Global Scans · Financial Services · Weekly Summary

• [New] Financial services will be central to making the UK a world-leading AI economy, by providing the capital, infrastructure, and trust needed for AI to scale across the wider economy. FCA
• [New] Quantum computing could generate $2.7 trillion in economic value globally by 2035, spanning industries from chemicals and financial services to travel and logistics. Consulting US
• [New] Prediction 1: Agentic AI Financial Services Automates 80% of Alert Triage By 2027, the most advanced institutions will run agentic AI systems that autonomously triage, investigate, and resolve the majority of fraud alerts without human review. Fluxforce
• [New] Predictions 1-3: Agentic AI Banking Rewrites Fraud Detection by 2027 The shift from supervised ML models to fully agentic AI financial services systems is already underway at tier-1 institutions. Fluxforce
• The UK regulator's first external horizon scan sets out how AI, synthetic crime and programmable finance could reshape financial services by 2030. Finance Magnates
• At the wholesale level, the Eurosystem's Pontes initiative will connect TARGET services to distributed ledger technology (DLT) platforms, enabling settlement of DLT-based wholesale financial transactions in central bank money by the third quarter of 2026. European Central Bank
• What happened: By the end of 2026, AI is expected to be nearly ubiquitous in financial services, with approximately 94% of firms either piloting or deploying generative AI across core business functions like cybersecurity, pricing, and risk management. AI Futures Forum

Last updated: 29 June 2026