Odaily Planet Daily News: Nathan McCauley, Co-Founder of Anchorage Digital, announced on X the launch of Agentic Banking, designed to provide AI systems with compliant and governable access to funds, including identity verification, policy control, and settlement capabilities across both crypto and traditional financial systems, enabling AI to directly participate in economic activities within regulated frameworks. Built on its U.S. federally chartered crypto bank license, the system delivers a compliant "execution layer" that ensures transactions feature access controls, real-time risk management, and auditability.
Nathan McCauley added that the financial system is entering an "age of autonomy," where AI is transitioning from a decision-support tool to an autonomous agent capable of executing workflows, participating in negotiations, and conducting operations on behalf of institutions. The current financial system is not yet prepared for "non-human participants," lacking identity frameworks for AI, mechanisms for strategy execution, and compliant channels for accessing funds, forcing institutions to balance automation against risk.
Anchorage has previously partnered with Google Cloud, which will build an "intelligent layer" to enable discovery, collaboration, and decision-making among AI agents, while Anchorage handles fund execution and settlement, driving the migration of institutional-grade digital asset infrastructure to the cloud by integrating custody, key management, transaction governance, and staking capabilities to help financial institutions embed stablecoins and digital assets into their products.