This week’s dominant theme is the convergence of AI-driven threat and defence across financial services: agentic AI is simultaneously industrialising fraud at unprecedented scale while banks and insurers race to deploy the same technology as...
The Woman Behind SpaceX’s Rise: The Executive Who Helped Turn SpaceX Into a Trillion-Dollar Giant
Not the Founder. The Operator: How Gwynne Shotwell Helped Build SpaceX She didn’t found SpaceX. But according to Forbes’ analysis of SpaceX’s ownership structure and IPO filings, Gwynne Shotwell’s stake in the company is estimated to be worth...
The Mythos Moment: Why Banking’s Next Transformation Is About People, Not Technology
Once in a career, you get the chance to work on something that genuinely changes how an industry operates. I have had that chance twice. MiFID II was the first. Project Glasswing is the second. And if anything, the stakes are higher.
AI in Finance: Today’s Top Stories — 22 June 2026
This week’s dominant theme is the transition from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale deployment across finance — banks are committing billions to AI infrastructure, regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are hardening compliance...
Beggars Cannot Be Choosers: Anthropic and the Pause It Never Asked For
For years, the people most worried about AI asked for caution, and some wanted an outright pause. Anthropic was one of the loudest voices urging the world to take the danger seriously, even as it kept building. It told the world its most advanced...
AI in Finance: Today’s Top Stories — 19 June 2026
This week, the regulatory pressure on AI in finance reached a new intensity on both sides of the Atlantic: US bank examiners embedded AI questions into every routine review while the UK’s FCA Mills Review moves toward imminent board-level...