Citigroup bans third-party AI agents from customer accounts; BofA and JPMorgan follow
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-10-17
Per the Financial Times, Citigroup now bars third-party AI agents from logging into customer accounts or moving money on its digital banking platforms.
- Bank of America has imposed similar limits, joining JPMorgan Chase, which is restricting outside AI agents after Jamie Dimon warned that thousands of "rogue agents" could otherwise operate inside the bank.
- The deeper threat, the author notes, is how institutions define and police these unauthorized automated actors.
A notable first wave of account-level blocks on third-party agents by major banks, marking a new security boundary in the agent era.
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