POLICY
Implementation guidance, supervisory expectations, high-risk system classification, and the conformity-assessment burden the Act puts on banks.
APPLIED AI
DORA, the EU AI Act, GDPR, cloud concentration risk, and data sovereignty converge into one 2026 compliance stack for banks. The strategic question is design discipline — running compliance, AI governance, ICT-resilience evidence, and sovereign-data choices as one architecture, not five parallel programmes.
APPLIED AI
On 25 May 2026, Pope Leo XIV released Magnifica Humanitas — the first papal encyclical on artificial intelligence. Read from inside the technology industry, not as doctrine but as an ethical framework, it echoes every moral anxiety that accompanied the train, the automobile, nuclear power, and the internet, and lands on hope.
APPLIED AI
Agentic AI has crossed from pilot into production across global banking. Seventy per cent of institutions are using it to some degree; only one in five has a mature governance model. Meanwhile,…
