Global Policy Podcast

Agentic AI : Lessons From the Financial Crisis

Global Policy Podcast

Show Notes

For decades, every payment, trade, and transfer ultimately passed a human checkpoint someone who could pause, question, or pull the brake.

Autonomous AI agents remove that checkpoint. They can initiate, approve and settle transactions in milliseconds, at a scale and speed no risk team can manually supervise. Joshua Rosenberg spent 22 years at the New York Fed, leading its second line of defence as Chief Risk Officer through the financial crisis.

A three-time CRO, he's since carried that playbook from regulation into community banking and now into building a stablecoin bank from the ground up.

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