By Meg Flippin Benzinga

ZINGER KEY POINTS:

• Armando Benitez, CDAO and Head of AI at BMO Capital Markets, will lead an AI in Finance panel at the Benzinga Fintech Day & Awards.

• AI Agents are taking the financial services industry by storm, transforming how banks operate behind the scenes and with customers. 

• The panel discussion will include executives from Perplexity, Lava, Domain Money and True Trading Group to discuss AI agents and finance. 

DETROIT, MICHIGAN - November 5, 2025 (NEWMEDIAWIRE) - AI agents have been taking the financial services industry by storm, changing how banks gather information, improving back-end operations, speeding up processes and enhancing customer and employee relations. But they aren’t stopping there, these AI agents are constantly evolving, promising to revolutionize the financial services industry. 

Armando Benitez, the Chief Data & Analytics Officer (CDAO) and Head of AI at BMO Capital Markets, is at the forefront of this transformation and will be on hand at the upcoming Benzinga Fintech Day & Awards on November 10, 2025, to share his thoughts on AI in financial services. Benitez is the lead speaker of a panel discussion titled AI In Finance: How autonomous agents are changing financial services. 

How Banks Can Leverage AI 

Benitez leads a team of engineers, strategists and AI professionals who create end-to-end solutions at the intersection of finance and technology. As CDAO, Armando shapes the strategic vision for data and analytics, integrating AI into business processes to drive innovation and improve decision-making. That makes him ideally suited to field questions along with the panel that includes executives from other fintechs.  

Some of the topics that will be covered during the panel discussion include: 

• Specific functions AI Agents are currently handling in banks and fintech organizations.

• How financial institutions measure ROI and productivity improvements from deploying AI Agents.

• Where AI Agents have directly led to better fraud prevention or compliance outcomes.

• The biggest risks or concerns stakeholders have about deploying agentic AI in finance.

• Human/AI collaboration in financial workflows — what works and what needs improvement.

• AI Finance in 2026: the biggest innovations and changes on the horizon.

The panel will also include AJ Audino, Head of Enterprise Growth at Perplexity, Lava CEO & Founder Mitchel Jones, Adam Dell, CEO of Domain Money and Adam Heimann from True Trading Group. The panel will be moderated by Tommy Cotter, head of product at Benzinga.

Get A Deep Dive Into AI And Finance 

The panel discussion will give attendees deep insight into how banks are leveraging AI today and how they’ll do so in the future to streamline business processes, boost productivity and enhance employee relations, all the while improving customer service and thus loyalty.

The panel discussion is geared toward anyone interested in learning how AI is transforming the banking industry now and what impact it will have tomorrow.

Learn more about the upcoming Benzinga Fintech Day & Awards here.

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