Finance
German Watchdog Warns Banks of AI Industry Concentration Risks
AI adoption can further cement lenders’ reliance on foreign tech giants.
Photographer: Alex Kraus/BloombergGermany’s financial watchdog warned the country’s banks that they face risks from the increasingly opaque ties between companies driving the artificial intelligence boom.
“We’re currently observing the development of both vertical and horizontal connections which are hard to see into from the outside,” Nikolas Speer, the head of banking supervision at BaFin, said at an online conference on IT resilience on Thursday.