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Scale AI confidently and responsibly, unlocking meaningful customer value, efficiency and sustainable growth across your enterprise

AI has the potential to transform financial services, with many organisations eager to harness its potential. Yet, despite AI's promise, many enterprises find themselves at a crossroads. They can continue down the IT-led path, where AI lives as a series of disconnected pilots, or pivot to a business-driven approach that makes AI a true growth engine.

AI pilots are popping up across every UK financial institution, but most are still stuck in the lab; delivering presentations rather than real-world impact. The firms that win won't be the ones with the most pilots, but the ones that turn them into scaled, compliant, revenue-generating capability.

Putting this into context:

Pilots Without Progress

70%

Over 70% of AI initiatives have failed to scale and deliver enterprise-level outcomes.

Deloitte: 2024 State of Generative AI in the Enterprise

Unclear Strategic Alignment

75%

Only a quarter of organisations have a clearly defined AI strategy aligned to business outcomes.

Thomson Reuters: 2025 Future of Professionals

Lack of Value Realisation

65%

65% of organisations are unable to measure and communicate value from their gen AI initiatives.

Deloitte: 2024 State of Generative AI in the Enterprise

Why Shifting From Experimentation to Adoption Can't Wait

The early advantage of "testing" AI has gone. UK banks, insurers and wealth firms are already wiring AI into core journeys; from fraud and claims through to onboarding and advisory. If you're still tinkering in pilot mode, you're losing ground to competitors who are quietly scaling.

POCs absorb budget and talent but don't move the dial on cost-income ratios or growth. Until AI is deployed into live operations, it's not improving productivity, reducing risk, or generating new revenue. The financial upside only lands when AI becomes business-as-usual across the estate.

The FCA, PRA and ICO are moving from guidance to expectation on data use, model governance and accountability. Firms have a short window to put a robust, compliant AI operating model in placce before rules bite. Delay now means costly remediation later, under greater scrutiny.

UK consumers and businesses now expect intelligent, joined-up, always-on services. If AI stays stuck in the lab, experiences will feel outdated and trust will migrate to providers delivering personalised, proactive interactions as standard.

Navigating Common Challenges Impacting Momentum

Too often, AI initiatives are misaligned with business goals, built on legacy foundations, and delivered without clear governance or measurable value. Without a business-first approach, AI projects risk becoming just another costly experiment that frequently fails to deliver meaningful business outcomes, as the foundational capabilities and organisational readiness required for true value realisation are lacking.

When AI projects fail to deliver clear business value or lack connection to strategic goals, they not only erode trust with stakeholders but also jeopardise future investment. The path to realising value from AI is fraught with challenges, each of which must be addressed proactively to prevent loss of momentum and avoid wasteful consumption of limited resources.

Common Challenges Include:

Turning Promise into Performance

To fully realise AI's transformative potential, organisations must shift from an IT-centric adoption model to one that is owned and driven by the business. This means cultivating business-technology partnerships, upskilling business leaders, and building the foundational data and change management capabilities needed to turn AI investments into real, measurable outcomes.

Organisations must embed AI in a way that aligns with customer value and regulatory obligations from the outset, helping them move beyond proofs of concept to deliver AI solutions that are explainable, scalable, and tightly linked to strategic outcomes.

By taking a holistic, business-first approach and focusing on organisational readiness, financial institutions can move beyond pilots and proofs of concept to realise genuine, sustainable value from their AI investments, turning promise into performance and competitive advantage.

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