Finextra Analysis: Agentic Banking Could Trigger Flash Crashes — Synchronized AI Agents Drain Liquidity in Minutes

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A Finextra analysis warns that when banking AI agents share similar models and data, a single macro signal could trigger rationally identical responses that amplify beyond the system's capacity. Portfolio AI optimizing simultaneously for risk-adjusted returns could collectively drain equity market liquidity in minutes — crowding into identical defensive assets and triggering flash-crash conditions at speeds no regulatory circuit breaker was designed to catch. Based on current trajectories, 94% of banks are on course to fail at agentic AI implementation.