This week’s stories include the following:

1. Too many regulatory schemes. (FinTechGlobal)
2. AI slop is wasting the finance team’s time. (ITPro)
3. Can we get some clarity, please? (CFODrive)
4. UBS new hires need AI proficiency. (FT)
5. AI-driven bank ecosystems. (KPMG)

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1.        An AI-driven economy.   (FinTechFutures)

2.        Should AI agents take on more finance work. (Forbes)

3.        What are banks on intelligence.   (Microsoft)

4.        Will AI debt lead to market correction.  (FT)

5.        The dark side of banking and AI.  (Reuters)

 My first work of general non-fiction is now out: Deluge Before Dawn, the story of the 2025 flood in Kerr County Texas which killed 119 people and devastated a county. It is a story of tragedy, heartbreak, survival and resilience. It is available on the following sites:

  Amazon.com

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This week’s stories include the following:

1. Trust and AI in the financial sector.  (FinTech Global)
2. AI recordkeeping hurdles for financial services firms. (ACA)
3. Can financial services overcome barriers to AI adoption?  (FinTech Global)
4. Finance leaders want more proof of and control over AI. (Business Insider)
5. Banks warn on AI shopping. (Reuters)

My first work of general non-fiction is now out: Deluge Before Dawn, the story of the 2025 flood in Kerr County, Texas, which killed 119 people and devastated a county. It is a story of tragedy, heartbreak, survival, and resilience.

It is available on the following sites:

Amazon.com

Stoney Creek Publishing

Barnes and Noble

Texas A&M University Press

Bookshop.org

Google.Books

Walmart

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This week’s stories include the following:

1. FOMO leading bank AI spending. (Banking Dive)
2. Canada’s big banks embrace AI. (CBC)
3. ChatGPT for financial services. (OpenAI)
4. Production AI in financial services. (CIO)
5. How AI will impact corporate spending. (Forbes)

My first work of general non-fiction is now out: Deluge Before Dawn, the story of the 2025 flood in Kerr County, Texas, which killed 119 people and devastated a county. It is a story of tragedy, heartbreak, survival, and resilience.

It is available on the following sites:

Amazon.com

Stoney Creek Publishing

Barnes and Noble

Texas A&M University Press

Bookshop.org

Google.Books

Walmart

This week only, the Kindle e-book version is available for $0.99 on Amazon.

This week’s stories include the following:

1. AI spots gaps in financial firms’ cybersecurity faster than companies can fix them. (FT)
2. NVB urges AI for transaction monitoring. (AML Intelligence)
3. AI puts banking governance to the test. (QA Financial)
4. Does AI threaten the global banking system? (CNBC)
5. How the Middle East became an AI fintech hub. (Arab News)

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This week’s stories include the following:

1. Will Agentic AI refine banking? (International Banker)
2. How customers use AI banking apps. (Yahoo!Finance)
3. The huge danger in letting AI replace bankers. (CNBC)
4. Is the future of audit real-time? (CFO Dive)
5. Making AI decisions defensible. (Forbes)

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1. AI and the lending experience.  (CNBC)
2. How AI infiltrated the FED.   (Bloomberg)
3. What forensic accounting can teach finance about AI.  (Treasury and Risk)
4. AI enabled internal audit fieldwork.  (PwC)
5. The rise of Shadow finance.  (CFO)

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This week’s stories include the following:

1. Financial crime at the identity layer. (FinTechGlobal)
2. 5 key takeaways from Zuckerberg’s manifesto on AI. (Bloomberg)
3. BoA commits to $250 billion to bolster AI. (WSJ)
4. 5 lessons for fintech onboarding. (CIO)
5. Closing the AI skills gap in finance. (CFO Dive)

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This week’s stories include the following:

1. Jamie Dimon recruits bankers and IT leaders to tackle AI risks. (Finextra)
2. When AI overwhelms humans. (Banking Dive)
3. ROI for banks on AI-redesigned workflows. (American Banker)
4. AI skills more valuable than an MBA. (CFO Brew)
5. Mandatory AI training at the top of Deutsche Bank.(Financial News)

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This week’s stories include the following:

1. Using traditional legal frameworks to regulate AI. (Reuters)
2. HSBC opens AI center of excellence. (FinTech Global)
3. The 60-25-15 rule is reshaping AI compliance pilots. (FinTech Global)
4. Banks appointing Chief AI Officers. (FinTech Magazine)
5. BaFin to monitor AI use at banks and insurers. (Reuters)

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This week’s stories include the following:

1. Prediction markets and AI: Is compliance ready? (FinTechGlobal)
2. AI is only as smart as the data. (Forbes)
3. This time is different. (Crunchbase News)
4. AI in fintech: use cases.(Intuit)
5. How financial services are using AI in 2026. (RSM)

For more information on the use of AI in Compliance programs, Tom Fox’s new book, Upping Your Game, is available. You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.com.

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This week’s stories include the following:

1. The future of AI in banking. (TheFinancialBrand)
2. AI and global bankers. (Reuters)
3. AI Playbook for financial services. (WEF)
4. Trusted data in workflow. (Microsoft)
5. Agentic AI in post-trade workflows. (FinTechFutures)

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This week’s stories include the following:

1. AI Is Now the Threat Banks Must Plan Around. (PYMNTS)
2. AI in fintech comes down to trust. (Forbes)
3. AI is beginning to justify massive data center buildouts. (Yahoo!Finance)
4. HSBC and Google announce an AI partnership. (HSBC)
5. FCA rethinks AI oversight. (digwatch)

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This week’s stories include the following:

1. Next era of AI-enabled banking. (FinTechGlobal)
2. AI-first banks rewriting the rules. (BCG)
3. AI can’t be a rainmaker. (WSJ)
4. AI is transforming the financial services trade. (International Banker)
5. Agentic AI transforming finance. (EY)

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This week’s stories include the following:

1. AMLA as a single financial crimes tool in the EU.(FinTechGlobal)
2. Is your bank ready for Agentic AI? (OpenTextBlog)
3. Will AI help women in financial services? (FinTechMagazine)
4. The next changes in banking will not be about tech. (TheFinancialBrand)
5. Bank CEOs brush off AI cash optimization. (BankingDive)

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This week’s stories include:

1. Smaller banks are missing out on financial crime prevention tools. (FinTech Global)
2. Top AI and Fintech firms for 2026. (Forbes)
3. Goldman CEO on running a bank in the age of AI. (Bloomberg)
4. AI is breaking the old banking hiring model. (techcabal)
5. AI cyber risk is the highest risk in banking. (FT)

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This week’s stories include:

1. ECB says the clock is ticking for bank cybersecurity. (FinExtra)
2. Pope Leo says AI could be our ‘Tower of Babel.’ (Vatican News)
3. Role of AI in financial compliance. (BizTech Magazine)
4. DFS issues AI cybersecurity guidance. (Sidley)
5. The impact of AI on Wells Fargo employees is ‘complicated’. (Banking Dive)

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This week’s stories include:

1. What bank execs are saying about AI. (Business Insider)
2. Fiserv and OpenAI partner to bring Agentic AI to banks. (Fiserv)
3. ECB urges banks to prepare for AI-cyber attacks. (Reuters)
4. AI is reshaping the digital supply chain. (Journal)
5. The next age of FinTech. (McKinsey & Company)

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This week’s stories include:

1. AI is democratizing lending services. (Wolters Kluwer)
2. AI’s delicate balance in banking. (Global Finance)
3. AI is running into roadblocks in the banking industry. (American Banker)
4. Anthropic with 10 new agents for banks. (Yahoo!Finance)
5. FIS and Anthropic pair for Agentic AI in AML. (WSJ)

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This week’s stories include:

1. Banks are growing increasingly concerned with Mythos. (Reuters)
2. Agentic AI reshaping bank compliance. (AI.Magazine)
3. US AI regulations in the financial sector. (SIA)
4. AI development for financial pros. (MIT)
5. The future of AI in finance. (Intuit)

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This week’s stories include:

1. Will Mythos threaten global banking?(FT)
2. Agentic AI reshaping bank compliance.(FinTechGlobal)
3. Taiwan develops AI to block Chinese banks. (TheBanker)
4. Transactions forensics. (Experian)
5. FCA picks banks for AI testing trials. (Bloomberg)

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This week’s stories include:

1. Banks warned about Mythos. (Bloomberg)
2. AI developments for financial pros. (MIT)
3. Agentic AI moves from automation to autonomy (Moody’s)
4. AI helped CIBC save 1.2MM hours in Q. (FinancialPost)
5. MPs say financial regulators are not doing enough around AI. (ComputerWeekly)

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This week’s stories include:

1. AI is the top data security concern. (FintechNews)
2. The perils of one-click ambition. (bobsguide)
3. To fight financial crime, AI needs context. (FinTechMagazine)
4. AI-driven pKYC. (FinTechGlobal)
5. 6 AI truths from Amazon CEO. (Amazon News)

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This week’s stories include:

1. Thinking about AI from the bottom up. (FintechFutures)
2. The AI fintech market in 2033. (Futurism)
3. Learning to say no for AI. (FinTech Global)
4. AI is changing how Saas products for tech are designed. (FinTech Global)
5. SoftBank is betting everything on AI. What could go wrong? (FinTech Weekly)

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This week’s stories include:

1. Customer service AI improving fintech. (Global Banking & Finance)
2. Solaris to become the first EU all-AI bank. (FinTech Futures)
3. Moving from detection to prevention using AI in FinTech. (FinTechGlobal)
4. FCA evolving on payment priorities. (FinTech Magazine)
5. Future-proofing AI for the Agentic AI era. (FinTech Weekly)

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1.     How AI is changing fintech.  (Intuit)

2.        GSA AI clause.  (Holland & Knight)

3.        Leading through AI transformation in FinTech. (Forbes)

4.     Mastercard unveils AI engine. (FinTechMagazine)

5.     FCA demands explainable decisions. (FinTechGlobal)

 For more information on the use of AI in Compliance programs, my new book, Upping Your Game. You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.com