January 25, 2017
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Banks' AI plans pose threat to thousands of jobs : Automated compliance systems set to wipe out post-crisis regulatory roles (Martin Arnold, 1/25/17, Financial Times)
Thousands of jobs will be put at risk as the world's biggest banks harness artificial intelligence systems to the wave of roles created in recent years to meet ever-growing regulatory demands, industry experts have warned.New technologies mean that banks could make vast savings in compliance, according to Richard Lumb, head of financial services at Accenture, who estimated that "thousands of roles" in the banks' internal policing could be replaced by automated systems."We are seeing work with clients today which is very much around big data and robotic process automation, where in compliance -- take anti-money laundering -- you can take out thousands of roles," Mr Lumb told the Financial Times at last week's World Economic Forum in Davos. "That is coming quite quickly now and that will sweep across the industry."
Posted by Orrin Judd at January 25, 2017 6:25 AM