Brief, mostly facts
New Relic finds 22% of financial firms run agents unmonitored
The 2026 Financial Services Observability Forecast calls the gap phantom velocity. The figures are from New Relic's own survey.
What the research found
New Relic 2026 Financial Services Observability Forecast finds 22% of financial firms run AI agents in production without monitoring, which it calls phantom velocity.
Claims and how well the evidence supports them
- 22% of financial services companies have deployed AI agents in production without monitoring 99%
- Survey covers 278 financial services respondents within a 2,575 global study 99%
- Financial services detects outages in 35 minutes and resolves them in 49 minutes 99%
Evidence
- mediabrief.com https://mediabrief.com/22-of-finance-firms-lack-ai-agent-monitoring-new-relic
Actionability rated low.