AI is moving from pilot to infrastructure in finance: HSBC’s markets chief predicts AI will do much of the trading within years, while HSBC and other banks open their data to clients’ own AI agents. Regulation is shifting at the same time, with the...

UK regulators and finance firms are reorganising around AI this week. The FCA is moving to become an ‘agentic regulator’ without writing new AI rules, and it has just finished a Palantir pilot on financial crime data. Meanwhile, banks are hiring for...

This week’s finance AI news is dominated by systemic risk: the Bank of England’s governor warned of market shocks if the AI boom corrects, while insurers are retreating from AI exposure in standard policies. Meanwhile banks such as Barclays and Lloyds are...

Capital and regulation are converging on agentic AI in finance. Mega-rounds like Ramp’s $60bn valuation show investors still pouring money into AI-driven fintech, while London’s insurance market is moving to narrow cyber cover until it can price agentic AI...

The Bank of England has put AI-related debt and circular financing squarely on the financial stability agenda, showing that AI’s impact on finance now covers systemic risk as well as productivity. Alongside that, banks are shifting towards on-premises and...

This week’s dominant theme is AI frontier models and agentic platforms moving from pilots to live production inside financial services — with Google’s Gemini 4 Argon promising to reshape how banks and insurers handle financial analysis, Mastercard and...