AI Crispy Talks
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This is one of the clearest fault lines of the agentic AI era: the technology assumes an agent can act on your behalf, but banking infrastructure was never built to distinguish a user from the user's software. The detail that some agents accessed accounts without direct instructions explains why banks are reacting fast — credential sharing breaks every security assumption, and liability for a bad transfer remains genuinely unresolved. Read-only access is a sensible interim compromise, though it guts much of the value proposition of a financial agent. The real fix is scoped, revocable delegation — an OAuth-style trust layer for agents — and whoever ships it first, banks or agent makers, will define how agentic finance actually works. Until then, expect more lockouts.
Major US banks are locking out AI agents that log in with customer credentials Customers are letting AI agents use their credentials to access accounts at Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, and other major U.S. banks, sometimes without direct instructions. Morgan Stanley has blocked agents, while other banks are restricting access. Most plan to limit agent…

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