The unlikely seaside town on frontline of AI threat

Bournemouth's Littledown campus, a former farm site, now hosts over 5,300 JP Morgan staff processing more than $1tn in global transactions daily, making Dorset one of Britain's largest financial hubs outside London. Regional finance centres face an existential AI threat as bosses weigh automating back-office roles, after Barclays announced 5,000 AI-linked job cuts and Standard Chartered planned 7,000.