Overview
Exponential AI is becoming a major issue for financial services. It affects banks, regulators, financial institutions, risk teams, technology teams, leaders and professionals across the industry.
That is why CFTE has made this course free. Our objective is simple: help more people understand what is happening, why Mythos is only the signal, and why the industry needs to prepare for many more Mythos moments ahead.
If you find the course useful, please share it with your colleagues, your team and your network. The more people understand Exponential AI, the better prepared the financial services industry will be.
What this course does:
From fragmented signals to structured understanding.
This is not a generic AI course. It gives finance professionals, regulators and institutional leaders a structured lens for interpreting, responding to and making decisions about Exponential AI.
Before:
Seeing fragmented AI headlines without a coherent frame.
Interpreting change through a linear lens that underestimates pace.
Remaining an observer while decisions affecting your institution are made.
After:
Understanding why AI capability is compounding and what that means structurally.
Applying an exponential lens to interpret signals, decisions and risks.
Knowing how to begin rethinking strategy before the next capability jump arrives.
Course Description & Learning Outcomes
What you will understand:
A mindset and strategy course for professionals who need better judgement, not technical training.
1. Exponential versus linear progress
Explain why AI progress is better understood through an exponential lens and what that means for how fast institutions must adapt.
2. Reading capability signals
Understand why frontier models represent a broader signal of compounding capability, not isolated launches.
3. The preparedness gap
Recognise why institutions that default to linear thinking are structurally underprepared.
4. Why leaders must be at the table
Understand that not being part of the response is not a neutral position. It is a risk.
5. CDE as a strategic lens
Use the CDE Innovation Prism to move beyond efficiency and ask what AI makes newly possible.
6. Regulation and response
Understand how regulators and supervisors are responding and where the institutional tensions remain.
Schedule
Date: 25 Jun 2026, Thursday
Time: 11:32 AM - 12:32 PM (GMT +8:00) Kuala Lumpur, Singapore
Location: 32 Carpenter Street, 059911
