53 banks put 102 dated AI-agent moves on the record in Q3 2026 (July to September 2026): 23 describe an agent in production, 8 a rollout, 11 a pilot and 60 an announcement. The most active: Amex (7), Capital One (5), CIBC (5), ING (5) and HSBC (4). In production, for example: Capital One, Shetty: 'agentic AI now must be treated as an end-to-end system' (Sep 28, 2026, CIO Dive). Every row below links the bank's own source; the full dated record is the tracker.
DATA AS OF OCT 26, 2026 · 141 banks · 260 documents · 52 vendors · 4,879 sources
What moved in Q3 2026?
In the third quarter of 2026, banks made 101 recorded moves on AI agents across 53 banks, led by Amex with seven and Capital One, CIBC and ING with five each. In production, DBS rolled credit-memo agents out to about 1,500 bankers on August 19, UBS reported 560 live AI use cases on July 29, and NatWest reported five agents live on July 31. BofA's EricaAssist cut average call time by nearly a minute on July 21, and Customers Bank reported 600 agents and 46,000 hours saved on July 23.
In payments, BBVA made its first AI-agent-initiated card payment with Visa on July 2, the day ING ran a live agentic payment pilot in Germany; HSBC and Visa completed a live agentic card transaction on July 15; and DBS signed an agentic-commerce memorandum with Stripe on August 27. On September 22, Capital One, ING, NatWest and BofA joined two other banks in publishing agentic-commerce principles.
BofA's Moynihan said on September 14 that the bank keeps agents under control rather than 'left to operate', and JPMorgan joined an Nvidia-led open-source agent safety effort on September 28. Deutsche Bank put a source-of-wealth KYC agent live in Singapore and Hong Kong on September 23, and TD Bank Group said on September 9 that a collections agent lifted its connect rate to between 20% and 25% from 7%. At quarter end, the BNP Paribas agent partnership with Google Cloud, Santander's A2K protocol and ServisFirst Bank's Covecta deployment were still at the announcement stage.
Written from the rows below on Oct 26, 2026; every bank, number and date is in a row.
Which banks were active on AI agents in Q3 2026?
Amex with 7 moves, Capital One with 5 moves, CIBC with 5 moves, ING with 5 moves, HSBC with 4 moves, DBS with 4 moves, BofA with 3 moves and PNC with 3 moves. 18 of the 53 banks are groups outside the United States (ING, HSBC, DBS, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank and others).
What did each bank announce, and when?
Sep 202639 moves
Amex: Next-generation Amex Corporate launched, with AI agents planned for fallRolling out
New Corporate Cashback Card, expense-management software and the Amex Expense app integrate; Amex says it will introduce an expense agent (reaching employees via SMS/Slack to suggest and help submit expense details) and an insights agent for analysing spending data, plus Accounts Payable software, later in fall 2026.
Standard Chartered: Trust Bank's Claude-based incident agents reportedAnnounced
Computer Weekly reports that Trust runs AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that post a likely root cause before engineers join an incident call, cutting triage to about two minutes; it uses Claude Opus 5 for reasoning and Claude Haiku for simpler tasks, and the agents recommend rather than act.
Société Générale: Group CDO on agentic payments at Sibos 2026Announced
Christophe Tummers, Group Chief Data Officer, sits on a Sibos panel on agentic payments, where speakers say identity verification and trust frameworks must be in place before autonomous payments scale; Société Générale's programme lists the session 'Agentic payments: defining the blueprint for autonomous payments at scale'.
Capital One: Natarajan: cutting latency and token costs with smaller, open-weight modelsAnnounced
Chief enterprise AI officer Prem Natarajan says the bank has put more emphasis on agentic AI infrastructure to reduce latency and lower token costs, building customised open-weight and specialised models with less context targeted at the desired output; customer-service agents now edit only one-fifth of AI-drafted copy.
Citizens: Coughlin: engineers now 30-40% more productive with AIAnnounced
American Banker reports the average Citizens engineer is 30% to 40% more productive than a year earlier under the three-year, $300 million Reimagine the Bank project; Coughlin says the role is evolving toward engineers overseeing multiple AI agents, and that AI-existential-risk warnings have 'not really' changed the project's direction.
Valley: Robbins on CNBC: AI agents not a threat to regional banksAnnounced
The CEO appears on Power Lunch to discuss whether AI could affect regional banks.
JPMorgan: Joins Nvidia-led push for open-source AI agent safety toolsAnnounced
JPMorgan signs on to a shared, open-source safety effort for AI agents led by Nvidia, as the industry works out how to give agents more autonomy without losing control.
Capital One: Shetty: 'agentic AI now must be treated as an end-to-end system'In production
VP of enterprise AI Rashmi Shetty says 14 years of data-infrastructure work gives agents a strong foundation and context, and that the bank adopts platform-first governance — rule-based validation, sandbox simulations, observability of agent trajectories, standardised harnesses and human-in-the-loop controls for high-risk actions — before developers build agents, rather than retrofitting it later.
Huntington: Vakharia on AI in bank marketingAnnounced
The new chief marketing and digital products officer says customer research is moving to large language models and agentic AI, and that marketing uses AI tools internally for creative development, reviews and workflow.
M&T: FinTech Futures profiles the RDC.AI deployment at M&TAnnounced
Describes portfolio monitoring with predictive models and agentic workflows, where staff can override or reject recommendations.
Fulton: Salesforce cites Fulton's Agentforce rollout at DreamforceIn production
First agent set up in one hour after first hearing of Agentforce, power users within a week, 3,000 employees six weeks later; the Hunter outbound sales agent targeted $340,000 of at-risk pipeline.
BNP Paribas: Five-year Google Cloud partnership for agentic AIAnnounced
BNP Paribas and Google Cloud announced a five-year partnership giving access to Gemini Enterprise and Gemini models, starting with agents for corporate credit memos in CIB and Gemini inside LLM@CIB; Nickel Assist already runs on Gemini for 200 customer advisers.
BofA: DeMare: coding is the clearest AI returnAnnounced
At a BofA Securities conference the co-president says about 20,000 developers use coding agents for a 15% to 20% gain, about 95% of staff have AI access, and the bank is assessing third-party providers; Gopalkrishnan says AI investment interest is more than twice last year's and spending will probably double.
Santander and Santander: Santander AI Lab launches A2K, a protocol for agent-to-knowledge accessAnnounced
An open specification, running over MCP, A2A and HTTPS, that lets enterprise AI agents discover, select, query, cite, audit and reconcile knowledge bases with scoped authority and lifecycle management.
Deutsche Bank and Deutsche Bank: Agentic Source of Wealth KYC tool live in Singapore and Hong KongRolling out
Human-in-the-loop automation of source-of-wealth research for the Private Bank, with a wider rollout planned and a 30% rise in emerging-markets onboarding volumes expected in 2026; no US booking centre is named.
ING: CEO at the BofA conference: 600 AI staff, Google as main partnerAnnounced
Steven van Rijswijk describes a centralised approach with clear use cases, 600 people working in AI (300 in a hub in Türkiye), Google as the main partner via VISTA, agentic mortgages cutting complex cases from seven to five days, and conversational banking and a 75% chatbot share to come.
Capital One: Agentic-commerce principles with five other banksAnnounced
With Bank of America, CBA, ING, NatWest and ASB, a paper on transparency, safety, privacy and data, choice and interoperability.
TD: US CIO on guardrails against 'rogue' agentic AI swarmsIn production
Kiran Vuppu tells American Banker that agents given a goal can take many possible routes to it, so banks cannot predict every scenario and need continuous monitoring of agent reasoning (chain-of-thought observability) alongside guardrails and human oversight at both design and operational stages.
HSBC and HSBC: Investment in Promenaut; agent orchestration goes liveIn production
Chief AI officer David Rice joins Promenaut's board after an HSBC investment; the agentic-workflow platform runs business-case evaluation and pre-coding steps in the software delivery lifecycle, with permissions, audit trails and human-in-the-loop controls.
Raymond James: Meta's Muse reignites the AI selloffAnnounced
Raymond James shares shed 3.5% as LPL fell 7% and Schwab 6% on fears of consumer AI agents for investors.
ING: Six banks publish principles for agentic commerceAnnounced
ING co-authors a paper with ASB Bank, Bank of America, Capital One, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and NatWest calling for transparency, safety, privacy and data, choice and interoperability, including an auditable record of what a customer asked an agent to do.
NatWest: Co-publishes principles for trusted agentic commerceAnnounced
NatWest, ASB Bank, Bank of America, Capital One, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and ING published joint principles warning that agentic shopping is advancing faster than standards and consumer protections and proposing disclosure when an AI agent is involved in a transaction.
TD: US bank details AI in AML, engineering and the call centreAnnounced
Three AI models in the AML program, an investigator desktop in development, 1,800 developers on GitHub Copilot, and a vendor voice AI agent targeted at about 50% of incoming calls.
First Citizens: CB Insights joins SVB's partner network with its ChatCBI AI agentIn production
SVB (a First Citizens division) clients gain access to CB Insights' market intelligence on 13 million companies and ChatCBI, an AI agent using model context protocol (MCP) tools for market analysis and target sourcing.
First Horizon: Databricks publishes the CIO's data-and-agents sessionRolling out
With Deloitte, Sankararaman describes a Databricks-based Enterprise Data Hub (more than 35 sources, a platinum layer for regulatory reporting), a governed marketplace, Genie for plain-language queries, a multi-agent framework 'up and running', and a 2027 aim of agent-built data pipelines and an ontology layer.
CIBC: Barclays conference: advisers from four to five meetings a dayAnnounced
CFO Sedran's session described CIBC AI as internally built and agentic, with efficiency gains expected from every business unit and functional group each year.
BNP Paribas: Technology function commits to agentic AI investment in 2026Announced
In a statement written on 12 June 2026 and published on 15 September, the Group said it would invest in agentic AI in 2026 to meet business-line and function needs and optimise end-to-end processes, keeping service continuity, security and cost control as its three priorities, and cited the LLM as a Service platform as a foundation it had built in 2025.
ING: Barclays conference: AI used to upskill, automate and grow income; 1,250 operational rolesAnnounced
CFO Ida Lerner says ING is reducing 1,250 operational roles in a structured way, applies AI to upskill employees, automate processes and improve income generation, streamlines anti-money-laundering and KYC back-office work and uses agentic AI in Dutch mortgage origination.
BofA: Moynihan on agent risk: 'we just don't do that'Announced
After a weekend of public alarm over autonomous AI agents, the CEO says the bank keeps agents under control rather than 'left to operate'.
PNC: President Wiedman on agent riskAnnounced
After a weekend of public alarm over autonomous AI agents, Wiedman says keeping agents from being 'a little bit too aggressive in what they're trying to get done' is a top priority.
Fifth Third: Investor deck lists 'Agentic Jeanie' as a 2026 milestoneAnnounced
Barclays conference presentation: 'Agentic Jeanie & universal search powered by AI' in the bank's two-decade timeline; about 25,200 employees and $300 billion of assets after Comerica.
Scotiabank: Barclays conference: Ask AI at 18,000 staff, mortgage verification 70% fasterAnnounced
Aris Bogdaneris, Group Head of Canadian Banking, says about 18,000 associates use Ask AI, AI cut mortgage-underwriting verification time by almost 70%, the bank is developing agentic workers to complete whole tasks, and a rebuilt, AI-enabled Tangerine with 2 million customers will be unveiled in coming quarters.
WaFd Bank: nCino: WaFd piloting Analyst Digital Partner for credit riskPilot
nCino says WaFd is piloting the agent for credit risk assessment and financial analysis.
ServisFirst Bank: Selects Covecta to deploy agentic AIAnnounced
First disclosed AI initiative: agents embedded into operational workflows outside mission-critical systems to automate manual work.
TD Bank Group: Chun: 'sizeable upside' to the C$1 billion targetAnnounced
At the Scotiabank Financials Summit the CEO says an AI agent for collections lifted the customer connect rate to between 20% and 25% from 7% and that the mortgage agent is transferable to small business banking and auto finance.
First Citizens: Chief Data and Analytics Officer on Copilot and AskFirstRolling out
Scott Richardson details an enterprise Microsoft Copilot rollout, an AI Academy for persona-based learning, and AskFirst, a natural-language knowledge agent for branch bankers, alongside fraud, compliance and cyber-threat use cases.
M&T: Copilots to 15,000-plus employees; agentic AI examined for cyber and fraudPilot
Fast Company's Pacesetters profile of Wisler's transformation.
MUFG: Investors Day: AI agents for relationship managersRolling out
Group heads describe AI agents supporting corporate relationship managers end to end, JCIB tools such as Slide Generation AI and an AI assistant, and AI use in the global operations hub; the retail strategy names Google and OpenAI as AI partners.
MUFG: Kamezawa: AI is a workforce, not a toolAnnounced
At Nikkei BP's AI Leaders conference, Chairman Hironori Kamezawa says the terms AI agent and AI utilisation no longer feel right because AI is a workforce that coexists with people; MUFG already has results in searching its large body of internal rules and aims for AI to sit fully inside the organisation (Japanese-language report).
Aug 202620 moves
Synchrony: Strategy chief on 'healthy paranoia' about agentic commerceAnnounced
Maran Nalluswami tells PYMNTS the company must place bets along the whole shopping experience because no one has yet won it, and that merchants of different sizes need different AI approaches.
CIBC: CAI 2.0: an enterprise-wide agentic AI workspacePilot
Piloted in the third quarter: staff connect their data and tools and delegate multistep work to AI agents; the CEO expects headcount to grow over five years alongside productivity gains. AdvisorAssist cuts adviser documentation time by up to 50% in wealth.
DBS: DBS and Stripe partner on agentic commercePilot
A memorandum of understanding to accelerate agentic commerce and cross-border payments in Asia, including exploring joint development of agentic AI capabilities for DBS customers.
Deutsche Bank: Design partner for Google's Gemini Enterprise for Financial ServicesIn production
Early access to a purpose-built agentic platform with a Financial Research agent of more than 50 skills; Deutsche Bank is using it across the Corporate Bank to uncover client needs and streamline acquisition.
Frost: Blend reports agentic Autopilot results across lendersAnnounced
50,000-plus live loans since March 2026; Frost's participation undisclosed.
Axos Bank: Fiscal 2026 10-K lists AI development and use as a risk factorIn production
Agentic and generative AI, third-party models, explainability and evolving AI law.
DBS: Agentic credit-memo solution rolled out to about 1,500 bankersIn production
DBS announced that specialised agents tackling more than 70 tasks now prepare a review-ready first draft of credit memos for large and mid-sized corporate clients; after a pilot with 150 participants the capability was rolled out to approximately 1,500 employees globally. Credit memos can take up to 40% of a relationship manager's time, and the goal is to cut time spent by at least 30%.
Deutsche Bank: Agentic resilience platform for DORA exercisesAnnounced
Google Cloud described a Deutsche Bank platform that generates tabletop scenarios from architecture, logs and incident history using LangGraph and Google's Agent Development Kit on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, now applied across multiple portfolios.
United Community: Fraud technology lead on AI agents in risk operationsAnnounced
VP of fraud data and technology Micah Weaver joins an Alloy session on putting AI agents to work in risk and compliance workflows with humans in the loop.
Capital One: MACAW and open-weight models, describedAnnounced
A machine-learning engineering leader explains the multi-agent fraud-call workflow and fine-tuning open-weight models on proprietary data.
Synchrony: First chief AI officer namedAnnounced
Nimrod Barak, effective 30 June 2026, leads enterprise AI strategy, governance and execution, including agentic and intelligent automation; 90% of employees say they trust Synchrony to use AI fairly, ethically and responsibly.
Wells Fargo: Joins the Agentic AI Foundation as a Gold memberAnnounced
The neutral home of MCP and other agent standards; CIO Chintan Mehta cites interoperability and governance.
Bread Financial: Bread Financial joins the Agentic AI Foundation as a Silver memberAnnounced
The Agentic AI Foundation announced 57 new members on August 12, 2026, listing Bread Financial among new Silver members; the foundation said it had grown to 247 member organisations.
Amex: Amex Ventures backs FazeshiftAnnounced
Autonomous AI agents for accounts receivable, building toward a 'CFO suite built for autonomous finance'.
Amex: Amex GBT's Egencia connector in ClaudeIn production
Agentic corporate travel through Anthropic's assistant.
Goldman: Forbes: hundreds of agents work beside 12,000 engineersIn production
Goldman is described as the first major bank to deploy virtual software engineers on real production tasks, starting with legacy modernisation.
DBS: Q2 briefing: no 2026 AI value target, model-agnostic stackAnnounced
Tan said DBS has no 2026 target for AI economic value, is focusing agentic work on 12 enterprise journeys, and uses 'US, Chinese, everything' while avoiding reliance on any one provider.
Western Alliance: Innovation Banking joins the debt side of Ordway's $20 million AI roundAnnounced
Ordway, a billing and revenue-automation platform adding AI agents, cash-reconciliation and contract-abstraction features, names Western Alliance Bank's Innovation Banking Group as debt participant.
Amex: Amex Ventures invests in PieAnnounced
Pie, an AI-powered growth platform for small businesses, offers AI Search for visibility in assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity and a Front Desk voice agent that answers calls and takes bookings; the release gives no investment amount.
Citizens: Q2 2026 10-Q names Reimagine the Bank but carries no AI textAnnounced
The quarterly report attributes higher outside-services expense to costs of the Reimagine the Bank programme; neither the Q1 nor Q2 2026 10-Q contains the words AI, artificial intelligence, generative or agentic.
Jul 202643 moves
CIBC: CAI 2.0 announced; 250 testers; usage figuresAnnounced
CAI reached 50,000+ employees with about 20,000 daily users; CAI 2.0 uses a CIBC-built agentic harness and began with about 250 handpicked testers on OpenAI and Anthropic models at $4 to $250 a month each (group-level).
NatWest: H1 2026: five agents live, first customer-facing GenAI in BanklineIn production
The interim results reported 7.1 million Cora conversations in H1 2026, colleague usage of AI tools up threefold and AI-powered client intelligence in Private Banking & Wealth Management, five AI agents live supporting colleagues in core processes and the first customer-facing generative AI capability, launched in Bankline.
ING: 2Q26 results: Instant Mortgages in Germany and agentic mortgages 'live in production'Announced
ING launched Instant Mortgages in Germany with a binding credit decision in under 30 minutes and expanded AI-supported personalised marketing across markets; the CEO calls agentic mortgages live in production, serving more customers without adding FTEs, and says conversational banking in the mobile app will start rolling out soon.
BBVA: Q2 results release names 'The Frame'Rolling out
The release says the bank has eight AI initiatives and a global framework, 'The Frame', to industrialise the creation, deployment, management and governance of AI agents at scale; on the call Genç adds that more than 100,000 colleagues actively use AI.
UBS: 2Q26: 560 live use cases, agents for every employeeIn production
UBS reports 560 live AI use cases in production (92% up year on year, 920-plus in development), nine large-scale initiatives, about 18,000 developers using AI with over a quarter of suggestions used in production code, and every employee able to create AI agents; the Oxford-UBS Centre officially launches and two Celent 2026 awards recognise its research and wealth AI.
OCBC: HELIOS agentic AI cuts private banking onboarding to 15 business daysRolling out
Agentic platform completes much customer due diligence before the relationship manager engages a prospect; roll-out across Singapore, Hong Kong and Dubai by Q3 2026 and to the Premier Private Client segment by year-end.
CIBC: Best Gen-AI Initiative, third year runningIn production
Smart Library and the Agents Marketplace; Request a Call wins Best Digital Transformation Program.
Bread Financial: Q2 10-Q: continued AI investment, agentic commerce as a competitive riskPilot
The 10-Q says Bread continues to invest in AI capabilities, technology modernisation, marketing and product innovation, and lists the emergence of agentic commerce among the new technologies that could reduce demand from brand partners.
DBS: DBS Joy and digibot go agenticIn production
DBS Joy became fully agentic in Singapore for 350,000 corporate users, to extend to 100,000 users in Hong Kong in September; digibot adds Gen AI and later agentic servicing, all only after customer log-in.
BMO Financial Group: Agentic decision-intelligence layer describedAnnounced
BMO's AI Hub sets out a three-layer design (predictive, causal inference, agent) in which an LLM agent explains model scores and recommends actions, grounded in model outputs and policies for auditability.
Amex: Q2 10-Q lists agentic commerce among strategic dependenciesIn production
The filing ties results partly to the ACE kit, Agent Purchase Protection, making Membership assets discoverable on AI platforms and embedding AI into internal processes; it also cites AI usage costs.
Amex: Q2 call: closed loop and intent as the answer to agentic fraudAnnounced
Squeri says agentic commerce is fraught with fraud and hallucinations and that knowing what the cardholder wanted and what the merchant delivered gives Amex an advantage; agentic initiatives were not in the year's original spending plan.
Customers Bank: Q2 2026 call: low-40s efficiency target for 2027In production
OpenAI engineers on custom capabilities; multi-agent credit underwriting closed some C&I and CRE loans within a week; efficiency ratio targeted at a low-40% run-rate in 2027 from about 50%.
Customers Bank: Q2 2026 call: underwriting, KYC and close-cycle resultsAnnounced
A multi-agentic underwriting process closed loans within a week; AI KYC screening raised productivity 50%; month-end close fell 60%; 46,000 hours saved equals 24 FTEs; Sidhu leads a 40-person team, about 5% of the workforce; the bank says it was first to publish an MCP.
BNP Paribas: CIB Chief AI Officer sets out a six-pillar agentic frameworkAnnounced
Charles Holive described moving from generative AI that speeds individual tasks to agentic AI that rewires end-to-end workflows, with six pillars (business-led strategy, technology orchestration, data as a product, automated governance, people and culture, and FinOps with a value-per-token lens).
Synchrony: Q2 2026 10-Q carries no AI languageAnnounced
The 10-Q for the quarter ended 30 June 2026, filed two days after the call in which the CFO said 90% of exempt employees use AI tools, contains no mention of AI, generative AI or agentic commerce; the AI risk factors remain in the 2025 10-K.
Valley: AI strategy slides and a 500-basis-point efficiency thesisPilot
The Q2 deck updates the AI strategy, ecosystem and roadmap first shown in the Q1 deck (adding wire-fraud identification, collections and loan servicing to the use cases); on the call the CFO puts savings at ~$15 million against $3–4 million of new AI spend, and the chief credit officer says agentic AI is not yet in core credit analysis.
Customers Bank: Q2 2026 deck: 46,000 hours, 600 agents, 100% licensedIn production
Agentic pods pair engineers with bankers; a 40-person AI mobilization team; top-down targets of a seven-day loan close, commercial onboarding in minutes, and a cubiX agentic interface handling nearly 2 billion client API requests by year-end 2026.
ConnectOne: Q2 2026 call: agentic tools cut manual process time by over 50%Announced
Sorrentino cites the nCino partnership, with digital agents and business intelligence in the loan platform; the CFO guides operating expenses up about 1.5% sequentially in each of the next two quarters, mainly on staffing.
Bread Financial: Q2 2026 call: agentic commerce and servicing use cases with partnersPilot
Andretta said Bread is integrating AI for productivity, innovation and risk management and collaborating with partners on agentic-commerce and servicing use cases; the CFO said third- and fourth-quarter expenses would rise partly for AI technology, with an opportunity to lean in as agentic opportunities emerge. The 10-Q filed July 28 repeats that Bread continues to invest in AI capabilities.
BofA: EricaAssist gets generative AIIn production
Employee-facing agent summarises the call reason and recommends next steps; average call time falls by nearly a minute.
CIBC: Inside the CAI platform; agentic AI 'with humans in control'In production
A home-built meeting note-taker, fluency bell curves, and a governance-first agent stance.
HSBC: Founding member of EPAA's AI and agentic payments groupPilot
HSBC and Mastercard piloted end-to-end B2B agentic commerce transactions for two Singapore-based clients in May; the working group targets liability, agent-identity and dispute standards across Asia Pacific.
Capital One: VulnHunter open-sourcedIn production
An internally built agentic AI code-security tool released on GitHub under Apache 2.0; the CISO cites the brief window before AI attack tools spread.
State Street: Investor deck quantifies the 'Tech and AI-enabled Transformation' pillarAnnounced
~$1B run-rate benefits by 2029 (~$750M productivity, ~$250M revenue); core agentic platform; ~30-40% developer-productivity increase; ~80% of applications on modern cloud platforms, from ~40%.
Citizens: Q2 2026: AI agents in the back office, a 10x engineering pilotPilot
Back-office re-architecture with AI agents orchestrating end-to-end workflows, AI case classification, AI in credit-card contact centres and a first enterprise-wide AI-chat agent; about $7 million of program costs in the quarter.
Ally: AI agent personas patent application publishedAnnounced
US 2026/0203076 A1, filed 14 January 2025, lists Naik, Dubarau, Rajasekaran, Allmond, Lemont, Swistak and Muthukrishnan as inventors; American Banker called Personas 'patent-pending' in June.
RBC: OSFI bulletin on generative and agentic AIAnnounced
OSFI sets out sound practices for generative and agentic AI under its technology, operational-resilience and third-party guidelines (B-13, E-21, B-10), pointing to E-23 for model risk.
TD Bank Group: OSFI bulletin on generative and agentic AIAnnounced
OSFI sets out sound practices for generative and agentic AI under its technology, operational-resilience and third-party guidelines (B-13, E-21, B-10), pointing to E-23 for model risk.
HSBC: HSBC UK and Visa complete a live agentic card transactionAnnounced
An HSBC UK card is used for an end-to-end AI-initiated purchase on a live merchant website, described as an industry first, with biometric authentication and permissions to keep customers in control.
Amex: Premier member of the x402 FoundationIn production
The Linux Foundation body standardising internet-native payments for AI agents launches with Amex among its premier members.
ConnectOne: nCino agents live in commercial lendingRolling out
Banking Advisor in production and two custom agents on nCino's Agentic Operating System; 97.5% less time on document search.
Lloyds: AI Adoption Plan for financial services publishedAnnounced
HM Treasury publishes the plan by AI Champions Harriet Rees and Dr Rohit Dhawan: ten recommendations including regulation, AI-powered advice, resilience, skills and agentic payments; the government accepts those addressed to it.
PNC: About 115 AI agents built the new app; a PNC digital assistant is plannedPilot
Banking Dive: the agents handled development and testing with human review of their output; about 8 million customers use the app, mobile active users up 8% year over year; the release says the platform is designed for embedded generative-AI assistance and that frontier models were used to harden the development process.
PNC: New mobile app built with agentic developmentAnnounced
PNC's agentic development system and patented data-streaming microservices architecture.
Scotiabank: AI Consortium launched with Lightworks, Sun Life and TELUSAnnounced
Members jointly build and own AI control infrastructure; the flagship Agentic Control Plane is in production and processes more than two trillion tokens a month across members.
SoFi: Engineering blog names Claude, Gitar.ai and CequenceIn production
An in-house merge-review-bot runs on Claude on Bedrock, Claude iterates tests to 80% coverage, Gitar.ai reviews merge requests, and Cequence handles MCP authentication across a monorepo with more than 150 contributors and weekly releases.
HSBC: SAFR: safeguards for agentic finance at runtimeAnnounced
HSBC is one of eight firms behind the white paper with JPMorganChase, Mastercard and others.
OCBC: MAS publishes SAFR white paper with an OCBC case studyAnnounced
Safeguards for Agentic Finance at Runtime proposes governance checkpoints that verify and record an AI agent's proposed actions before execution; OCBC is among the firms whose case studies it contains.
ING: Live agentic payment with Visa and Worldline in GermanyPilot
A consumer sets purchase conditions, a merchant AI agent acts within them, the buyer confirms with biometric authentication through Visa Payment Passkeys and ING authorises the payment; Worldline and ING join Visa's Agentic Ready Programme.
BBVA: First AI-agent-initiated card payment with VisaAnnounced
A live agentic-commerce transaction with real card credentials and an active merchant in Spain, using Visa Intelligent Commerce and Payment Passkeys for strong customer authentication.
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