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‘Know your agent’: Banks face a new compliance challenge as AI agents shop and pay on their own
Financial firms have spent decades perfecting “know your customer” rules. Their next compliance challenge: “know your agent.
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At the Fortune Leaders Forum in Macau on September 8, Zhuoqun Bian, president of Ant Digital Technologies, warned that banks’ long‑standing “know your customer” rules are giving way to a new compliance hurdle: “know your agent.” Bian noted that financial firms have spent decades refining KYC procedures, but the rise of AI agents that can shop and pay autonomously requires banks to develop new oversight mechanisms. The forum highlighted the need for banks to identify and monitor these autonomous agents as part of their regulatory responsibilities.
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