AI Rewires the Bank: HSBC's First CAO, Stablecoins as AI Settlement Rails, and Why RegTech Is Having Its iPhone Moment
HSBC appoints its first Chief AI Officer, Comply ships the first agentic compliance platform via MCP, stablecoins quietly become the settlement layer for AI agents, and six banks cut 15,000 jobs while booking record profits. Finance's AI restructuring is no longer a roadmap โ it's happening now.