By Alex Smith |
SAS and Microsoft will examine how financial institutions can turn AI insights into business actions while maintaining trust, governance and transparency at Sibos 2026 in Miami in a session titled ‘The Missing Link Between AI Insight and Action’.
The discussion will take place on 30 September at 11 am at Microsoft’s booth and will focus on the role of trust in helping financial institutions move from fragmented AI deployments to broader adoption.
Among the topics of discussion will be a new SAS report developed with research insights from IDC, which shows that banks with trustworthy practices built into their AI strategies are 6.6 times more likely to see a return on their AI investments.
“Financial institutions need to be able to trust their AI enough to act on it,” said Diana Rothfuss, director of global strategy and innovation for risk, fraud and compliance solutions at SAS. “This confidence is what moves organisations out of silos and into widespread adoption, which empowers them to go from analysing to acting.” The companies will also discuss the use of AI in fraud and anti-money laundering, with Microsoft experts joining SAS for a session focused on how financial institutions can anticipate emerging threats. The session will take place at the SAS booth on 30 September at 9 am.
“We see a lot of organisations implementing AI in fragments across their business,” said Anita Kannan, director of global financial services partner strategy at Microsoft. “By connecting their data and AI across risk, fraud and compliance, they can respond more quickly and transparently to customer and regulatory challenges.”
SAS experts and its strategic partners will also participate in four official Sibos sessions covering payments, agentic AI, fraud and financial crime. These will include a session on 28 September examining how AI can help financial institutions extract greater value from ISO 20022 data, followed by discussions on agent economics and the impact of AI agents on enterprise operations, and the use of AI-enabled attacks such as deepfakes. The final session, on 1 October, will bring together SAS and KPMG leaders to examine the relationship between fraud and anti-money laundering signals.