{"id":226915,"date":"2026-03-24T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/hsbc-appoints-ai-chief-in-newly-created-role\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:25:17","slug":"hsbc-appoints-ai-chief-in-newly-created-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/hsbc-appoints-ai-chief-in-newly-created-role\/","title":{"rendered":"HSBC Appoints AI Chief in Newly Created Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finews.asia\/people\/44798-hsbc-david-rice-mario-shamtani-artificial-intelligence-chief-ai-officer\">HSBC Appoints AI Chief in Newly Created Role<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finews.asia\/people\/44798-hsbc-david-rice-mario-shamtani-artificial-intelligence-chief-ai-officer\">https:\/\/www.finews.asia\/people\/44798-hsbc-david-rice-mario-shamtani-artificial-intelligence-chief-ai-officer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-24 00:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.finews.asia\">www.finews.asia<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"display:none;\">HSBC Appoints AI Chief in Newly Created Role<\/h2>\n<p><strong>London-based HSBC has created a new artificial intelligence role as part of broader efforts to deploy the technology at scale.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HSBC has appointed <strong>David Rice<\/strong> as chief AI officer, according to a statement, in a newly created role to provide clear enterprise leadership for adoption of the technology within the bank. Rice was previously the chief operating officer for HSBC\u2019s corporate and institutional banking business.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment is part of broader efforts to make generative AI tools available to all staff to \u00absimplify processes, procedures and policies, and equip customer-facing colleagues with the AI tools they need to deliver more personalized services\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abOur customers increasingly expect their bank to deliver services uniquely aligned to their specific needs, and fast. That\u2019s why we\u2019re building a bank that is designed for the future,\u00bb said HSBC CEO <strong>Georges Elhedery<\/strong>. \u00abAI plays a key role in how we get there.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p><strong>CTO\u2019s Expanded Remit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition, chief technology officer <strong>Mario Shamtani\u2019s<\/strong> remit has also been expanded to strengthen the bank&#8217;s technology foundations to deploy AI at scale, which includes modernizing core platforms, building a central AI platform for staff to access a range of models and leading key strategic partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abOur ambition here is simple \u2013 we will empower our colleagues to use AI to create a personalised experience for each customer, deliver it safely, in real time and at scale, while keeping human judgement, decision-making and accountability at the core,\u00bb Elhedery added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.finews.asia\/people\/44798-hsbc-david-rice-mario-shamtani-artificial-intelligence-chief-ai-officer\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HSBC Appoints AI Chief in Newly Created Role https:\/\/www.finews.asia\/people\/44798-hsbc-david-rice-mario-shamtani-artificial-intelligence-chief-ai-officer Publish Date: 2026-03-24 00:14:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226916,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.finews.asia\/images\/news\/2026\/03\/dc72a20d22286350b8d96bcdbb0bbd3b_w500_h300_cp-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,19],"class_list":["post-226915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-generative-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226917,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226915\/revisions\/226917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}