Which large banks lead in strategy and technology vision?

Which banks have the strongest stated technology strategy on the record?

The 30 highest of the 140 banks with an executive statement, a stated technology figure or a dated strategy event on their page. Columns: the latest dated statement on strategy, investment, platforms, transformation or priorities by the CEO, chair, president or a chief technology, information, digital, data, AI or operating officer (other quotes are not used); the stated technology budget or investment figure; the latest strategy event (investor day, annual letter, roadmap, multi-year or transformation programme); and the named platform with the counts behind the score.

Each row quotes the bank's page on this site; the bank link opens the full record with every source. “Not disclosed” means the page records nothing on that point. Banks absent from the table have no evidence on this topic on their page. The AI index score is the bank's score out of 100 on the US AI index; non-US groups are outside that index and show n/a.

Which banks lead on stated technology strategy within each size tier?

The same ranking within size tiers; the headline is the stated technology figure where there is one, otherwise the latest strategy event.

How is this ranking computed?

Order: banks whose page states a technology budget, technology spend or AI or digital investment figure come first; then the number of dated timeline events matching strategy, vision, investor day, annual letter, roadmap, multi-year, transformation or modernisation; then the number of strategy statements (quotes by the CEO, chair, president or a chief technology, information, digital, data, AI, analytics or operating officer that speak of strategy, vision, investment, budgets, spending, transformation, roadmaps, building, platforms, priorities, modernisation, agentic AI or an AI factory); then the bank's US AI-index score, with non-US groups after US banks on that last key.

Only a statement that matches that strategy test is quoted; where none does, the cell says no strategy statement is quoted rather than using an unrelated remark. Every bank with any executive quote, figure or strategy event is counted.

Every cell quotes the bank's page as written: the statement with its speaker and date, the figure as reported with its as-of date, the event with its date. Nothing is converted or estimated.

What are the caveats?

This measures how much strategy a bank has put on the record, not whether the strategy is good or working. Banks that hold investor days and publish long shareholder letters score higher than banks that execute quietly.

Technology figures are not comparable: some are total technology budgets including staff, some are 10-K expense lines, some are AI or digital investment only, and non-US groups report in their own currency.

How does this differ from the AI index?

The AI index scores AI disclosure across eight components; this page ranks only the stated strategy (statements, budgets, strategy events and a named platform) and shows the latest statement and figure beside each bank. The AI index and its method are on their own page; the technology leaders and generative AI guides are hand-written cross-bank tables with their own sourcing.