From Fax Machines to Agentic AI in Banking: How AI Agents Are Transforming Middle- and Back‑Office Operations in Financial Services
Banks are already moving from “AI in the lab” to AI agents embedded in middle- and back-offices, and the firms that treat this as the next electronic‑trading revolution moment will pull away from the pack. Having lived through the historic fax‑machine era of trading and helped build some of the earliest electronic and ML‑driven systems at scale, I believe agentic AI in banking is the next structural shift in banking operations, and we built Artian for exactly this inflection point. In other words: yes—agentic AI and AI agents can automate meaningful portions of middle- and back-office operations in financial services when deployed with governance and humans-in-the-loop.
Dashboards Die, Chatbots Stall, Agents Learn
Enterprises today are flooded with data — dashboards, reports, chatbots — all promising intelligence and efficiency. Yet despite this abundance, meaningful change remains elusive. The problem isn’t access to information…
Vibe Coding Will Break Your Enterprise
Vibe coding tools like Lovable and Cursor don’t solve real problems in enterprise settings — they make them worse. In the world of sprawling systems, audit trails, and regulatory scrutiny, those “vibes” won’t cut it…
Challenges of Agentic AI in Finance
Building and deploying multi-agent architectures at enterprise scale is a deeply technical challenge that spans legacy constraints, integration complexity, governance requirements, and computational control…
Not All “Enterprises” Are Equivalent
The term “enterprise” is often used without precision. In reality, enterprise scale — especially in banking — carries specific implications that fundamentally change how AI must be developed and deployed…
Large Enterprises Aren’t Stupid, Stupid
They’re not dinosaurs, they’re not slow by choice, and they’re not willfully clinging to COBOL for the vibes. They’re deliberate. They’re complex. And — this is the part many Silicon Valley startups miss…
Engineering Hidden Below the Surface
When you think of Venice, you may picture serene canals, grand architecture, and gondolas gliding through the still waters. But beneath the beauty lies something else entirely — an unseen feat of engineering…
AI Agents in Finance: Why Artian Exists
Enterprises everywhere are starting to rethink how they manage their most critical workflows. They're beginning to embrace intelligent agents that can reason, adapt, and collaborate — just like we saw during a previous revolution…
Artian — What Does the Name Mean?
While we embrace the fighting spirit of the warrior ethos and the quest for perfection conveyed by various ancient associations, how we came up with the name Artian is rather ordinary…