Building the AI Bank: Speed, Judgment and Power (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798903423163)

This book is about how banking will change at its core when execution becomes continuous, customers disappear from the loop, and institutions are judged by how they act when no one is watching. What happens when speed turns judgment into power.

As AI systems move from supporting humans to acting autonomously, judgment shifts out of committees and into code. Payments execute before people convene. Risk materializes before reports exist. Ethics fails not through bad intent, but through automated behavior at scale. Banks should not carry their digital banking instincts into an AI future.

Written for CEOs, board members, regulators, and founders, the book introduces a whole new set of instincts to navigate the transformations that are going to be unleashed. We will need new ways to think about agent-driven and generative finance. Balance sheets that are no longer based on the underlying asset, payments as the first point of stress, and governance at machine speed. The book offers guidance in restructuring everything we know about risk management, core banking systems, mobilizing employees, and revolutionizing the very products that define banking today.

The banks that win in an AI world will not be the loudest or the fastest, as in the days of the platform era, but those whose governance structures withstand continuous assault. They will be the ones trusted to act at speed.