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Advisers comfortable with back-office AI but wary of using it for client money

By Jack Gray

20/8/26

Financial advisers are open to using agentic artificial intelligence (AI) for administrative work across the advice journey, but still want human oversight for decisions that directly affect client money, according to GBST and The Lang Cat

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