SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Paywhere today announced the commercial availability of its programmable banking platform, giving banks and credit unions a secure way to serve their customers through the AI assistants, applications, and agents they already use. Both business and retail banking customers increasingly use platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and Copilot as the operating system where work gets done. Paywhere provides the financial-grade connective layer that safely brings the institution into these environments, allowing customers to work in the AI platform of their choice while keeping the institution's brand, accounts, entitlements, permissions, and controls intact.