Data sovereignty and AI – the emerging fault lines in financial resilience

Alex Viall, chief strategy officer, Global Relay, and a frequent contributor to our information service, spoke to Kimberley Long, Asia editor, The Banker, at The FT Global Banking Summit 2025.

The discussion started with a question about data sovereignty, a topic that has recently become a key concern not only for financial institutions, but also for any companies with customers outside their home country.

According to Viall, the issue of data sovereignty has been “emerging for a while” but came

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