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AI Cash-Sorting Tools

SCHWAB CHARLES CORP · 2026-10-17 · Importance 25 · Surprise 42

CEO Rick Wurster said retail clients using artificial intelligence for trading are holding more cash than other active traders. These clients connect their own large language models to Schwab through application programming interfaces and a managed client-platform layer. The reported behavior indicates that AI-assisted trading has not reduced brokerage cash balances for this client subset and may increase cash retention.

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