When compliance becomes abundant

If you create the record, bank the benefit

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What happens when automated supervision itself becomes cheap enough to apply almost everywhere? Chartered financial planner Matt Lynch looks at the issues...

Imagine a complaint several years from now. An automated check could have been run across the client file at negligible cost, but the firm did not run it. The obvious question is: why not?  Anthropic's launch of Claude for Financial Advisors makes that question more plausible. It is aimed at the US adviser market, but the change in the economics of supervision is not jurisdiction-specific.  That change is already moving quickly: Intelliflo's 2026 Advice Efficiency Survey found artificial intelligence use among advice firms had risen from 43% to 74% in a year, with note-taking and tran...

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