{"id":492905,"date":"2026-06-24T07:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/492905\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:37:08","slug":"banks-are-rushing-to-recruit-ai-leadership-but-how-will-the-tech-be-implemented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/492905\/","title":{"rendered":"Banks are rushing to recruit AI leadership \u2013 but how will the tech be implemented?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both regulators and clients could motivate banks to adopt <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/artificial-intelligence?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">artificial intelligence<\/a> for greater efficiency gains in the coming years, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) executive has predicted, adding the trend could intensify the global race to embrace the cutting-edge technology.Over the past few months, multinational banks have approached <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/presented\/tech\/topics\/generative-ai-and-cloud-services\/article\/3357917\/agentic-ai-takes-centre-stage-aws-summit-2026?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AWS<\/a> about how to grow their business in innovative ways, said Shaown Nandi, vice-president of technology at the US cloud computing giant, in an interview with the South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Though AI has already triggered massive lay-offs in the financial sector, industry surveys show the overall integration rate of the technology in the sector remains low.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Nandi said that based on his conversations with financial services providers, organisations were seeking ways to integrate AI into their services and provide customers with financial information as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAll of these companies think about how AI can help them achieve outcomes for their end customers more quickly \u2026 and they want to do it within their existing budget,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both regulators and clients could motivate banks to adopt artificial intelligence for greater efficiency gains in the coming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,1795,363,364,12033,1396,218672,4845,246931,175187,111,139,69,246928,15384,246929,14095,246930,145,3040],"class_list":["post-492905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-aws","tag-banks","tag-finance-sector","tag-hsbc","tag-msci-institute","tag-nandi","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-qbitai","tag-regulators","tag-shaown-nandi","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-standard-charter","tag-technology","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}