BMO Capital Markets AI Leader to Headline Panel on AI Agents Transforming Financial Services

AI agents have been taking the financial services industry by storm, changing how banks gather information, improving back-end operations, speeding up processes and enhancing customer and employee relations. Armando Benitez, the Chief Data & Analytics Officer and Head of AI at BMO Capital Markets, is at the forefront of this transformation and will be the lead speaker of a panel discussion titled AI In Finance: How autonomous agents are changing financial services at the upcoming Benzinga Fintech Day & Awards on November 10, 2025. Benitez leads a team of engineers, strategists and AI professionals who create end-to-end solutions at the intersection of finance and technology, making him ideally suited to discuss AI's impact on financial services.

The panel discussion will cover specific functions AI agents are currently handling in banks and fintech organizations, how financial institutions measure ROI and productivity improvements from deploying AI agents, and where AI agents have directly led to better fraud prevention or compliance outcomes. Additional topics include the biggest risks or concerns stakeholders have about deploying agentic AI in finance, human/AI collaboration in financial workflows, and the biggest innovations and changes expected in AI finance for 2026. The panel will include AJ Audino, Head of Enterprise Growth at Perplexity, Lava CEO & Founder Mitchel Jones, Adam Dell, CEO of Domain Money and Adam Heimann from True Trading Group, moderated by Tommy Cotter, head of product at Benzinga.

The discussion will give attendees deep insight into how banks are leveraging AI today and how they will do so in the future to streamline business processes, boost productivity and enhance employee relations, all while improving customer service and loyalty. These AI agents are constantly evolving and promise to revolutionize the financial services industry by transforming how banks operate behind the scenes and interact with customers. The panel is geared toward anyone interested in learning how AI is transforming the banking industry now and what impact it will have in the coming years as financial institutions continue to integrate artificial intelligence into their core operations and customer-facing services.