Introduction · Lead
Why leadership is the AI strategy.
The problem in financial services is not a shortage of AI strategies. It is a shortage of leaders capable of making them real.
A practitioner's framework for data, AI, and leadership in financial services. Written from twenty years of operational delivery across Asia-Pacific, not from the sideline.
In April, the UK government revised its AI emissions forecast by 100-fold. The more interesting story is not the correction. It is the structure that made it possible.
The infrastructure underneath the region’s AI strategies doesn’t exist yet — and the gap is structural, not temporary.
Four out of five corporate devices cannot run the AI the strategy promises. The constraint is not the model. It is the machine on the desk.
Four jurisdictions can each be coherent on their own terms. The problem begins when one institution has to live inside all four at once.
Four regulators expect financial institutions to treat customers fairly. None of them wrote that expectation with an AI model in mind.
An institution signs one contract. Underneath it sit three or four more. None of that chain moves the institution's accountability an inch.