How does Commonwealth Bank of Australia compare with its peers on AI and technology?
Commonwealth Bank of Australia scores 88.2 on this site's global AI disclosure index, #7 of 140 banks and first in its nine-bank peer group of retail-led groups, ahead of DBS (85.5), Lloyds (83.6), BBVA (77.2), TD (75.3), NatWest (75.1), OCBC (73.4), BMO (73.2) and ING (65.2). The score measures what is on the record, not capability; Evident's 2026 AI Index agrees on rank, keeping CBA fourth of 50 banks worldwide and the only Asia-Pacific bank in its top 10. Three things separate CBA from named peers. First, frontier-lab ties on the balance sheet: its Anthropic stake was carried at A$1,527 million at June 30, 2026, beside a multi-year OpenAI partnership that put ChatGPT Enterprise in front of nearly 50,000 staff; BBVA's OpenAI alliance extends ChatGPT Enterprise to 120,000 employees. Second, production depth: CBA leads the group on use cases in production and described, runs more than 2,000 real-time models in its Customer Engagement Engine, and says an agentic fraud system has contributed to three quarters of its card fraud rules. Third, measured money: about A$200 million of gross AI benefits in FY26, expected to double in FY27. Where CBA trails: DBS reports a larger figure, about SGD 1 billion of AI value in 2025; DBS has more independent coverage on the record; CBA ranks eighth of nine on disclosed numbers; and its AI job moves have been contested, with 45 voice-bot-linked cuts reversed in August 2025 after the bank called its assessment an error.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
Data as of Oct 20, 2026 · Commonwealth Bank profile updated Oct 13, 2026 · computed tables recalculate from the 140 bank profiles on this site · Markdown
Where does Commonwealth Bank lead its peers on AI?
01
The only Asia-Pacific bank in Evident's top 10
Evident's 2026 AI Index, published October 6, 2026, kept CBA fourth globally and first in Asia-Pacific, citing the second-highest AI talent density in the index. In the same index TD placed 10th and BMO 20th; Lloyds says it ranked 15th in the 2025 edition.[1][10][11][12]
02
An equity stake in a frontier lab
CBA's 2026 annual report carries its unlisted Anthropic investment at A$1,527 million at June 30, 2026, up from A$153 million a year earlier, alongside an OpenAI partnership signed August 13, 2025. BBVA's OpenAI alliance (December 2025) extends ChatGPT Enterprise to 120,000 staff; DBS says it is model-agnostic and avoids reliance on any one provider.[2][13][4][14]
03
AI in fraud with a measured outcome
CBA says customer fraud losses fell by over 20% in the first half of FY26 against a year earlier, and its agentic system has contributed to three quarters of card fraud rules. NatWest's Fraud Triage Agent had held nearly 19,000 conversations by September 2026; BMO reports about 10% fewer false AML alerts.[15][5][16][17]
04
Formal AI leadership with a research arm
CBA appointed Ranil Boteju, formerly Lloyds' chief data and analytics officer, as Chief AI Officer from early 2026 and named its first Chief AI Scientist in May 2026. Lloyds hired DBS's chief analytics officer Sameer Gupta as chief data and AI officer in April 2026, and BMO names a Chief AI and Quantum Officer.[18][19][20][21]
Where does Commonwealth Bank trail its peers on AI?
01
A smaller disclosed AI value than DBS
CBA reports about A$200 million of measured gross AI benefits in FY26, including reinvested capacity. DBS reports about SGD 1 billion of AI economic value in 2025 from more than 2,000 models; TD reports C$195 million in the first three quarters of fiscal 2026. Definitions differ, so the figures are not like for like.[6][7][22]
02
Less independent coverage than DBS and TD
CBA ranks fourth of nine on independent sources in this site's index, behind DBS, which leads the group, and ranks eighth of nine on disclosed numbers, where BBVA leads. DBS also carries outside awards such as Global Finance's World's Best AI Bank (October 2025).[23]
03
Contested AI job decisions
Reuters reported in July 2025 that CBA would cut 45 customer-service jobs after a voice bot launch; the bank reversed the cuts in August, saying its assessment had been an error. Later rounds of 300 roles (February 2026) and about 120 roles (April 2026) were reported alongside the AI push. DBS framed its own reduction of about 4,000 contract roles as attrition, with permanent staff unaffected.[8][9][24][25][26]
Where does Commonwealth Bank rank against its peers on AI disclosure?
Scores from reference score: the AI-index formula applied to all 140 profiles (0–100; 45% of the weight on independent coverage). The index measures what each bank has put on the public record and what outside outlets have reported about its AI, not capability or spending; every count is of entries on that bank's profile, each of which cites its sources.
| Bank | Score | Rank | Independent sources | Own disclosures | Use cases in production | Moves, last 12 months | Named AI platform |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Bank of Australia (this page) | 88.2 | #7 of 140 | 20 | 28 | 16 of 20 | 25 | AI Factory, Customer Engagement Engine and CommBank Companion[2][27][3][28][29] |
| DBS Group Holdings | 85.5 | #10 of 140 | 29 | 17 | 11 of 17 | 26 | ADA, DBS-GPT and the agent control plane[7][30][31][14] |
| Lloyds Banking Group | 83.6 | #13 of 140 | 20 | 22 | 11 of 19 | 23 | Envoy agent platform, Microsoft 365 E7 and the Group LLM platform[32][33][34][35] |
| BBVA | 77.2 | #27 of 140 | 11 | 45 | 12 of 19 | 30 | ChatGPT Enterprise, BBVA Assistants and The Eight[36][4][37][38][39][40][41][42] |
| The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD Bank Group) | 75.3 | #34 of 140 | 23 | 17 | 8 of 15 | 18 | Layer 6, TD AI Prism and the agentic RESL model[43][44][45][46][47] |
| NatWest Group plc | 75.1 | #35 of 140 | 18 | 19 | 11 of 19 | 20 | Cora and the internal GenAI stack[48][49][16][50][51][52] |
| Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation | 73.4 | #37 of 140 | 22 | 9 | 11 of 14 | 18 | OCBC GPT, HELIOS and OCBC WoW[53][54][55][56][57] |
| Bank of Montreal (BMO Financial Group) | 73.2 | #38 of 140 | 10 | 28 | 12 of 17 | 28 | BMO Institute for Applied AI & Quantum, Lumi and Aura[21][58][59][60][61][62] |
| ING Groep N.V. | 65.2 | #53 of 140 | 15 | 17 | 10 of 16 | 14 | Central AI platform on Google Cloud (VISTA data layer) and the AI Risk Committee[63][64][65] |
On which parts of the AI record is Commonwealth Bank ahead of or behind its peers?
Each row is one input of the index, counted on the profiles of Commonwealth Bank and the 8 peers that are scored on the same basis. "Place" is Commonwealth Bank's position in the group of 9 (1st = most).
| Component (weight) | Commonwealth Bank | Peer median | Most in the group | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent sources (45%) | 20 | 19 | DBS (29) | 4th of 9 |
| Use cases in production (10%) | 16 | 11 | Commonwealth Bank (16) | 1st of 9 |
| Own primary disclosures (10%) | 28 | 18 | BBVA (45) | 2nd of 9 |
| Dated moves, last 12 months (10%) | 25 | 21.5 | BBVA (30) | 4th of 9 |
| Disclosed numbers (5%) | 20 | 22 | BBVA (25) | 8th of 9 |
| Named AI leaders (5%) | 16 | 16 | TD Bank Group (19) | 3rd of 9 |
| Use cases described (5%) | 20 | 17 | Commonwealth Bank (20) | 1st of 9 |
What has each bank in Commonwealth Bank's peer group disclosed about its AI?
Facts from each bank's profile, cited to the profile's own sources. "Not disclosed" means the bank's public record, as cited on its profile, does not state it.
| Bank | Platform or assistant, as the profile names it | AI leaders named | Headline AI number disclosed | Patents on the record | Open AI roles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Bank of Australia | AI Factory, Customer Engagement Engine and CommBank Companion[2][27][3][28][29] | 16, incl. Matt Comyn (Chief Executive Officer)[15][29][3] | Measured gross benefits from AI use cases (including reinvested capacity): about A$200 million in FY26, of which about A$100 million incremental in-year; expected to double in FY27 and exceed investment (Jun 30, 2026)[6] | 1 patent listed on the profile, e.g. US 2025/0307709 A1 (Vector embedder for non-natural language data)[66] | 9 open AI roles (Oct 5, 2026); most in ML & data science |
| BBVA | ChatGPT Enterprise, BBVA Assistants and The Eight[36][4][37][38][39][40][41][42] | 17, incl. Carlos Torres Vila (Chair)[4][42] | Employees using ChatGPT Enterprise: About 100,000 (70%-plus weekly active; about 3 hours saved per employee per week) (Jun 11, 2026)[38] | 1 patent listed on the profile, e.g. EP 3970062 A1 (Method and system for obtaining financial information about an object from a photograph, using machine learning)[67] | Not surveyed |
| ING Groep N.V. | Central AI platform on Google Cloud (VISTA data layer) and the AI Risk Committee[63][64][65] | 12, incl. Steven van Rijswijk (Chief Executive Officer, ING Groep)[64][68][69] | (Gen)AI pilots moved into production: More than 90% (Mar 18, 2026)[70] | Not disclosed | Not surveyed |
| Lloyds Banking Group | Envoy agent platform, Microsoft 365 E7 and the Group LLM platform[32][33][34][35] | 16, incl. Charlie Nunn (Group Chief Executive)[71][72][73] | Value delivered by generative AI in 2025: About £50 million (more than 50 solutions deployed) (Dec 31, 2025)[74][75] | 1 patent listed on the profile, e.g. US 12,095,784 B2 (Methods and systems for indicating the possibility of a cyber-attack on a computer network)[76][77] | 5 open AI roles (Oct 5, 2026); most in ML & data science |
| NatWest Group plc | Cora and the internal GenAI stack[48][49][16][50][51][52] | 9, incl. Paul Thwaite (Group Chief Executive Officer)[48][52][78] | Cora journeys enhanced with GenAI: 21 (17 added during 2025); all journeys targeted by end-2026 (Dec 31, 2025)[48][49] | Not disclosed | Not surveyed |
| DBS Group Holdings | ADA, DBS-GPT and the agent control plane[7][30][31][14] | 11, incl. Tan Su Shan (Chief Executive Officer)[7][79][80] | Economic value of data analytics and AI/ML, 2025: Approximately SGD 1 billion (Dec 31, 2025)[7] | 1 patent listed on the profile, e.g. US 2026/0170560 A1 (Systems, processors, and methods for managing user financial information)[81] | Not surveyed |
| Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation | OCBC GPT, HELIOS and OCBC WoW[53][54][55][56][57] | 16, incl. Tan Teck Long (Group Chief Executive Officer)[82][55] | Engineers' coding and testing effort: Reduced by 20-30% (Dec 31, 2025)[57] | Not disclosed | Not surveyed |
| The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD Bank Group) | Layer 6, TD AI Prism and the agentic RESL model[43][44][45][46][47] | 19, incl. Raymond Chun (Group President and CEO, TD Bank Group)[46][83][22] | Medium-term AI value target: C$1 billion a year (C$500 million revenue uplift, C$500 million cost savings) (Aug 27, 2026)[22][84] | 10 patents listed on the profile, e.g. US 2025/0119396 A1 (Charge card knowledge chatbot using a large language model)[85] | Not surveyed |
| Bank of Montreal (BMO Financial Group) | BMO Institute for Applied AI & Quantum, Lumi and Aura[21][58][59][60][61][62] | 16, incl. Kristin Milchanowski (Chief AI & Quantum Officer)[21][86][87] | Employee AI adoption: Above 96% (Apr 24, 2026)[88] | 6 patents listed on the profile, e.g. US 2026/0119566 A1 (Machine-learning database search and knowledge mining over query logs)[89] | Not surveyed |
What are the latest dated moves on the AI record of Commonwealth Bank and its peers?
The two newest dated entries of each bank since Oct 16, 2025, from the timelines of the profiles (which also log filings, results and deals that bear on the AI record), newest first.
| Date | Bank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 2026 | Commonwealth Bank | AGM: Comyn calls for AI regulation to keep pace[90][91] |
| Oct 13, 2026 | TD Bank Group | Agentic AI extended to mortgage funding and discharge[92][93] |
| Oct 13, 2026 | BBVA | First European bank to join the Poppy agent protocol[94] |
| Oct 12, 2026 | DBS | Tan at DBS Asia Future Forward: 'AI lipstick' and SGD 25 billion of AI financing[95][96] |
| Oct 9, 2026 | BBVA | Algorithmic trading: models plus generative agents on the desk[97] |
| Oct 7, 2026 | OCBC | MAS issues final AI Risk Management Guidelines[98] |
| Oct 6, 2026 | BMO Financial Group | Evident AI Index 2026: top 20 overall, #2 for reported outcomes[11][99] |
| Oct 6, 2026 | TD Bank Group | Evident AI Banking Index 2026: TD returns to 10th[10] |
| Oct 6, 2026 | NatWest | Evident AI Index places NatWest 17th[100] |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Lloyds | Evident AI index 2026: 15th again[101] |
| Oct 6, 2026 | Commonwealth Bank | 2026 Evident AI Index keeps CBA fourth globally[1] |
| Sep 25, 2026 | NatWest | Voice-to-voice Spending Insights trial and Fraud Triage Agent[16][102] |
| Sep 23, 2026 | ING | CEO at the BofA conference: 600 AI staff, Google as main partner[64][69] |
| Sep 22, 2026 | BMO Financial Group | C$1 billion a year from AI by 2030[103] |
| Sep 22, 2026 | ING | Six banks publish principles for agentic commerce[104][105] |
| Aug 27, 2026 | DBS | DBS and Stripe partner on agentic commerce[106] |
| Aug 20, 2026 | Lloyds | £100 million future-skills investment[107] |
| Aug 18, 2026 | OCBC | Gen AI call review and customer-service analytics[108] |
Which AI labs and clouds do CBA and its peers work with?
Partners named by each bank or in its own case studies. A named partner says nothing about how much of the bank's work runs on it.
| Bank | Named AI and cloud partners | Form of the relationship | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Bank of Australia | Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS, Microsoft | Equity stake in Anthropic (A$1,527 million); multi-year OpenAI partnership; core banking on AWS | June 30, 2026[2][13] |
| BBVA | OpenAI, Google | Strategic alliance extending ChatGPT Enterprise to 120,000 employees; Gemini for the workforce | December 2025[4][37] |
| DBS | Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude), Microsoft Copilot | Model-agnostic; 'US, Chinese, everything' | August 6, 2026[109][14] |
| Lloyds | Microsoft, Google Cloud | Microsoft 365 E7; more than 300 data scientists on Vertex AI | June-October 2026[34][35] |
| NatWest | OpenAI | Collaboration first announced March 2025 | March 20, 2025[50] |
| TD Bank Group | Cohere | Up to C$25 million over three years with Layer 6 | September 22, 2026[110] |
| OCBC | Microsoft Azure OpenAI | OCBC GPT for 30,000 employees | October 24, 2023[53] |
How does CommBank's customer AI compare with its peers' assistants?
| Bank | Assistant | Reach or outcome | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Bank of Australia | CommBank Companion and virtual messaging | One third of customers given Companion; 86% of messaging conversations resolved end to end | June-August 2026[28][29][6] |
| NatWest | Cora | 12.9 million conversations in 2025, half with no human intervention | December 31, 2025[48] |
| ING | Customer chatbot | 75% of chats handled without human support at year-end 2025 | December 31, 2025[63] |
| DBS | digibot and DBS Joy | More than 10 million customers reached; Joy fully agentic for 350,000 corporate users | July 27, 2026[111] |
| Lloyds | AI financial assistant | More than 500,000 Bank of Scotland customers | June 22, 2026[112] |
| OCBC | OCBC WoW avatars | Beta for 50 invited wealth clients | July 1, 2026[55] |
How does CBA's use of AI against fraud and scams compare with its peers'?
| Bank | What it runs | Reported effect | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Bank of Australia | Agentic system proposing card fraud rules for human approval; scam-engaging bots; NameCheck payee checks | Customer fraud losses down over 20% (H1 FY26); agent contributed to three quarters of card fraud rules; 5.9 million first-time-payment warnings since September 2024 | October 14, 2026[5][15][90] |
| NatWest | Fraud Triage Agent | Nearly 19,000 conversations since launch | September 25, 2026[16] |
| DBS | AI/ML monitoring of high-risk transactions | Flags transactions in less than 10 milliseconds | October 6, 2025[113] |
| BMO Financial Group | AI in AML alert handling and adverse-media searches | About 10% fewer false AML alerts; adverse-media searches from about 180 to 20 minutes | March 26, 2026[17] |
How does CBA's use of AI coding agents compare with its peers'?
| Bank | Scale | Reported effect | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth Bank of Australia | Over 80% of 7,800 engineers use AI coding agents | Three times more code changes; over 15,000 quality, resilience and security issues resolved | September 18, 2026[114] |
| NatWest | More than 12,000 coders with AI assistants | About 35% of code written by AI at full-year 2025; 'over 40%' by Q1 2026 | May 1, 2026[49][115] |
| Lloyds | More than 11,000 engineers on GitHub Copilot | About 50% less legacy code conversion time | July 30, 2026[116] |
| TD Bank Group | More than 7,000 engineers using AI | Most active up 29% in throughput | May 28, 2026[47] |
| OCBC | Engineers across the bank | Coding and testing effort down 20% to 30% | December 31, 2025[57] |
Which banks are Commonwealth Bank's peers, and why these?
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is compared here with BBVA, ING Groep N.V., Lloyds Banking Group, NatWest Group plc, DBS Group Holdings, Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, The Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD Bank Group) and Bank of Montreal (BMO Financial Group): the non-US banking groups on this site nearest to it in business model (regional or retail-commercial bank), balance-sheet size and home region (Asia-Pacific). Commonwealth Bank of Australia is classed as a regional or retail-commercial bank headquartered in Australia.
Is CommBank better than DBS at AI?
The record cannot settle capability. On disclosure, CBA scores 88.2 on this site's index against DBS's 85.5, and Evident's 2026 index puts CBA first in Asia-Pacific. DBS reports the larger value figure (about SGD 1 billion in 2025 against CBA's A$200 million of FY26 gross benefits) and more independent coverage.[1][7][6]
Which bank is the leading AI bank in Asia-Pacific?
On Evident's 2026 AI Index, Commonwealth Bank of Australia: fourth of 50 banks worldwide, first in Asia-Pacific and the only Asia-Pacific bank in the top 10. On this site's disclosure index CBA (88.2) also leads DBS (85.5) and OCBC (73.4).[1]
How does CBA's AI investment compare with BBVA's OpenAI deal?
CBA holds equity in Anthropic, carried at A$1,527 million at June 30, 2026, and has a multi-year OpenAI partnership with ChatGPT Enterprise for nearly 50,000 staff. BBVA's December 2025 alliance with OpenAI extends ChatGPT Enterprise to all 120,000 employees; about 100,000 were using it by June 2026.[2][3][4][38]
How does CBA's AI compare with Lloyds'?
CBA scores 88.2 on this site's index and Lloyds 83.6. Both put money on AI: CBA reports about A$200 million of measured gross benefits in FY26, and Lloyds about £50 million from generative AI in 2025 with more than £100 million expected in 2026. CBA's Chief AI Officer, Ranil Boteju, joined from Lloyds.[6][74][71][18]
Does CBA use AI to fight scams more than other banks?
CBA reports the most specific outcomes among its peers: customer fraud losses down over 20% in the first half of FY26, more than 2,900 scam-engaging bots deployed by February 2026, and 5.9 million first-time-payment warnings since September 2024. NatWest's Fraud Triage Agent had nearly 19,000 conversations by September 2026.[15][117][90][16]
Does CommBank have a Chief AI Officer?
Yes. CBA appointed Ranil Boteju, previously Lloyds' Group Chief Data and Analytics Officer, as Chief AI Officer from early 2026, and named Professor Mary-Anne Williams its first Chief AI Scientist in May 2026. Among its peers, BMO has a Chief AI and Quantum Officer and Lloyds a chief data and AI officer hired from DBS.[18][19][21][20]
How does CBA's AI compare with NatWest's?
CBA scores 88.2 on this site's index and NatWest 75.1. NatWest says all 60,000 colleagues have AI tools and that its Cora assistant handled 12.9 million conversations in 2025, half without human help; CBA reports 80% weekly AI use among staff and 86% of messaging conversations resolved end to end.[118][48][2][29]
How many CBA staff use AI compared with peers?
CBA reports 78% of employees with access to enhanced AI platforms and 80% weekly AI use (June 2026). BMO reports adoption above 96%, NatWest says all 60,000 colleagues have AI tools, and DBS reports about seven in 10 staff using Gen AI tools.[2][88][118][30]
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- Harnessing AI as a core enabler of business strategy
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