Build Skills, Not Agents: Why Banks Should Ration Agentic Autonomy

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The boundaries that matter in a bank are not agent boundaries — they are control boundaries.

Walk into many banking technology reviews in 2026 and you will hear the same ambition: agentic AI. Every line of business wants agents — a payments agent, a lending agent, a fraud agent, a complaints agent, a KYC agent. The instinct is understandable. Agents feel like the unit of intelligence, so more intelligence must mean more agents.

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Build Skills, Not Agents: Why Banks Should Ration Agentic Autonomy