Examiner Press
An independent publisher of practitioner nonfiction for banking, credit unions, and financial technology. We publish books written by people who have sat on both sides of the examination table, for the people who have to make the decisions.
Catalog
Published titles
Examiner Press publishes a small, deliberate list. Every title carries its own ISBN prefix under the imprint and is distributed to the trade and to libraries through the standard wholesale channels.
Know Your Agent
The Governance Standard for AI in Financial Services
Financial institutions already know how to vet a customer, a business, and a vendor. Know Your Agent extends that same discipline to artificial intelligence, and argues that it begins earlier than most institutions expect: not when the tool arrives, but with Know Your Enterprise. The book gives boards, risk committees, and operating teams a governance standard they can actually run, drawn from sponsor banking, credit union cores, and top-tier bank practice, and written for institutions of every size.
| Publisher | Examiner Press |
|---|---|
| Publication | July 21, 2026 |
| Trim | 6 × 9 in. (152 × 229 mm) |
| Extent | 282 pages, 16 figures |
| Language | English |
| Subjects | Business & Economics / Banks & Banking · Business & Economics / Corporate Governance · Computers / Artificial Intelligence |
| Distribution | Trade and library wholesale, Amazon, Barnes & Noble |
| Foreword | Syed M. Raza, former Acting Chief Innovation Officer, OCC |
Booksellers & Libraries
Ordering and trade terms
Examiner Press titles are available to the trade in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Canada, and Australia. Retailers, wholesalers, and libraries order by ISBN through the wholesale account they already use. No separate publisher account is required, and no minimum order applies.
- Trade discount
- 40 percent, non-returnable, on all print formats.
- Library and institutional
- Hardcover and library-priced ebook editions are listed for institutional purchase and are available through standard library supply channels.
- Course adoption and bulk
- Bulk orders for boards, conferences, training cohorts, and staff distribution are handled directly. Write to press@examinerpress.com with quantity, format, and delivery date, and we will quote and route the order.
- Review copies
- Print and digital review copies are available to reviewers, conference programmers, and trade and financial press on request.
Rights & Permissions
Licensing and reuse
Examiner Press controls world rights in all languages and formats for the titles on its list. Inquiries are read and answered by a person.
Translation and foreign rights
Available in all territories and languages. Send territory, language, format, and proposed print run to rights@examinerpress.com.
Subsidiary rights
Audio, serial, book club, and custom or sponsored editions are handled case by case. Corporate and association editions with a custom foreword are possible.
Permission to quote
Brief quotation for review, scholarship, training, or regulatory commentary is generally granted at no charge with attribution. Send the passage, the context, and the audience.
Reprint and excerpt
Requests to reprint a chapter, figure, or appendix in a journal, courseware, or internal program should include the intended distribution and duration.
Attribution. Please cite as: Stephen Bishop and Tony del Fierro, Know Your Agent: The Governance Standard for AI in Financial Services (Examiner Press, 2026), with page number where applicable.
About the imprint
Why Examiner Press exists
Most of the useful thinking in financial services never becomes a book. It stays in a deck, a policy draft, or an exam response, and it dies there. The people who understand a problem well enough to write about it are usually the same people with no time to navigate an eighteen-month acquisition cycle, and by the time a traditional publisher would have the book on a shelf, the regulation it was written for has already moved twice.
Examiner Press was built for that gap. We publish practitioner nonfiction for banking, credit unions, and financial technology at the speed the subject actually changes, with the production standards of a trade house: real ISBNs, professional typesetting and figures, hardcover and paperback and ebook editions, and full trade and library distribution.
The name is the point. An examiner asks a specific question, expects a specific answer, and is not satisfied by intent or by a slide that says the institution takes something seriously. That is the standard we hold our books to.
Editorial focus. Governance, risk, compliance, and technology adoption inside regulated financial institutions. We are interested in books that a board, a risk committee, or a first-line operator can act on, and not interested in books that only describe a trend.
Contact
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Rights & permissions
rights@examinerpress.comTranslation, subsidiary rights, reprint, and permission to quote.
Press & trade orders
press@examinerpress.comReview copies, media inquiries, bulk and institutional orders, author interviews and speaking.
Submissions. Examiner Press publishes its own list and does not accept unsolicited manuscripts, proposals, or queries. Material sent to the imprint will not be read, retained, or returned.