⚡ Breaking - Westpac deploys swarm of AI agents to assess loan applications - AFR

📰 BREAKING

Westpac just put AI agents into production for loan decisioning.

Not a chatbot answering FAQs. Not a pilot summarizing documents. A swarm of autonomous agents making regulated financial decisions that APRA will audit.

This is the split: banks that shipped compliance-first architecture are now deploying agentic workflows in regulated domains. Everyone else is still running discovery workshops on governance frameworks they should have built six months ago.

The gap between "we're piloting AI" and "we're operating AI in production" is widening fast. That gap is compliance architecture, operational resilience controls, and governance patterns that scale beyond proof-of-concept.

At QikAI, we're seeing CIOs and Chief Risk Officers ask the same question: how do we compress 18 months of compliance theatre into three months of production-ready architecture?

The answer determines whether you're deploying agents in Q2 or still explaining your pilot roadmap in Q4.

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