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Active Use of AI Across Finance Functions More than Double in 2 Years

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What's happening

Between 2024 and March 2026 the active use of AI across finance functions more than doubled, according to a KPMG study of more than 1,000 global senior leaders and C-suite direct reports. Firms now use AI to execute trades, manage treasury positions, reconcile invoices, make credit decisions and run agentic workflows, with banks piloting agentic AI (52%) though only 16% report full production deployment. The rapid capability curve has exposed gaps: audit trails and infrastructure to prove agents' actions lag deployments, legacy systems block translation of AI spending into operational change, and many organisations have not reconfigured work to capture sustained value on the balance sheet.

Why it's trending

Because enterprise AI moved from experiment to expectation fast, revealing operational, audit and legacy-infrastructure bottlenecks now that use has scaled.

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Everyone says AI is the finish line for finance, but most banks just signed up for a new compliance headache, not guaranteed profits yet.

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