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AI governance built for the recordkeeping
examiners already expect.

FINRA's own 2026 report found firms deploying generative AI faster than they can govern it. Cortega gives you the supervision, model-access controls, and audit trail examiners are already asking about, enforced before the call completes rather than reconstructed after.

What financial services AI programs are running into

Adoption is outrunning governance.

Deployment is ahead of controls

FINRA's 2026 Regulatory Oversight Report flags firms using generative AI without the controls, supervision, and recordkeeping discipline expected in regulated markets.

Existing rules already apply

GLBA, SEC, and FINRA don't have AI-specific rules yet, but regulators are clear that existing security, supervision, and recordkeeping obligations already cover AI tools.

AI governance is moving into exams

Regulators are folding AI governance into examination priorities. Firms need to show disciplined implementation, not just experimentation.

Account data is ending up in prompts

Customer account numbers, balances, and payment details can end up inside a prompt to a model with no controls around where that data goes.

What Cortega does for financial services

Supervision and evidence, built into the traffic path.

Deterministic PCI-relevant detection

Local, rule-based detection for payment card numbers, bank account numbers, and IBANs, plus general PII. Requests are blocked or masked before they leave your network.

On-premises, vendor-neutral control plane

Runs inside your infrastructure. Nothing about your trading, account, or customer data routes through a Cortega-hosted cloud.

Model and provider access control

Set per-team, per-agent allow/deny lists for which models and providers can be used. This is the supervision layer regulators are asking about.

Continuous, tamper-evident audit evidence

Every policy decision, whether it's allowed, blocked, redacted, or approved, is recorded continuously and hash-chain verified so it's ready for an examiner.

Approval tracking on high-stakes actions

High-risk actions get a documented approval decision, with identity and rationale attached. That's supervision you can show, not just claim.

Enforced budget and spend controls

Real-time budget caps by team or project, so AI spend doesn't become its own ungoverned line item.

Built for regulated industries

Governance controls mapped to the frameworks your examiners already ask for.

What's included today

  • On-premises deployment: account, trading, and customer data never touch a Cortega-hosted system.
  • Deterministic PCI/PII detection, not a probabilistic best guess.
  • Enforced, real-time budget and model-access controls by team.
  • Continuous, tamper-evident audit evidence for examiners.
  • Approval decisions tracked on high-stakes actions, with full audit trail.

What we're building toward

  • Expanded financial-entity pattern packs, beyond today's card, bank, and IBAN detection.
  • Governance controls aligned to NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001.
  • Expanded certification assistance for customers preparing for their own exams and audits.

Governing AI in a regulated financial environment?

Tell us what's in scope, whether that's trading tools, customer-facing chat, internal copilots, or model access across teams, and we'll show you exactly where Cortega fits.

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