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MUFG builds internally compliant version of Claude Code

Japanese bank says Anthropic’s coding and productivity tool is effective at obtaining information but bucks compliance guardrails, prompting the creation of an in-house alternative.

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Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has designed a proprietary version of Anthropic’s Claude Code AI harness because the coding tool was too effective at accessing information and bypassing the bank’s security and compliance guidelines.

Stu Taylor, the bank’s new head of global markets AI for all regions except Japan, tells WatersTechnology that while the AI tools the bank utilizes are all human-in-the-loop, public agentic AI “harnesses”—tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot

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