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    EXL

    AI Service Providers for Financial Services

    Placed in 1 PeMa market and a Leader in 1 of them, with its strongest showing in AI Service Providers for Financial Services.

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    1999

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    New York, NY, USA

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    a Leader in every year since 2023

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    AI Service Providers for Financial ServicesLeader · 2026
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    Profile

    About EXL

    EXL is a data and AI services company headquartered in New York and founded in 1999, with more than 74,000 employees.

    It combines analytics, AI, digital operations and domain expertise for insurance, healthcare, banking and other industries. In August 2026 it completed the acquisition of iMerit, creating a model training solutions practice. In October it made agentic versions of its LifePRO life insurance platform and health plan Payment Integrity product available. Its third-quarter results, reported on 27 October, showed revenue of $634 million, up 19.7%, with data and AI-led revenue at almost two-thirds of the business and growing 36%. It added 14 clients in the quarter and raised full-year guidance to $2.43–2.44 billion. AIM Research places EXL as a Leader in AI Service Providers for Financial Services, and it is also evaluated in data engineering, data science, generative AI and MLOps services.

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    Website ir.exlservice.com

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    What changed lately

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    Named an OpenAI Select Partner for regulated-industry AI deployments

    EXL joined the OpenAI Partner Network at Select tier. It plans to apply OpenAI frontier models, including reasoning and computer-use capabilities, to end-to-end client workflows in insurance, financial services and healthcare, such as underwriting, claims, credit decisioning and compliance. No clients were named.

    Buyer takeawayInsurers and lenders that standardise on OpenAI models gain a services partner with formal OpenAI standing and deep domain process experience.

    ▲ New partner credentialBanking & insuranceOpenAI customersNew buyers

    Ask EXLWhich live client workflows already run on OpenAI models through EXL, and who carries liability for agent errors in regulated processes?

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    Reports Q3 revenue of $634M, up 19.7%, and raises 2026 guidance

    EXL reported third-quarter 2026 revenue of $634.0 million, up 19.7% year on year, and lifted full-year revenue guidance to $2.430–2.440 billion. Its CEO said data and AI-led revenue is almost two-thirds of the business and grew 36%. EXL added 14 new clients and now has over 74,000 employees.

    Buyer takeawayEXL's data and AI business is growing faster than the company overall, which lowers delivery and continuity risk for multi-year programmes.

    ▲ Lower vendor riskBanking & insuranceExisting customersNew buyers

    Ask EXLWhich of the 14 new third-quarter clients are insurers or banks, and what share of their contracts is data and AI-led work?

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    Embeds agentic AI into LifePRO insurance suite and Payment Integrity

    EXL made agent-based versions of its LifePRO life insurance platform and its health plan Payment Integrity product available. LifePRO agents read product specifications and propose configurations for human approval with audit trails. EXL says launch cycles can fall to 16 weeks from the usual eight to ten months.

    Buyer takeawayLife insurers running LifePRO can test agent-assisted product configuration inside a platform they already use, with audit trails for compliance sign-off.

    ▲ New capability, generally availableBanking & insuranceExisting customers

    Ask EXLIs the LifePRO Agentic Suite included in existing licences, and how are agent-proposed configurations logged for actuarial and regulatory audit?

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    EXL insurance and healthcare head Vivek Jetley to leave and become Hexaware CEO

    EXL said Vivek Jetley, president and head of its insurance, healthcare and life sciences business, will leave on 26 October 2026 to become chief executive of Hexaware Technologies. He will stay in the role during a handover period. EXL did not name a successor in the announcement and pointed to the depth of its leadership bench to maintain execution of its data and AI strategy.

    Buyer takeawayInsurance and healthcare clients of EXL should ask who will own their accounts after October and confirm that delivery leadership and roadmap commitments remain unchanged.

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    EXL is a data and AI services company headquartered in New York and founded in 1999, with more than 74,000 employees. It combines analytics, AI, digital operations and domain expertise for insurance, healthcare, banking and other industries.

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