Ronald Kruszewski
Chairman & CEO at Stifel Financial
What so what I see happening is productivity increases where we, you know, we can continue to grow and not, you know, driving profitability by reducing workforce, but by, you know, being able to be much more efficient and reassign people to to other tasks, whether it's in, again, onboarding, marketing, compliance, you know, AML, investment banking, analytics, all of these things, which I frankly you know, I I read what you're doing over at Goldman as well. And I I see it, and the the key is is to train people and to to make sure that you know, my concern would be that we somehow work to a lowest common denominator, which can be AI. I mean, my my goal is that AI is an amplifier, not a you know, not just something that you just plug in and and people can, you know, work from home. That's not the viewpoint here. And so we see and I personally see big efficiencies, not just at Stifel, but across the industry, in productivity.