New AI Capability Initiative

UK Finance and CFTE launch AI programmes for the financial sector.

Created for banking leaders and functional departments.

AI capability is becoming a priority for the whole financial sector. UK Finance, representing 300 firms across the UK banking and finance industry, has launched a new AI capability initiative in collaboration with CFTE.

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From AI ambition to AI adoption

Build practical AI capability for real financial-services work.

The initiative is designed to help professionals use AI more effectively in their work, and help leaders build teams that can apply AI with stronger judgement, confidence and responsibility.

Why this matters

AI is no longer only a technology topic, or something left to scattered experimentation.

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AI is becoming part of how financial-services professionals lead, decide, serve customers, manage risk, strengthen controls and improve operations.

For professionals, the question is practical: how to use AI effectively in the job, produce better work, improve day-to-day performance and build the skills now expected in financial services.

For senior leaders, the question is strategic: how to use AI to make better decisions, guide the organisation, ask sharper questions, identify opportunities and risks, and lead adoption with confidence.

That is the purpose of this initiative.

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Workshops and academies open to UK Finance member firms.

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Programmes for leaders, teams and core financial-services functions.

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Building AI capability at system level

AI capability is now important enough to be built at sector level.

By launching this initiative, UK Finance is helping the UK financial sector build AI capability in a structured, practical and responsible way.

For other markets, financial centres and industry bodies, it offers a useful example of how AI capability can be developed not only within individual institutions, but across the sector.

Delivered with CFTE’s experience building AI capability with more than 200,000 professionals across 130+ countries, working with financial institutions, central banks and regulators worldwide.

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For sector level and institutional AI capability work.

UK Finance and CFTE launch AI programmes for the financial sector.

Build practical AI capability for real financial-services work.

Programmes for leaders, teams and core financial-services functions.

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AI capability is now important enough to be built at sector level.

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