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Private AI for banks, insurers and financial firms

Client records, credit files and trading data are the last things you want in a public AI tool. We supply right-sized on-premise AI hardware, and our partners deploy open-weight LLMs on it inside your own data centre, so your data never leaves your building.

Secure server cage overlooking a financial district skyline at night

The risk

Why finance data should not go to public AI tools

  • Staff paste client, account and deal data into public AI chat tools (shadow AI)

  • Cloud AI services can count as outsourcing and add third-party risk reviews

  • Customer data may be processed or cached in other countries

  • Model behaviour and data handling are hard to audit inside a third-party service

Use cases

What teams run on it

Open-weight LLMs deployed by our partners, working on your documents inside your network.

01

Policy and regulation search

Ask questions across internal policies, circulars and procedure manuals, and get answers that cite the source paragraph. Compliance and operations staff find the rule they need without sending documents to an outside service.

02

Credit and KYC file review

Summarise credit applications, financial statements and KYC documents, and flag missing items for an analyst to check. The files stay on your own storage and are processed on your own GPUs.

03

Report and memo drafting

Draft credit memos, board papers and client letters from internal data and approved templates. People review and sign off every draft; the model does the first pass.

04

Contact-centre assistance

Give agents a private assistant that searches product terms and past cases while they talk to customers. Call notes and customer details never go to a public AI provider.

05

Private coding assistant

Give developers code completion and review help on hardware you own, so proprietary source code and internal APIs are not shared with an external service.

Compliance context

Rules that shape where your data can go

On-premise AI helps support compliance by keeping processing on hardware you control. It does not replace your own legal and compliance assessment.

CBUAE Outsourcing Regulation for Banks

Banks must obtain the Central Bank’s prior non-objection before outsourcing any material activity, and must keep ownership of data given to an outsourcing provider. Running AI on your own hardware can reduce how much AI processing is outsourced in the first place.

UAE regulators’ guidelines on cloud computing

Guidelines for adopting enabling technologies, issued jointly by the CBUAE, SCA, DFSA and FSRA, ask financial institutions to assess the materiality of cloud arrangements and keep them auditable, secure and protected from unauthorised access. An on-premise AI platform keeps that evidence in-house.

DIFC Data Protection Law (DIFC Law No. 5 of 2020)

Firms in the Dubai International Financial Centre follow their own data protection law, supervised by the DIFC Commissioner of Data Protection. Transfers of personal data outside the DIFC need an adequate destination or appropriate safeguards, so on-premise AI keeps that analysis simpler.

ADGM Data Protection Regulations 2021

Entities in Abu Dhabi Global Market follow the ADGM Data Protection Regulations 2021. Its guidance covers impact assessments for high-risk processing, security of processing and safeguards for international transfers, all of which are easier to evidence when AI runs in-house.

This is general information, not legal advice. Rules change and depend on your licence, location and data. Ask your legal or compliance adviser which rules apply to your organisation.

Recommended starting point

Most finance teams start with the department bundle

Typically 25–200 users, running open-weight LLMs up to ~70B parameters. Every bundle is quoted to your users, documents and site.

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Most requested

Typically 25–200 users

Department bundle

Shared AI for a whole department, with several use cases on one platform.

Typical users
25–200
GPU class
4–8 data-centre GPUs
Typical model size
Up to ~70B
Storage
NVMe array
Form factor
Single rack server
See the department bundle

FAQ

Private AI for finance: questions

Does on-premise AI remove our outsourcing obligations?
Not automatically. Running models on hardware you own keeps AI processing in-house, which can reduce outsourcing and cloud arrangements. You may still use partners for installation and support, and your compliance team should decide how those services are classified under the Central Bank’s rules.
Can the system run without internet access?
Yes. Open-weight models run entirely on the local servers, so the platform can operate on an isolated network. Updates to models and software are brought in through your own change-control process, reviewed by your team and installed by our partners.
Which bundle suits a bank?
Most banks start with a Department bundle for one division, such as compliance or operations, serving up to 200 users. Group-wide rollouts with several business lines, fine-tuning and strict isolation between departments usually move to the Enterprise bundle.
How do you control who sees which documents?
Our partners connect the platform to your identity provider for single sign-on, and set role-based permissions on each document collection. The assistant only retrieves documents the user is allowed to open, and every query can be logged for audit.
Is this legal advice on our obligations?
No. We describe the rules in general terms to show where on-premise AI can help. Your legal and compliance teams, and your regulator, decide what applies to your institution. Private AI helps support compliance; it does not replace your own assessment.

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