The Black Box Bank

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

ABN AMRO proudly reports that 85 percent of its employees now use artificial intelligence in their daily work. For investors, this signals efficiency and progress. For society, it raises a more difficult question: as banks become increasingly automated and opaque, who remains responsible for transparency, accountability and the human beings behind the data?

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Who Protects the User?

Tuesday, May 12, 2026
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As platform finance replaces visible institutions with interfaces, support systems and computational enforcement, Europe faces a deeper question beyond crypto itself: how do democratic societies preserve responsibility, care and accountability inside financial infrastructures that increasingly operate beyond human visibility?

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The Algorithmic Bank

Saturday, January 24, 2026
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House prices in the Netherlands are rising, according to ABN Amro. As soon as the bank announces these predictions, markets react. To many, it seems like a simple economist with a spreadsheet. But behind the scenes, another mechanism is at work: algorithms processing data, detecting patterns and forecasting future trends.

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