AI for Financial Services & Banking

AI for Financial Services & Banking is the RiseCert Industry Track for banking, lending, insurance, and wealth management professionals. Five video courses follow the shape of your institution, from the client conversation to the credit memo and the examination file, and show exactly where AI earns you time and where your judgment, your regulatory duties, and your client relationships stay in charge. Every lesson is written for advisors, lenders, analysts, operations staff, and compliance teams, not technologists, and every example is a real-world scenario from a supervised institution.

You will learn where AI is actually landing across lending, advisory, payments, servicing, and the back office, and the regulatory frame around it, including fair lending, adverse-action reasons, vendor models, and examination-ready records. You will let an AI assistant take the first pass on meeting prep, commentary, and client messages while every duty attached to advice stays with you. You will recognize the four families of AI-enabled fraud and defeat them with out-of-band verification, dual control, and blame-free reporting. You will apply model risk management to AI tools you didn’t build, test fairness, and keep documentation that survives an exam. And you will finish with an analysis standard that keeps AI-assisted research, reporting, and forecasting accurate, auditable, and independent.

What’s included

• AI in Financial Services: The New Landscape — where AI is landing across four fronts of the institution, the regulatory frame as of September 2026, fair lending and adverse-action reasons, vendor models, and the everyday rules for working in an AI-enabled institution. 15 lessons.
• AI for Client Advisory & Relationship Management — preparing meetings from the file, writing commentary and client messages in your own voice, accurate records, the rules on advice, marketing, data, and supervision, and a redesigned advisory week. 15 lessons.
• Fraud & AI-Enabled Financial Crime — the four AI-enabled attack families, out-of-band verification, dual control, document checks by source, blame-free reporting, and the first three incident actions for your role. 15 lessons.
• Compliance & Model Risk in an AI World — model risk fundamentals applied to AI, inventorying and tiering AI uses, validating vendor models, testing fairness and adverse-action reasons, and documentation that holds up in an exam. 15 lessons.
• AI-Powered Analysis: Research, Reporting & Forecasting — AI for research, credit memos, models, board reporting, and forecasting, recomputing every figure, labeling period, entity, and basis, and a pre-delivery checklist for every deliverable. 15 lessons.

How it works

Each course runs as three modules of five focused lessons, around four to five minutes each, with a knowledge check after every lesson. Watch on any device at your own pace and earn a certificate for each completed course. The full track is 75 lessons and about 6 hours of video, designed to fit around client meetings and reporting cycles over a few weeks.

Who it’s for

Relationship managers, advisors, lenders, analysts, operations and servicing staff, and compliance and risk teams at banks, credit unions, lenders, insurers, and wealth managers who want to use AI to do more for clients without putting the institution, its customers, or its examination record at risk. New to AI? Start with the RiseCert AI Foundations bundle, then take this track.

This track is training, not legal, regulatory, or investment advice. Your institution’s policies, your regulators’ guidance, and applicable law govern how AI is used in your role.