Research archive
Every Frontier Finance AI piece, grouped by section.
Everything published on Frontier Finance AI, grouped by section. Newest pieces are first within each section.
Regulation
How the rules for AI in finance are being written across Africa and Asia.
- The Enforceability Premium: Reading the 2026 Global Index on Responsible AI: what the GIRAI 2nd Edition means for African financial regulators, the fintechs they license, and the capital watching both. July 2026
- South Africa Has Africa's Best AI Rulebook. Its SMEs Still Can't Follow It.: a GSMA study of 200 AI-active South African firms finds the problem was never the law. July 2026
- India vs Kenya: Two Ways to Regulate AI in Finance: two dynamic markets, one problem (AI giving financial advice), and almost opposite tools. July 2026
- Why an AI Financial Adviser Can't Legally Advise in Kenya (Yet): where "education" ends and licensed "advice" begins. June 2026
AI Indices
Reading the global benchmarks closely.
- The Enforceability Premium: Reading the 2026 Global Index on Responsible AI: 135 countries, 68,000+ data points, and a wide gap between commitment and implementation. July 2026
- Africa on the IMF's AI Preparedness Index: What the Numbers Show, and What They Miss: the IMF scored 174 economies on AI readiness. Is it measuring the right things? July 2026
Field Notes
Lessons from building AI for finance in emerging markets.
- The Frontier Is the Lab: A Note on Building AI for Finance in Emerging Markets: promise and peril in roughly equal measure. July 2026
- What Building an AI Financial Analyst Taught Me About Thin-Data Markets: what happens when the assumption that the data is there quietly breaks. June 2026