Financial institutions are grappling with token expenses that could soon reach 20 percent of overall labor costs as inter-agent communication rapidly burns through compute resources. Initial efforts to control expenses by routing employee queries across different models have failed, prompting lenders to concentrate on direct revenue generation rather than basic productivity gains. Meanwhile, retail adoption is accelerating swiftly, with most surveyed customers already utilizing AI to scout superior yields and refinance loans. However, the immediate balance-sheet risk of deposits fleeing low-interest accounts is currently curbed because lenders block external agents from directly initiating…
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Institutions are forming dedicated AI FinOps teams to selectively fund deployments linked…: Institutions are forming dedicated AI FinOps teams to selectively fund deployments linked directly to revenue growth.
Deposit margins face new pressure as retail customers leverage autonomous software to act…: Deposit margins face new pressure as retail customers leverage autonomous software to actively seek out higher-yielding financial products.
Profit vulnerabilities remain temporarily contained while financial institutions block ex…: Profit vulnerabilities remain temporarily contained while financial institutions block external automated agents from directly executing internal transactions.
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NEW YORK, Nov 10 : Banks worldwide are trying to curb the soaring cost of AI agents as spending on the tokens that power them could easily reach 20 per cent of total labor costs, according to McKinsey's Global Banking Annual Review.
Responsibility for controlling AI-related spending has shifted to new teams that some banks call AI FinOps. Initially, banks sought to rein in costs with systems that directed employees to different AI models based on the complexity of their queries.
"But those models are ineffective when AI agents are working, because they communicate with each other and tokens quickly add up," said Vik Sohoni, a senior partner at McKinsey and one of the report's authors, in an interview with Reuters.
As a result, banks are becoming more selective about where they deploy agentic AI, focusing on areas with the strongest expected returns. Productivity-related savings are relatively easy to measure, but banks are increasingly looking at AI-driven revenue growth to determine where higher spending is justified, Sohoni said.
Customers are adopting AI much faster than previous technologies, according to the…
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