{"id":656887,"date":"2026-06-25T04:13:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656887\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T04:13:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T04:13:22","slug":"the-ex-jpmorgan-man-that-led-the-cloud-revolution-in-banks-is-now-pushing-ai-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/656887\/","title":{"rendered":"The ex-JPMorgan man that led the cloud revolution in banks is now pushing AI instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Mullins has been around. He was a former executive director at JPMorgan working in trade surveillance, and a managing director at the NASDAQ exchange. For the last 12 years, however, he has been at the forefront of one of banking&#8217;s biggest technological changes. Now, he&#8217;s leaving that behind for an even bigger one.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VacsPmzKGGGK91C7dR39\">\ud83d\udca5Follow us on WhatsApp for news alerts.<\/a>\ud83d\udca5<\/p>\n<p>Mullins was most recently an MD at <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.efinancialcareers.com\/news\/cloud-engineer-job-security-finance\">cloud infrastructure<\/a> firm <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.efinancialcareers.com\/news\/2020\/09\/james-saull-barclays-aws\">Amazon Web Services<\/a>, and its global manager for worldwide financial services. Now, he&#8217;s joining <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.efinancialcareers.com\/news\/openai-culture\">OpenAI <\/a>in New York as its head of financial services. Neither he nor OpenAI responded to a comment request, but it seems like he&#8217;ll be attempting to ramp up the adoption of ChatGPT and relevant AI tools among banks, hedge funds and other financial firms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a logical next step for Mullins, who has waxed lyrical for years about cloud technology as a means of facilitating AI. He told theCUBE<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/siliconangle.com\/2024\/06\/11\/generative-ai-in-financial-services-amazon-web-services-awsfinserv\/\"> in 2024<\/a> that &#8220;to actually leverage generative AI&#8230; you\u2019ve got to have your data organized in a way that makes it easy to do that.&#8221; He told the publication <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/siliconangle.com\/2026\/05\/22\/ai-in-financial-services-moves-beyond-pilots-profits-awsfinserv\/\">last month <\/a>that the biggest problem with AI is convincing CEOs to adopt it, rather than the integration itself. His new role presumably includes a lot convincing.<\/p>\n<p>Some firms may be easier to convince than others. The likes of HSBC and Standard Chartered are planning to cut tens of thousands of jobs collectively, citing AI as the primary reason. Various <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.efinancialcareers.com\/news\/robinhood-coinbase-and-block-laid-off-staff-after-adopting-ai-private-fintechs-aren-t-doing-the-same\">fintechs,<\/a> comparatively younger institutions, are also conducting AI-driven mass layoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The real test will be implementing the technology in key revenue-generating roles. Ex-bankers have<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.efinancialcareers.com\/news\/ex-goldman-sachs-banker-that-worked-on-thousands-of-financial-models-wants-ai-to-build-it-for-you\"> told us<\/a> that AI tools do not produce client materials to a high enough standard yet, while quants say that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.efinancialcareers.com\/news\/developers-are-doubling-their-code-output-with-ai-is-that-a-bad-thing\">AI coding tools<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.efinancialcareers.com\/news\/quant-jobs-are-some-of-the-hardest-in-finance-but-they-re-getting-even-harder#:~:text=AI%20is%20not,factored%20this%20in.\">can&#8217;t be trusted <\/a>for critical trading systems. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Have a confidential story, tip, or comment you\u2019d like to share?\u00a0Contact: WhatsApp: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/wa.me\/442079977910\">http:\/\/wa.me\/442079977910<\/a> (+44 20 7997 7910), Telegram: @AlexMcMurray, Signal: @AlexMcMurrayEFC.88 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.efinancialcareers.com\/about\/editor-tips\">Click here to fill in our anonymous form<\/a>, or email editortips@efinancialcareers.com.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.tagdeliver.com\/cipt\/a\/brand-dark.svg\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bear with us if you leave a comment at the bottom of this article: comments are moderated intermittently by human beings. 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