Webinar: AI agents to streamline regulatory change for banks

Finextra and Workday will host an online webinar examining how AI agents can help financial institutions manage regulatory change. The session will bring together industry experts to discuss how agents can connect data and teams so compliance groups can act faster after a rule change.

Regulatory updates such as new rules, reporting obligations, added sanctions or internal policy changes often trigger work across finance, procurement, legal, HR, operations and IT. Teams may need to identify affected contracts, review supplier and customer relationships, update processes, assemble reporting datasets and assess any new costs or staffing needs.

Panelists will describe agents that aggregate contract clauses, supplier records, financial transactions, organizational charts, policy documents and historical process data into a single view. Agents can index unstructured regulatory text and internal records, map them to entities such as contracts, vendors and product lines, and surface items for review.

Typical integration steps involve ingesting rule text and internal documents, identifying potentially affected items, creating searchable lists for owners to verify, routing tasks to the right teams, generating reporting templates and maintaining an audit trail. Human specialists validate findings and refine the agent’s mappings and data links.

Key stakeholders in an agent-enabled response include compliance and legal teams that interpret requirements; finance and reporting teams that prepare data; procurement and vendor managers assessing supplier impacts; HR for workforce issues; operations and IT for systems changes; and senior management for resourcing and governance. Implementations require clear role definitions, data access agreements and interfaces that let experts accept, reject or refine agent suggestions.

A full value-chain example starts with a regulatory notice. An agent parses the notice, maps it to internal contracts and customer records, and produces a prioritized list of contracts for review. Procurement and legal examine highlighted clauses with links to source documents. Finance extracts reporting fields to calculate exposure and projected costs. HR and operations assess staffing impacts. IT applies configuration changes and updates reporting feeds. The agent tracks completion, records decisions for auditors and updates process documentation after remediation.

Speakers will address barriers such as data silos, inconsistent metadata and the need for secure integrations. The panel will discuss phasing agents into compliance workflows, starting with focused use cases such as contract screening or sanctions screening and expanding to broader regulatory response tasks. Organizers state agents are intended to reduce time spent on information gathering and coordination while final decisions remain with expert teams.

The webinar is presented by Finextra in association with Workday and will be moderated by Jane Cooper, contributor at Finextra. Registration details are available through the organizers for compliance, risk and technology professionals interested in applying AI agents to regulatory change management.