If you had to follow a bank's strategy on basically anything, would you follow Goldman or Barclays?

Well the real question is: Is this about using AI, or switching from public AI to private AI, or about Anthropic having access to confidential information of their own underwriter?

If only there was a way to find out what the linked article is about. I'll go ask Claud if there are any ways to do that.

Since they're handling the IPO I guess they know the only way they can make the numbers make sense, is if Claude becomes another avenue of harvesting personal info.

I've seen people feed contracts and medical reports into LLMs

Maybe not Goldman.

But DEFINITELY NOT Barclays.

Right if you had to pick a big bank that didn't die in 2008 but nonetheless should not be followed on anything.. Barclays is top 3 for sure.

Deutsche Bank is number one this list.

LOL yeah.. I mean.. yeah.

Yeah, that’s implied

DB failed upwards. They couldn't fail, they were far more systemically important than Lehman or Bear.

They've been in business longer than the USA's existence, they must be doing something right - some 336 years ago.

Uhh... colonial empire? For those unaware, one of France's largest banks, BNP Paribas is also an old colonial bank from... wait for it... Netherlands! Paribas stands for "Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas". For those unaware, the old French term for the Netherlands (Holland) is the low countries, which is literally "Pays-Bas" in French.

To be fair, UK's #1 talent and economic advantage for global commerce in 2026 is their contract law and the courts that judicate it. It is unmatched globally. Sure, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Hongkong, and Singapore are pretty big, but nothing competes with London for international contract law. The ecosystem is just so massive and concentrated in London -- courts, highly experienced judges/barristers (lawyers)/academics.

> For those unaware, the old French term for the Netherlands (Holland) is the low countries, which is literally "Pays-Bas" in French.

"Netherlands" still means "low countries".

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What do you mean by that? https://nl-en.dict.cc/?s=neder https://nl-en.dict.cc/?s=nederig

Look no further than the recent email leak story. The tool is quite powerful and I can see the argument that at an enterprise / risk management level it should only be used by those capable of reviewing it.

Goldman any day, if you're asking based on their respective reputations.

Better not ask that question to Merrill Lynch circa 2006

> Barclays is moving in the other direction

> Barclays said in October that it expects half its developers to be using Claude Code by the end of the year, and three weeks later named developers among 5,000 job cuts. Like Goldman, it is giving coding agents to engineers. Unlike Goldman, it is also using them to reduce how many engineers it employs.

It says nowhere Barclay’s is permitting them to traders, just that they are - like Goldman - permitting them to developers, who they subsequently will be firing enmasse.