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A field guide to AI agents in financial services. Start with a question, follow the reporting, and compare the evidence — whether you read as a person or an agent.
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- Schwab and LPL wired their advisors to the same model. Its mistakes will be visible only across firms.
- Ritholtz put its entire record behind one AI monitor. The monitor answers to 500 firms one contract at a time.
- Evergreen.ai gives free advice under a fiduciary's name. Its fine print says you are not the client.
- The flat fee averaged a 200x spread in outcomes. FINNY replaced it with 20 basis points.
- Dynasty named it Virtual Chief of Staff. The job that title describes is deciding which clients get an advisor's hours.
- Examiners found remediation that was reported and never happened. An agent writes that report faster.
- Rocket wrote strict code where it needed certainty. The authorization arrives as the word 'cancel'.
- Three rival agent-identity protocols agreed to interoperate. None of them published the terms of entry.
- FINRA would end pre-use approval because agents write too fast. The rule that replaces it is one no firm has to publish.
- Orion put $6.6T behind one door for outside AI. The firms walking through it don't write the door's rules.
- Anthropic went around the advisor stack, not through it. All eight skills it shipped stop before the regulated act.
- Regulators wrote agentic AI out of scope. Underwriters wrote it out of the policy.
- The audit trail already crosses firm boundaries. Its linkage key names the account, not the agent.
- WealthAi deploys in days and replaces nothing. Read that as a permission scope.
- Savvy's valuation rose 6.6x in 15 months. Most of the assets walked over from someone else's firm.
- Fifty requests ran, four settled. x402 has appropriation rules and no monitor.
- The AI Adopters Raised AUM per Advisor 22%. They Are Also the Private-Credit Cohort.
- Ezra Group's agent directory refuses to rank. The 0-to-5 score it's building collapses five dimensions into one.
- Citi isn't cutting advisors. It named the thousands it won't hire.
- Every figure is calculated, not AI generated. Now publish the engine.
- Frontier AI outran the patch queue. The FCA's answer was a clearinghouse, not a rule.
- FINRA Asked Where the Human Goes. A Dollar Line Tells Every Agent Where to Stand.
- Congress wrote the delegation rule for checkout. Your trades are outside the perimeter.
- No one has named the adviser yet. The rule that catches you won't need intent.