Attesté bills itself as the ‘Strava for art collectors’. We read it as an art game that turns provenance into a self-reported score — and what it teaches

Weekly AI-in-finance deployment digest: Wells Fargo launches an "AI Teammate" across a $2.4tn division, BNY gives ~140 "digital employees" employee numbers and avatars, Datalign opens client-facing agents, consultancies push the judgment tier against 93% practitioner distrust, and Treasury / FSOC advances process. A thinner-sourced week — each item graded for provenance.

The judgment worth keeping human sits below the decision itself. On HSBC’s Trust Threshold, and the question of who to be with what you hold.

Weekly AI-in-finance workforce digest: the first sector-level payroll number (financial-activities −28,000/month); Block's AI-attributed 40% cut; Goldman's rolling reductions; the wealth-advisor tiers under pressure; the UK Skills Compact still unsigned. Each item graded for provenance.

Occasion: Two platforms surface in the log offering family-office-grade infrastructure to the same wealth tier with opposite accountability structures — Farther Family Office (advisor-led, human advisors remain the primary interface) and Eton Solutions EtonAlpha (self-directed from $15M+, no human-advisor layer as a standard feature, self-described as "billionaire-grade"). The position occasioned: beginning with the person, not the assets — both platforms disagree about the a

Weekly AI-in-finance deployment digest: Goldman Sachs and FIS put Anthropic agents into trade accounting, KYC and financial-crimes work; the FCA, Colorado and EU AI Act on AI governance; Farther and Eton for ultra-high-net-worth clients. Each item graded for provenance.

Institutional AI optimises what institutions do. On Merrill's Meeting Journey, the 17% personalisation gap, and which side of the table gains the hours.

A tool, or a colleague of your advisor? An institution can only personalise how it handles your money — never attention to you. What the friendly AI really is.