b1BANK partners with Covecta to deploy agentic AI
Business First Bancshares, Inc. (BFST)
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The multi-year partnership will integrate agentic AI into key stages of b1BANK’s banking lifecycle, helping teams work faster, improve controls, and increase capacity while maintaining strong risk and compliance standards. b1BANK is Covecta’s first banking partner in the U.S. BATON ROUGE, La., Feb. 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- b1BANK and Covecta announced a strategic partnership to deploy agentic AI across the bank’s day to day workflows. The collaboration focuses on streamlining and automating repeatable, policy-driven activities across core deposit and loan operational processes, reducing manual effort and operational friction so that teams can devote more time towards higher value-adding work including analysis, exception handling and customer engagement. Covecta’s agents will embed into b1BANK’s existing workflows performing structured, policy-aligned assessments and presenting clear, well-referenced outputs that are easy for operations and risk teams to review. These special
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