FSI Sydney 2026: Reimagining Dealmaking in the Era of AI
Lean Australian fintech Baron Joey built AI into M&A dealmaking without a large AI budget.
“I disassociate the word artificial from AI. It is better described as amplified intelligence.”
Baron Joey, a six-year-old digital-native financial services firm in Australia, presented a practitioner case study at AWS FSI Sydney 2026 on deploying AI in corporate finance and dealmaking with minimal budget. Their CTO and a corporate finance principal jointly credited low tech debt, centralized data, and employee openness to change as key enablers. The framing of AI as 'amplified intelligence' — still requiring human direction and sign-off — is a notable messaging stance but the session content cuts off before substantive technical or workflow details are shared.