Industries · Finance & banking
AI that keeps client and market-sensitive data inside the firm.
Financial firms run on information that must not leave their control: client records, positions, and material non-public information. A cloud AI tool puts all of it in the hands of a third party. Air-gapped AI keeps it where it belongs.
The specific risk
Material non-public information does not survive contact with a cloud.
An analyst pastes deal notes into a cloud AI tool to draft a summary. Those notes contain material non-public information. It now sits with an external processor on terms the firm did not set, outside the control environment the FCA expects the firm to maintain.
The work is legitimate and the time saving is real. The exposure is the problem, and it is avoidable. Run the model inside the firm and the same drafting happens without a single confidential record leaving the building.
Relevant solutions
Capabilities that fit a regulated firm.
Secure transcription
Advice meetings and committee sessions transcribed on the firm's own servers.
Learn more → READDocument processing & redaction
Classify and redact account documentation for regulatory requests, in house.
Learn more → UNDERSTANDPrivate knowledge base
Answer from product terms and prior advice without exposing client or market data.
Learn more →Compliance context
The obligations a financial deployment must respect.
FCA systems and controls
FCA rules require firms to maintain effective systems and controls over their data and operations. Introducing a cloud AI processor adds a third party to that control environment. Keeping processing on-premise keeps the firm in direct control of where data sits and who can reach it.
Client confidentiality & MNPI
Firms hold client information and material non-public information that must not reach an outside party. A cloud AI tool is an outside party. On-premise processing keeps confidential and market-sensitive data inside the firm.
UK-GDPR
Client records are personal data. Because the AI runs on the firm's infrastructure, Electric Azimuth is not a Data Processor for that processing — removing processor agreements and cross-border transfer questions from the picture.
Record-keeping obligations
Regulated firms must keep accurate, auditable records of communications and advice. On-premise transcription produces those records with a full audit trail held under the firm's own retention rules.
A realistic deployment
Anonymised · illustrative
A wealth management firm wants to transcribe client advice meetings to improve its records and reduce administrative time. Its compliance function rules out any tool that sends client audio to an external service, given confidentiality duties and FCA record-keeping expectations.
Electric Azimuth installs a transcription server inside the firm's network. Meetings are transcribed locally, producing accurate, auditable records held under the firm's retention policy, with the audio never leaving the building. The same boundary later carries document classification and a private knowledge base over the firm's own material.
Capture the time saving without the exposure.
Book a feasibility call, or request the briefing that maps Electric Azimuth to your confidentiality and FCA obligations.