AI in Finance Report 2026

AI in Finance Report: what CFOs really think about artificial intelligence

Welcome to our barometer of AI in finance teams. Every year, we ask CFOs across Europe’s leading economies how their view of this technology is shifting and, above all, how they’re putting it to work: what they expect from it, what concerns them, and what still holds them back from trusting it with their data and, ultimately, their money. Their answers come together in our annual report, and the 2026 edition is now available: the cost of falling behind

AI is already a high priority for 56.7% of respondents, yet nothing tests trust quite like a real-world scenario. So this year, we put a question to 300 CFOs: in the middle of the night, their AI agent spots an opportunity to optimise €500,000 in surplus cash, with no one there to supervise it. Holding back means losing it. What would they do? Download the report to find out.