AI agents speed banks’ regulatory response

An industry webinar hosted in association with Workday will examine how AI agents can gather contracts, supplier records, financial ledgers and policy documents so compliance teams can assess regulatory changes and coordinate cross-functional responses. The session will be moderated by Jane Cooper.

Regulatory updates often trigger work across finance, procurement, legal, human resources, operations and IT. Teams must determine which contracts are affected, which suppliers or customers require review, whether internal processes need updating, what reporting data is needed and where additional costs or staff capacity will be required. Locating the right information and coordinating specialists typically requires searches across multiple systems.

Panelists will describe how AI agents can pull together business context such as contract terms, counterparty records, financial entries, organisational charts, policies and process histories into a single view for experts to review. Agents can flag likely impacted contracts, surface related counterparty records, extract key data points for reporting and highlight gaps that need human follow-up. The technology is used to speed assessment rather than replace legal, compliance or finance judgement.

Speakers will outline practical integration steps. Institutions should scope priority use cases, map data sources, and standardise how contracts and supplier records are indexed. Implementation work includes establishing secure data connectors, defining the agent’s remit for document parsing and synthesis, and creating human-in-loop checkpoints where subject-matter experts validate and refine outputs.

Key stakeholders include compliance and legal teams, risk and finance functions, procurement and vendor management, HR where employee-related rules apply, operations and IT for systems integration, and senior management for resourcing and governance. Data teams and audit functions support repeatability and preservation of evidence trails for regulatory review.

Participants will describe an end-to-end process that begins with detection of a regulatory change and an initial scoping exercise. Agents assemble and normalise relevant documents and records, run rule-based or model-based screens to identify likely impacts, and produce summaries and data tables for expert review. Following human validation, teams update contracts and vendor relationships, change internal processes and reporting frameworks, and deploy monitoring to detect further changes. Organisations must maintain logs and explainability for regulators and auditors.

The discussion will address implementation challenges such as data silos, inconsistent contract metadata, legacy system constraints and the need for governance over automated outputs. Security, access control and model transparency are identified as requirements to meet compliance standards. Practical recommendations include piloting agents on well-defined rule changes and involving legal and IT early.

The webinar will bring together industry practitioners to discuss the technical and organisational steps required to adopt agents in compliance programmes.