Financial services didn’t get cautious by accident. Banks, insurers, and capital markets firms have learned—repeatedly—that the fastest way to turn a promising innovation into a headline is to let it outrun governance.
GenAI is no different. In most institutions, the gap isn’t “we don’t have models.” The gap is that we don’t have a trusted, permission-aware way to ground agents on enterprise knowledge—without quietly bypassing entitlements, data classifications, and audit expectations.
In this post, I’ll lay out what Azure Foundry IQ (Microsoft’s current naming is Foundry IQ inside Microsoft Foundry, formerly Azure AI Foundry) actually is, why it should matter to CTOs, CROs, and CISOs, and how its value shows up in business outcomes, business risk avoided, and compliance risk—specifically in Financial Services.
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