Part 1 of 2 – A right-sized AI operating model for regional and community banks: six choices, tiered governance and a 90-day start. Part 2 sets the production gates every use case has to clear. Take a Tier 1 AI strategy and cut the budget by 90%. What’s... View
Every CIO and CTO eventually asks the same question: is closing the regression testing gap worth budgeting for. Here is the honest math. Closing the gap between how fast a bank’s developers now move and how fast its QA function can verify what they build is, at... View
Regional banks are not behind on AI in software delivery. They are ahead. The real question is whether test automation moved with them. Most bank technology leaders have this backwards. The assumption, understandably, is that regional banks and credit unions are... View
Development moved faster this year. Most quality engineering functions did not move with it. Here is how to tell if yours is one of them. Ask most CIOs, CTOs, and Heads of Engineering at regional and challenger banks whether their development teams got faster this... View
Banks increasingly consume AI through vendor APIs, SaaS platforms, cloud services, and embedded features. Proprietary architecture can limit visibility, but it does not transfer accountability. SR 26-2 states that model risk principles remain applicable to vendor... View
The Prioritization Framework for Banking Technology Leaders Half the US banks in one 2026 survey have already deployed generative AI. The harder question for AI in banking now is which use case earns the next budget line, and which one will still be defensible when an examiner asks how it reached a decision. The Defining […]
In April, US bank regulators rewrote model risk guidance for the first time in fifteen years, and wrote agentic AI out of it. A model gives you an estimate. An agent gives you an outcome. That difference sounds small until you watch it happen in a bank. A card dispute agent reads a customer complaint, […]
When your payment-repair agent releases a held transaction, could you show which version of which procedure it applied, and who owns that procedure? AI agents need more than access to banking documents. They need a living, governed model of how the bank works. IN BRIEF An enterprise knowledge fabric is a governed, living digital twin […]