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🟠 Just Released: The Brief | How banks can slow OpenAI In this week's edition: → Pat Signal: As the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic push to make LLMs the new financial hubs, patents are becoming a quiet line of defense for banks. → New Week, New Model: Google's Gemini 3 is impressing - but evaluations inside banks will be the true test of whether it's the right fit for use cases. → At Your Service: Deutsche Bank is launching a “banking butler” - a voice-enabled assistant that will evolve into a "non-stop banking" tool. Meanwhile, Commerzbank AG is giving AI a face with its avatar, Ava. What will the banking experience of the future look like? People mentioned: Sundar Pichai, Ethan Mollick, Claudio de Sanctis, Phil Thomas, Luke Gee, Vanessa Yiu, Yogendra Gadilkar and Hari Gopalkrishnan. 👉 Read the latest edition of the Banking Brief: https://lnkd.in/eQ2cTHA4 📩 The Evident Banking Brief is a go-to source for data-driven insights on how banks are adopting AI. Delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday, subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/eNdhgpUD

🆕 Introducing the AI Patent Tracker - your window into how the world’s leading banks are powering their innovation strategies by advancing and protecting AI-related IP. 🔍 Explore our database of 1,500+ AI-related patents filed by 80 major banks and insurers along with insights on: → Which banks are at the forefront of AI patenting → Where banks are focusing AI patent activity to drive returns → How regional differences are shaping the patent landscape in banking Available exclusively for Evident members. 👉 Already an Evident member? Access the AI Patent Tracker here: https://lnkd.in/ebR4Xzge 🧠 Not a member yet? Check out the key findings: https://lnkd.in/eECFktCb #banking #patents #artificialintelligence #ai

AI is evolving rapidly, but the fundamentals haven’t changed: data and people remain your “fixed stars” That was the powerful message from Marco Argenti, Chief Information Officer, Goldman Sachs during his fireside chat with Erik Schatzker at the Evident AI Symposium on 23 October. His key takeaways? - Build a strong ‘data quality story’ where information is accurate, deduplicated and machine-readable - AI performs best where feedback is clear - the next challenge will be encoding “tribal knowledge” - Future differentiation depends on how effectively firms scale collaboration between human expertise and intelligent systems 👉 Watch Marco's panel session and read key takeaways from the day here: https://lnkd.in/eNXJC-rA #evidentaisymposium #artificialintelligence #finance #ai

🟠 Just Released: How to judge your model In this week’s edition of the Evident Banking Brief: → On-paper tiger: The headlines are reporting that China’s Kimi K2 Thinking Model has beaten America’s best - but in the China-US AI race, what really counts: benchmarking scores or business impact? → Untapped potential: The leading banks in the Evident AI Index have the highest price-to-earnings ratios, a signal that Wall Street believes in their long term profitability. What are the big lessons to be learnt? → Playing defense: In this week's Use Case Corner, discover how JPMorganChase cut a cybersecurity task's time from weeks to minutes using a technique called "tradecraft prompting". People mentioned: Jensen Huang, Andrew Bean, Edward Achtner, Pat Opet, Bori Deak Cox, Mike Santomassimo, Tan Su Shan, Brendan Coughlin, Dermot McDonogh, Andrew Irvine, Fiona Browne, Claudio Balbo, Dror Ayalon, Meena Tumuluri, Benjamin Crestel, Sion Roberts, Robert Li and Yann LeCun 📩 The Evident Banking Brief is a go-to source for data-driven insights on how banks are adopting AI. Delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday, subscribe here: https://lnkd.in/e6Nhzr-W

How do we define an agent? 🤖 That was one of the questions Ian Glasner, Group Head of Emerging Technology, Innovation, and Ventures at HSBC, put to the room at this year’s Evident AI Symposium. In a panel discussion with Al Slamecka (Cisco), Pinar Kip Williamson (State Street) and Marcin Detyniecki (AXA Group Operations) on the tension between innovation and oversight, Glasner emphasised that AI risk ≠ new risk. Banks, he argued, should anchor governance in established taxonomies (operational, reputational, cyber), while enhancing observability and traceability to handle increasingly autonomous or agentic models. ➡️ Watch the full panel discussion and read the key takeaways from the day: https://lnkd.in/eeiB_KYC #evidentaisymposium #artificialintelligence #finance #ai

The Evident team is growing! We were thrilled to welcome five new team members last month, each bringing fresh perspectives and expertise to Evident's mission to accelerate the adoption of AI across financial services. 👋 Welcome to the team: Grace Bilodeau - Client Services Associate Hannah Burke - Client Partner Sanda Gherciu - Software Engineer Lauren H. - Marketing Manager Ciaran Sullivan - Client Partner Interested in joining the team or learning more about life at Evident? Explore current opportunities here: https://lnkd.in/ewnkF5Kw

🟠 Just Released: The Brief | Agentic AI’s generation gap In this week’s edition: → B of A's Big Day: Fostering adoption and halving fraud loss rates - our breakdown of the biggest takeaways for AI practitioners from Bank of America’s first investors day in 14 years. → Follow the Money: The low-down from Donald MacDonald on how Bank of Singapore has cut the time it takes to produce a key KYC memo from 10 days to one hour, using an agentic AI tool built in just four months. → AI Mood Booster: We review Truist's new patent for an AI sentiment analysis system designed to gauge customer happiness more accurately and more quickly than traditional measures. …and much more from the front lines of AI in financial services. People mentioned: Marco Argenti, Sathish M., Derek Waldron, Jason Droege, Manuela Veloso, Teresa Heitsenrether, Donald MacDonald, Ken Griffin, David R. Hardoon, Chitra H., Nonso Ogbonna, Ash Kaduskar, Nicolaj Gudbergsen and Ritu Narula. The Evident Banking Brief is a go-to source for data-driven insights on how banks are adopting AI, delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday. Read the latest edition: https://lnkd.in/eyrduSRG

At our AI Symposium on 23 October, an expert panel featuring Sathish M. (Ally), Jodie Wallis (Manulife), Sameer Gupta (EY) and David Wu (Morgan Stanley) were challenged to answer a critical question: how can financial services leaders move beyond years of AI pilots and proofs of concept to achieve true AI transformation at scale? - "More importantly, your operating model must evolve in a world of agents. Will you still be tied to a specific role, team or domain?" - Sathish Muthukrishnan - "In a world where answers are abundant, good questions become the real commodity. The challenge is building talent pipelines that cultivate people who ask the right questions." - Jodie Wallis - "Two major evolutions to watch: first, a huge push for personalisation - customising products, offers and services, with today's cutting edge soon becoming commodity. Second, large scale transformation in roles across organisations." - Sameer Gupta - "We have many build and buy options for AI but Morgan Stanley's core principles remain: understand your data, ensure quality, prioritise controls, and make both data and tools accessible - especially in an agentic world." - David Wu ➡️ Catch up on the panel discussion recording and read the key takeaways here: https://lnkd.in/eujnsQgy #evidentaisymposium #artificialintelligence #banking #insurance #finance #ai

At this year's Symposium, Prem Natarajan, PhD, EVP & Chief Scientist, Head of Enterprise Data and AI at Capital One laid out a detailed and nuanced map for how Capital One has built a “tech company that does banking”. From fine-tuning data models to attracting top AI talent, we heard about the ingredients that got Capital One to Chat Concierge - an industry-first, customer-facing agentic chatbot. Catch up on Prem's fireside chat and read the key takeaways here: https://lnkd.in/eg34WYDs #evidentaisymposium #artificialintelligence #banking #finance #ai