Banking On Resilience In The AI Era: Why 2026 Is Different
F5, Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
Instant payments are now the norm, outages are more visible and more costly, and artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from experiments to production across banking and financial services intuitions.
At the same time digital sovereignty is gaining momentum, and regulators are turning up the heat on operational resilience, led by initiatives like the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and similar efforts in other regions.
Against this backdrop, Celent's new upcoming F5 sponsored report, Banking on Resilience: Building a Resilient, Intelligent Bank in the AI Era, explores how resilience is reshaping technology strategy and what banks need to do next. The report will be released next month; this blog offers an early look at a few of the key findings.
The central question for every bank and financial services institution is simple: Is resiliency a top strategic imperative for my organizations in 2026-especially given heightened outage risk, digital sovereignty trends, and AI moving into production?
The data says yes.