<h1>Cloud AI and GenAI speech-analytics partnership raises data-residency, privacy, liability and auditability issues under RBI/SEBI/IRDA rules</h1> A cloud AI infrastructure provider and a GenAI speech-analytics vendor announced a commercial partnership to deploy end-to-end voice analytics across banking, insurance and financial services, enabling monitoring of 100% of customer calls, real-time agent guidance, sales optimization and compliance checks. The offering is hosted domestically to satisfy data-residency and sectoral regulatory requirements (RBI, SEBI, IRDA) and emphasizes enterprise security, scalability and integration with contact-center/CRM systems. Legal considerations include data-protection and privacy compliance for mass call analysis, contractual allocation of liability for AI decisions and breaches, cross-border dataflow restrictions, regulatory auditability of models, and vendor due diligence for enterprise deployments.