An agent can act on a customer's behalf and still not be on their side. On NAB’s customer-authorised agents, and which side of the table yours sits on.

This week an AI didn't just act on the account — it built the agents that do. In the same week, a bank and a certifying body drew the human line back. Each item graded for provenance.

A summer watching AI in the art market: record money the auction houses banked without shipping one tool, and 'certainty' sold from products that don't exist.

The art market's loudest AI claim drew its first scrutiny from crypto, not the trade — while the only AI that shipped was quiet throughput below the majors.

Weekly AI-in-finance deployment digest: the family-office agentic launch that recurred all summer does not come this week — the run records the absence itself — and in its place ships Astraeus, a wealth-data ontology, the "data architecture is the bottleneck" thesis now productized as a discrete layer. The launches that did land sit at the two ends of the line: eToro wires official Grok and Claude connectors and moves execution to "authorize once, execute within scope" at the

The art market's boldest AI claim yet — “explainable certainty” from an unshipped engine — meets its opposite: the first AI aimed at restitution, not price.

Read every document in the deal room and you still don’t know the person. On the family-office AI operating system, and depth built from one.

Weekly AI-in-finance deployment digest: Bottomline's “Bea” informs while the treasurer executes; a vendor under-claims the assistive limit out loud; the EU AI Act's 2 August bite narrows to Article 50 disclosure with the onerous high-risk obligations phased toward 2027; capital flows to CAIS and Ripple's tokenised-fund rails; and the “autonomy is thin” counter-current that filled a section last week goes silent. Each item graded for provenance.