AI agents route your money to better deals — banks' lazy-cash moat is breaking
LexSokolin · x · 2026-09-28
Fintech commentator Lex Sokolin endorses Austin Campbell's take: banks have been ripping off customers, AI agents realize it, and agents now route customers to better products.
Campbell's original post asks how this could possibly be a net negative—people getting better deals and earning interest on their own money. Sokolin adds: "It's your money, it does not belong to the box you put it in." The exchange highlights a real coming conflict: consumer-side AI agents that auto-shop and move funds will erode the banking business model built on inert deposits.
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