AI-native legal services are moving from novelty to regulated reality in the UK, with the SRA authorising a second ‘technology-only’ firm while the bidding for collapsed Weil Gotshal’s data and tech assets shows how valuable legal data has become....
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AI in Finance: Today’s Top Stories — 13 November 2026
Regulators are the story this week. The Bank of England’s governor and the PRA chief warned of an AI-driven correction and rising AI-enabled cyber risk, just as UK firms report near-universal AI and agent adoption. Meanwhile, capital keeps flowing into AI-native...
AI in Finance: Today’s Top Stories — 10 November 2026
Banks are drawing a line around agentic finance: the UK’s five biggest lenders and major US banks are blocking outside AI agents from customer accounts while the FCA builds rules for agent identity and accountability. Regulators are simultaneously probing how...
AI in Law & Legal: Today’s Top Stories — 09 November 2026
Law firms are shifting from buying AI to building it, with A&O Shearman paying for its AI strategy largely in billable hours. Legal AI vendors are racing to own proprietary data and in-house workflows, while courts keep sanctioning lawyers for unchecked AI...
AI in Finance: Today’s Top Stories — 06 November 2026
AI is moving from pilot to balance sheet across UK finance: NatWest and Barclays are tying job cuts and new chief AI officer roles to AI, while insurance brokers and carriers are in open dispute over who bears AI liability. Meanwhile, UK wealthtech and insurtech are...
AI in Finance: Today’s Top Stories — 06 November 2026
UK regulators are moving from watching AI in finance to actively shaping it, with the FCA publishing good and poor AI practice examples and opening a new quantum-for-financial-crime programme. Meanwhile, labour-market data shows AI reshaping entry-level banking roles,...
AI in Finance: Today’s Top Stories — 03 November 2026
UK regulators dominated the week: the Bank of England and FCA’s joint survey shows AI is now near-universal in UK finance (86% of firms), yet agents are kept on a short leash and reliance on a handful of US vendors is raising systemic-risk alarms. Meanwhile,...
AI in Law & Legal: Today’s Top Stories — 02 November 2026
Legal AI is entering a consolidation and mass-rollout phase: Harvey is buying engineering talent while Legora signs up Jones Day’s 2,500 lawyers and Linklaters goes firmwide. In the UK, the conversation is shifting from adoption to accountability, with warnings...
AI in Law & Legal: Today’s Top Stories — 02 November 2026
Legal AI is now a capital-markets story and a regulatory-boundaries story at once. Legora’s mega-round shows investors still pricing legal AI at software-giant multiples, while UK bodies (the Civil Justice Council, the judiciary, the Law Society, the SRA) are...
AI in Law & Legal: Today’s Top Stories — 30 October 2026
Regulators and courts are tightening the screws on AI accountability, with the SRA moving to bake AI competence into solicitor standards and a US appeals court removing a judge over hallucinated citations. At the same time, the commercial race is shifting to workflow...