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The Impact of Agentic AI on the Financial Services Industry

Publisher IDC
Published Mar 25, 2025
Length 14 Pages
SKU # IDC19884555

Description

This IDC Perspective examines selected areas in which agentic AI can impact financial services organizations. Agentic AI builds on the capabilities of GenAI and LLMs but adds additional abilities (e.g., planning and executing actions autonomously to reach objectives). These agents can use tools to support their activities and produce relevant outcomes or outputs; they can also cooperate with other agents and orchestrate tasks through the division of labor, as well as engaging in self-reflection and planning.These capabilities enable financial organizations to employ agents to run and orchestrate important use cases (e.g., personalization of the overall client relationship, including product management and pricing), deal with overdue debt collections, and automate the entire origination and underwriting process. "GenAI can truly elevate automation, but agentic AI takes this to a new level by bringing to life the latent knowledge hidden in large language models. The added value of autonomous agents is that they can make decisions by evaluating and improving their own performance, analyzing their outputs, decisions, and reasoning processes. This is truly a step toward augmenting non-human intelligence and enabling a machine to make independent decisions." — Associate Director Michael Yeo, IDC Financial Insights

Table of Contents

14 Pages

Executive Snapshot

Situation Overview

Definition and Concept

Agentic or Autonomous AI

Multi-Agent Systems

The Role of the Orchestrator Agent

The Role of the Specialist Agent

Agentic AI Is Part of AI's Natural Evolution

Use Cases: Challenges and Solutions

The Benefits of Agentic AI for Financial Services

Benefits

The Risks of Agentic AI for Financial Services

Risks

Governance and Risk Management for Agentic AI

Global Regulatory Reaction to Agentic AI in Financial Services

IDC Essential Guidance on Agentic AI

Platform Considerations for Agentic Workflows

Advice for the Technology Buyer

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