When banks can't get enough real transaction data past compliance, synthetic clones become the training-data vendor of last resort — and potentially a lucrative one. If agentic AI systems in banking scale on synthetic corpora rather than licensed real-world data, that reshapes who gets paid: less to data brokers holding sensitive financial records, more to synthetic-data generation shops.
Worth watching whether regulators treat synthetic training data as a compliance workaround or a new liability.
Synthetic Data & Agentic AI in Banking: Banks Send in the Clones