Banking and Finance · Industry Guide
AI Risk for Banking and Financial Services
Banks have always been audited. AI changes what auditors will be auditing. The Posture Check is the calibration; the paid audit is the evidence.
Regulatory drivers
- OSFI B-13 (Canada)
- OCC Bulletin 2021-39 (US)
- FFIEC Information Technology Handbook
- EU AI Act high-risk classifications for credit scoring
- Model Risk Management (SR 11-7 in US, OSFI E-23 in Canada)
Top AI risks for banking and finance
- Customer-facing chatbots leaking PII or making advice-like statements
- Internal copilots (Copilot, Gemini) surfacing privileged data through permissions inheritance
- Trading-related AI raising market-conduct questions
- Vendor concentration if multiple lines of business depend on a single AI vendor
- Hallucinated content in customer-facing channels creating reputational and legal risk
Common engagement use cases
- Pre-rollout AI Posture Check before deploying Copilot or ChatGPT Enterprise across the enterprise
- Vendor due-diligence on AI providers as part of OSFI B-13 third-party-risk-management evidence
- Adversarial testing of customer-facing chatbots before public launch
- Board-level AI governance maturity briefings
Engagement shape
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