Banks outpace regulators on AI, and the assurance gap must close

The fastest way to close the gap between AI adoption and AI assurance is to make every model action produce its own signed, verifiable evidence as it happens.

Banks can close the assurance gap identified by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance's 2026 Global AI in Financial Services Report by making every AI action generate signed, verifiable evidence as it happens. A sovereign, on-premise operating system builds that proof into the infrastructure itself.

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