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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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All dispatches
- The high-risk deadline moved to 2027. Article 50 landed today.
- One Agent or Any Agent: LPL's $2B Platform Against the MCP Wave
- Five retail brokers wrote five different fences for agents. The herd doesn't respect any of them.
- Ostrom's missing rung: 411 advisory firms wrote AI rules and skipped the monitoring
- Deloitte's $10–35T Is Headroom, Not Revenue — And Headroom Gets Competed Away
- The Human Who Approves You Is Under a Deadline
- Alpaca's $435M bet: the brokerage's default client is software, not a screen
- A Budget Line Is Not a Price: What $8.6T in Assets Can't Measure About Its Agents
- Identical Prompts, Different Allocations: Advice That Tracks Vocabulary Is Discretion
- Wall Street is turning agents into 'digital coworkers.' The calm is the risk.
- Three regulators, one rule: every finance agent needs a named owner who can switch it off
- Mariner Just Repriced Its Back Office at $50,000 an Agent
- The Mills Review: a regulator starts building the commons for delegated agents
- AI-washing: the marketing rule turns your self-description into a testable claim
- The book of business just became a query: what Zocks' Client Queries obsoletes
- Arca raised $64M to point agents at the advisor's back office, not the client
- Savvy Intelligence and the Activation Gate: State the Rule, Then Follow It
- Ten templates, no blueprint: composable finance agents build order without an architect
- JPMorgan's agents beat 60/40 in a 20-year backtest. Read the caveat first.
- Everyone Rushed In. Almost No One Can See the Agents.
- The advisory copilot is dissolving into a team of specialist agents
- An agent just ate tax planning — and the custodians' stock told the story
- Governance at Agent Speed: What Singapore's SAFR Asks of You
- SR 26-2 pulls agentic AI out of the model-risk rulebook. So state your own rule.