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Tom Callway, VP of Product Marketing, Kyriba, on why finance leaders are turning to trusted, explainable AI for real-time decisioning. Trusted Intelligence in Action
By Susan Galberaith
F inance and treasury leaders are moving from pilot experiments in AI to confronting a structural shift in how work gets done. Trust will determine who ac- celerates to achieve competitive advan- tage and who stalls. To explore what this inflection point means in practice, SAP- insider sat down with Tom Callway, Vice President of Product Marketing at Kyriba, to understand how he sees AI adoption advancing in finance and treasury and how agentic AI will change the way these teams operate and work together. 2026: The AI Inflection Point for Finance For years, most office of the CFO teams treated AI as an overlay on analytics, not as an operational engine. In interviews and survey data, leaders routinely report “using AI,” including SAPinsider’s own Office of the SAP CFO Report where 69% state they are using AI in Finance. In practice, what adopters really mean is they use descrip- tive dashboards, anomaly flags, or experi-
mental pilots that never leave the lab. Callway urges that 2026 marks an in- flection point where AI shifts from sidecar analytics to integrated operating models running inside core treasury and finance platforms. As he puts it, even historically conservative adopters are now crossing a line, “Even risk-averse users are adopt- ing AI now, because if you don’t start adopting it, you can’t compete, that’s the reality.” For CFOs and treasurers, that in- flection point shows up as pressure from boards and CEOs to match competitors’ productivity, speed, and risk visibility, not just experiment with proof-of-concepts.
“If you don’t start adopting AI, you can’t compete, that’s the reality now.” Tom Callway
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