Autonomous
Economy.
AASHIESH (ASHISH) CHOPRA

Order the book

Autonomous Economy · Aashiesh Chopra

Search for the book on your preferred store. Direct ordering links are pending.

Search Amazon

Published on LinkedIn

Insights

Writing for leaders making decisions about banking, AI, and programmable finance.

Start Here

Who should be accountable when an AI agent acts for a bank?

An AI authority map gives leaders a way to ask what machines may decide, under whose authority, and who remains accountable.

The Board’s New Responsibility: Its Decision History
· LinkedIn

Browse by topic

Operating Economics

AI FinOps Is Becoming Workforce Economics. Are Banks Ready?

· LinkedIn

How should a bank authorize, control and measure the economic value of AI-agent work? The article gives CFOs, CIOs and CROs a shared framework for the decisions before, during and after execution.

Read on LinkedIn

Agentic Commerce & Programmable Finance

When Every Transaction Becomes a Negotiation

· LinkedIn

Payments are one step in a larger decision. The article explains how an agent could compare financing, settlement and other terms within a mandate before money moves.

Read on LinkedIn

Governance & Decision Rights

Human-in-the-Loop Is Not a Strategy

· LinkedIn

Uses a hypothetical treasury payment to distinguish receiving an alert from being able to stop the action. Introduces a tiered model for delegating authority.

Read on LinkedIn

Customer Relationships

One Customer. Ten AI Agents. Who Owns the Banking Relationship?

· LinkedIn

When customers delegate financial decisions to several agents, banks may have to earn permission to act one decision at a time. The article introduces Mandate Share.

Read on LinkedIn

Customer Relationships

Banking’s ChatGPT Moment: When Customers Stop Searching and Start Asking

· LinkedIn

Shows how questions about buying a home or managing cash flow could move the customer journey from product search to financial intent.

Read on LinkedIn

Agentic Commerce & Programmable Finance

Meow: When Money Becomes Infrastructure, Not a Product

· LinkedIn

Uses Meow to examine how banking, treasury, payments and stablecoins can fit into one financial operating layer.

Read on LinkedIn

Operating Economics

Replacing the Core Will Not Create a Real-Time Bank

· LinkedIn

Separates core replacement from the system of action needed for real-time banking. A strong read for CEOs and CIOs evaluating modernization investments.

Read on LinkedIn

Governance & Decision Rights

Your AI Denied the Mortgage. Can Your Bank Prove Why?

· LinkedIn

Uses an AI-assisted lending decision to show why institutions need to reconstruct how a decision was made.

Read on LinkedIn

Customer Relationships

Nubank’s Balance-Sheet Playbook: How Trust Became a Funding Strategy

· LinkedIn

Shows how a customer relationship can become a source of deposits and funding economics. The takeaway applies to midsized banks and credit unions.

Read on LinkedIn

Operating Economics

The Data Divide: Why Banking Leaders Must Fix Data Before Scaling AI

· LinkedIn

Offers a 90-day plan to prioritize data, govern one high-value domain and test it in delivery.

Read on LinkedIn

Agentic Commerce & Programmable Finance

Why End-of-Day Banking Is Becoming Obsolete and Why Continuous Banking Will Power the Age of Agentic Commerce

· LinkedIn

Connects continuous liquidity, settlement and control to the economics of agentic commerce.

Read on LinkedIn

Research Horizons

Emerging questions in financial technology and institutional readiness.

Research Horizons

Quantum Computing: Banking’s Greatest Threat or Greatest Opportunity?

· LinkedIn

Explores what quantum computing could mean for banking, from preparing cryptography for a post-quantum future to researching possible applications in optimization and liquidity.

Read on LinkedIn

Follow the conversation

Connect on LinkedIn