AI agents are changing lending systems - is your technology ready?

Experts from Alfa, Salesforce, VIP Apps Consulting and specialist finance examine what happens when AI becomes the interface to your lending systems – and what you need to prepare.

AI agents are starting to work directly with a platform’s data and workflows, operating within its existing permissions. The loan management system still holds the records and controls, but users may increasingly access it through an agent. Your next technology decision could change how colleagues use the systems you already own.

For lenders, that raises questions about access, accountability and control. For LMS providers, it changes how their capabilities reach users. Adding individual tools through APIs is one step; allowing agents to work across a system’s functions presents a broader set of opportunities and decisions.

“Where lending tech is going: the headless stack” examines this shift in the Technology stream at the Finance Connect UK Autumn Conference. Richard Huston, CEO of Vamos and AI advisor to Finance Connect, leads the session, drawing on Salesforce’s approach to opening platforms to agents and asking how far specialist finance is following.

Alex Vinall, Head of Solution Architecture EMEA at Alfa, joins the panel to examine the implications for lending platforms.

Alongside perspectives from Salesforce, consulting and lending, the discussion will address where agent-accessible LMSs stand today, what lenders are building on their own data and what providers need to make possible.

Our expert panel includes:

David Liversidge, Industry Advisor, Banking – Salesforce Inc.
Daypesh Patel, Managing Director – VIP Apps Consulting
Alex Vinall, Head of Solution Architecture EMEA – Alfa
Dominic Hughes, Director, Asset Finance Academy, and former Managing Director of BPCE Equipment Solutions
Moderated by Richard Huston, CEO – VAMOS, and AI advisor to Finance Connect

In this session you will:

See how Salesforce’s approach connects agents with platform data, workflows and permissions — and what it signals for lending technology.
Know where agent-accessible LMSs are developing and the opportunities and challenges for lenders and providers.
Anticipate how this shift could change your technology priorities, supplier conversations and preparations for AI.

View the full Finance Connect UK Autumn Conference 2026 agenda here.

Register here: https://afcconferenceuk.com/financeconnectautumnconference2026/en/page/book-now

The Finance Connect UK Autumn Conference 2026 is supported by Odessa as Event Partner, with Alfa as Headline Sponsor of the Asset Finance community stream and Dancerace as Headline Sponsor of the Receivables Finance Connect Conference.