Dhaka, May 8 -- The next financial crisis may not begin with a housing bubble or a sovereign default. It may begin with a line of code-executed flawlessly, at scale, and entirely without human hesitation.

Agentic AI-systems that do not merely assist but act-marks a decisive break from the past. For decades, finance has digitised, automated and accelerated. But it has remained, at its core, a human system: analysts interpret, traders decide, risk managers approve. Even the most advanced algorithms have largely operated within human-defined boundaries.

That boundary is dissolving.

Agentic AI can monitor markets, rebalance portfolios, assess creditworthiness, initiate payments and adapt strategies in real time-without waiting for human in...