Scotiabank has launched an AI framework, Scotia Intelligence, for data and AI operations that joins various platforms, data oversight, and software tools into a single instance. According to a press release from the bank, the stated purpose of Scotia Intelligence is to give employees, especially client-facing teams, access to AI under the bank’s existing governance and security rules. Scotiabank has published a short data ethics commitment paper , the existence of which is unique in Canada, the bank says. Tim Clark, Scotiabank’s group head and chief information officer, said Scotia Intelligence is a new approach that combines the bank’s existing infrastructure with AI abilities that connect computing environments, governance, and security so employees can use the technology more confidently. The difficult problem in the financial sector is how to make AI tools available at enterprise scale without creating new operational and regulatory risks for the organisation.…