AI for FIs — issue archive
Weekly agentic AI updates and insights for credit unions today.
Brent publishes AI for FIs, a weekly newsletter on AI in financial services for credit union leaders. The newsletter is the public-facing evidence that Brent uses AI tools every day. It is the primary on-ramp for new relationships.
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- 2026-06-09 — An AI is negotiating repayment plans over the phone. — Plus: The 3 rules for putting agents in production, and an AI maturity model from Carnegie Mellon and Accenture.
- 2026-06-04 — What did PenFed get from AI that Uber didn't? Results. — Plus: AI bills outrunning proof of value, a bank CEO's "human capital" apology, and a Try This to pressure-test a...
- 2026-05-28 — A 3-minute mortgage. How? — Plus: BNP's open-model bet, the 3% controls gap, and a nice conversation starter.
- 2026-05-20 — When the agent fails, who's liable? — Plus: four deployments hit 70% automation, Colorado's AI deadline, and a kill switch that came too late.
- 2026-05-13 — The model is not the product. — Plus: AWS agentic payments, a Microsoft prompt-injection flaw, AI liability carve-outs, and a bank scramble over Mythos.
- 2026-05-08 — Four Takeaways from Anthropic's Financial Services Briefing — Customer deployments, new agent templates, a leadership question, and three lessons from CIOs
- 2026-05-06 — Stripe rewired the credit card. — Plus: Two payment primitives, JPMorgan's permissions playbook, and helpful agentic security guidance from the fiv...
- 2026-04-29 — This is the doomsday issue (don't panic) — A corner of AI safety research has been studying catastrophic AI failure modes for over a decade, and community finan...
- 2026-04-22 — An Account for Every Agent — Plus: Claude Design, Gradient Labs on banking-agent transparency, and 3,000+ bugs patched by OpenAI's cyber model
- 2026-04-15 — Perplexity Launches a Personal CFO. One User Found $14K a CPA Missed. — Agentic finance arrived at both ends of the stack this week: Perplexity and OpenAI on the consumer side, Lloyds and N...
- 2026-04-09 — The Claude Mythos Red Team Report: What Credit Union Leaders Need to Know — A special report
- 2026-04-08 — The Org Design Question Every Credit Union Will Face This Year — Plus: Research on AI sycophancy, agent payment rails from Coinbase and Visa, and an open model credit unions can run ...
- 2026-03-31 — The internet: Now with 7,851% more agents. — Plus: Citizens is spending $300M to have AI answer half its calls.
- 2026-03-25 — Who Authorized That Agent?! — Plus: MSUFCU deployed an agent that finishes skip-a-pay requests without a human.
- 2026-03-17 — 59 Hours Before Anyone Noticed — Plus: Fuse is paying 50 credit unions to ditch their legacy loan systems.
- 2026-03-10 — Mastercard and Google Open-Sourced How AI Agents Pay — Stripe and Fiserv are building on the same rails.
- 2026-02-26 — The Credit Union Movement Is Building Its Own AI Infrastructure. (The Alternative Is Renting Someone Else's.) — Plus: TD Bank quantified $170 million in AI agent value. Treasury just published AI risk guardrails.
- 2026-02-19 — 67% of Credit Unions Are Deploying AI. Only 16% Have a Plan. — New research shows smaller institutions pay four times the transition cost when they rush in without a strategy.
- 2026-02-12 — Half of Financial Institutions Are Shifting Budgets to Agents — Google Cloud's survey of 556 FI leaders shows where the money is going.
- 2026-02-05 — AI Agents Are Building Their Own Social Networks — Plus: NCUA shares AI risk guidance credit unions should bookmark today