Evident AI Index update

Who's winning the AI adoption race?

Evident AI Index update: Who's winning the AI adoption race?

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

15:00-16:00 BST / 10:00-11:00 EDT

Virtual Roundtable

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Alexandra Mousavizadeh

Co-founder & Co-CEO, Evident

Alexandra has spent the last 25 years ranking and quantifying complex societal and political forces. She started her career at Moody’s, then Morgan Stanley, later became CEO of ARC Ratings and then Director of the Prosperity Index. Most recently, Alexandra was a Founding Partner at Tortoise Media, where she ran Tortoise Intelligence, the Index and data business. Here, she was the architect of the groundbreaking Global AI Index, the first benchmark to track the strength of national AI ecosystems. She holds a degree in economics, mathematics and game theory from the University of Copenhagen.

Moderator: Colin Gilbert

VP, Intelligence, Evident

Colin leads Evident's Intelligence Team. focused on developing new content offerings and expanding our customer-facing diagnostics. Colin has spent the last 15 years working in Research & Advisory services, specializing in using quantitative benchmarking to measure an organization's digital aptitude vs. performance. Previously, he served as a Managing Vice President at L2 Inc. (acquired by Gartner in 2017), where he worked on the Digital IQ Index® as it expanded to cover nearly 1,500 leading brands across 15x B2C industries.

Daniel Shackleford

Managing Director of Banking, Evident

Daniel joined Evident in 2025 to lead its Banking business. Prior to joining Evident, he focused on designing and implementing advanced analytics and data transformation strategies for many of the world's largest financial institutions across EMEA and the Americas. His experience includes roles at Oliver Wyman and Deutsche Bank. He is also a qualified lawyer.

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Summary

In this virtual roundtable, we explored the latest data from the October 2025 Evident AI Index ranking to answer three key questions:

Where are banks in their journey to AI maturity?
How has this changed over the past year?
Which banks are surging ahead?

Over the past twelve months, AI maturity has advanced significantly across the 50 global banks tracked in the Index. The index average continued its upward trend, with the top cohort of banks accelerating at more than twice the overall rate of the wider Index.

This year marked a decisive shift from ideation and experimentation to large-scale implementation, as a growing number of banks began to quantify and disclose business outcomes from their AI investments. The leading institutions are demonstrating not just technological sophistication but also organizational transformation—reconfiguring their operating models, deepening talent pools, and embedding AI-first strategies into every layer of their business.

At the same time, the gap between leaders and laggards is widening. Top performers such as JPMorgan, Capital One, and RBC remain firmly in front, powered by relentless innovation, aggressive hiring, and advanced deployment of generative and agentic AI. Others, including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and Goldman Sachs, have rapidly climbed the ranks through enterprise-wide rollouts and a stronger external narrative around AI transformation.

Meanwhile, banks in Europe and the UK face increasing pressure to compete with their North American counterparts, who benefit from proximity to the deepest AI talent and technology ecosystems.

Overall, the 2025 Evident AI Index underscores a new phase in banking’s AI evolution: one defined by tangible returns, measurable outcomes, and clear strategic intent. The conversation made it clear that banks now see AI not as a technology project but as a business imperative, one that will define competitiveness for years to come.

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