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  <description>Longer-form thinking on banking transformation, organisational design, credit risk, embedded finance and regulatory change.</description>
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    <title>Consumer Duty, Business Architecture and the Evidence Tax</title>
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    <description>Consumer Duty isn't testing products, it's testing organisational design. Why the hardest part of proving good customer outcomes is finding the evidence.</description>
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    <title>Agentic lending doesn’t break underwriting. It breaks the audit trail.</title>
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    <description>Automated lending is decades old. Agentic lending is different. When a system gathers its own evidence and acts in milliseconds, the question is whether anyone can reconstruct the decision.</description>
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    <title>Credit underwriting is a craft. A pure science can’t lend.</title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description>Banks are handing lending decisions to machines and calling it progress. But lending was never a problem with a right answer waiting to be calculated. This is the long version of why.</description>
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    <title>Embedded FinTech: why value chains, not banks, are the new battleground</title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description>Embedded finance is not about blurring boundaries between banks and platforms. It is about where the margin goes, and who is built to capture it.</description>
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