Dr Efi Pylarinou

Agents in Banking: what I’m watching

Outside agents:

Liability: who keeps the evidence, who insures it
The push route: A2A via AP2, and a refund?

The bank’s own agents:
3. Where the agent register sits
4. Agentic PFM+: does Smart Cash go live?

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💎 This week's video: In conversation with Aser Blanco, Global Banking Lead at NVIDIA.
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💬 Banks are preparing to run 10,000, 20,000, even 30,000 AI agents. Asking an agent “please don’t delete my files” is not a control.

One day after Jensen Huang’s GTC Berlin keynote, where NVIDIA launched the OpenShell Reference Architecture, I sat down with Aser Blanco, Global Banking Lead at NVIDIA, to talk about what it means for banks.

We cover:
🔺 Why the controls have to sit outside the agent’s sandbox, and the extra layers Vera CPUs and BlueField DPUs add at the hardware and network level
🔺 What financial services still needs on traceability and audit trails
🔺 Bank foundation models: why Aser says it takes two data scientists and a few days, not billions
🔺 Why fraud is the first use case, with payback in four to eight months
🔺 From data silos to one intelligence layer, and why banks may finally become customer-centric
🔺 5,000 agents for a data transformation, 20,000 lines of legacy code in an afternoon, and why the excuses have run out
🔺 Why this is a business revolution that the CEO has to lead

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What Does the ‘I’ in AI Really Mean? 🤖 🤷‍♂️❓

5️⃣ scientific experts discuss whether artificial intelligence is—or might one day become—truly intelligent.

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93% of merchants say the agent’s provider should bear the loss when an AI agent buys wrong. 80% want its authority verified. Liability isn’t only a bank fight.

132 Million Americans Now Shop With AI, and 59% of Those Purchases Still Land on Amazon
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