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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Revolut and the Disappearance of Banking

Monday, May 11, 2026

As Revolut transforms finance into a frictionless digital experience, banking increasingly moves away from geography, institutional presence and procedural trust toward interface-driven systems organised around speed, mobility and continuous connectivity.

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ING and the Industrialisation of Banking

Saturday, May 9, 2026

As banking becomes increasingly digital, global and platform-driven, institutions such as ING are evolving from traditional financial intermediaries into continuously connected infrastructures organising financial flows, behavioural data and algorithmic risk interpretation at industrial scale.

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