Jouk
Pleiter
You can rent the intelligence.You cannot rent the accountability.
For more than two decades, Jouk Pleiter has helped banks evolve from closed institutions to digital, customer-centered enterprises. The next evolution is agentic banking and the question he can uniquely own is how banks can turn intelligence into trusted action.
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AUTUMN 2026Every bank is investing in AI, but few can scale it operationally. AI Waits for No Bank gives readers the blueprint for a model where AI can do more of the work while banks stay in control; turning intelligence into trusted action.
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Jouk Pleiter is the founder and CEO of Backbase, and one of the original architects of modern digital banking. For more than two decades he has helped banks evolve from closed institutions into customer-centered digital enterprises.
He is now defining the AI-native Banking OS that lets banks put agents to work while retaining confidence, control, trust and accountability.
