker-dealers, asset management firms, and other financial institutions modernize their technology and cloud infrastructures. Through its GMind Ventures branch, the company invests in early-stage startups and assists fintech platforms in accelerating technology development and bringing new products to market. The studio combines startup acceleration, MVP development, and cloud-native expertise to help founders build market-ready solutions. GMind has collaborated with firms like WealthCharts, Ultrade, and ETNA Trader, leveraging its expertise in trading platforms, digital wealth management, brokerage systems, payment integrations, blockchain solutions, and Amazon Web Services infrastructure.
The key to fully leveraging AI-based tools, according to Zhukov, is deep expertise and technical acumen. These ingredients enable companies to correctly formulate problems, validate solutions, and ensure underlying technology is reliable and secure. This underscores the importance of working with an experienced vendor that understands both the AI landscape and industry-specific challenges such as compliance, data sourcing, integration, and migration. AI streamlines product development through automation, data analysis, and rapid prototyping, making it easier to bring financial products to market—a recurring theme at the Benzinga Fintech Day & Awards.
“It's great to be part of this innovation and to see how this is all evolving. We’re very excited. The future is bright,” Zhukov added. As technology continues to develop at breakneck speed, GMind positions itself as a strategic partner for fintechs seeking to harness AI for scalable, enterprise-grade solutions. The original content was published on Benzinga.
