ServiceNow invests $40M in BusinessNext at a $700M valuation for banking AI

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ServiceNow put $40 million into Indian banking software specialist BusinessNext at a $700 million valuation, buying a channel into global banking AI deployments. It's a strategic minority stake rather than an acquisition — a pattern of platform vendors renting vertical domain expertise instead of building it. Vertical banking workflow data is the actual asset being acquired here.