Agentic Finance AI Improves Efficiency With Governance

Finance leaders and vendors emphasize governed agentic finance AI after an FT Longitude survey of 200 US, UK, French, and German finance leaders found 61% have deployed AI agents only as experiments and one in four lack practical understanding. Vendors are launching invoice-lifecycle and supplier agents using generative AI and NLP to automate workflows, but firms will scale autonomy only with explainability, auditable trails, central policy engines, and clear ROI targets.