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The bank is allowing selected corporate customers to connect AI agents to Premium APIs to view their own financial data. The pilot is cautious, but strategically significant.

A new UAE Central Bank operational-risk regime requires rapid reporting of serious disruption and raises the bar for resilience, cyber and third-party controls.

Reuters reported that Revolut disclosed customer data after fraudulent requests appeared to come from a legitimate government-agency email domain. The incident exposes a wider trust problem.

More than half of respondents in an Experian-commissioned survey say they would be comfortable with an AI agent applying for credit. The harder issue is delegated authority.

New FinCEN guidance recognises verifiable digital credentials in bank identity programmes. Proof is separately extending reusable identity toward proving agent authority.

ServisFirst Bank’s Covecta deployment starts with manual work outside mission-critical systems, offering a concrete 'outside-in' pattern for controlled bank agent adoption.