See all of our newslettersStart with what an agent actually is, because the term is doing a lot of work. What makes this useful in finance is a second piece: a way to expose real banking services as tools the agent can call. Your customers are starting to run their own agents, and those agents will expect to interact with financial services directly. The interface to finance is beginning to move from dashboards to agents, and the first movers are not banks. Those that treat agents purely as an internal productivity tool risk discovering that the primary interface to their customers now belongs to someone else’s software.