UK regulators dominated this week’s finance AI agenda. The Bank of England and FCA published their 2026 survey showing near-universal AI adoption, and the FCA chief warned that AI is amplifying financial crime and market risks. The common...

AI is moving from pilot to infrastructure across finance this week, with banks like Bank of Ireland embedding it in fraud detection and customer guidance while deepfake and agent-impersonation threats force new identity defences. Deal teams are...

UK regulators are shifting from watching AI to actively shaping it: the FCA and Bank of England’s survey shows 86% of UK financial firms now use AI, while the FCA has said it will not write AI-specific rules and is already building agentic...

Financial services has moved from AI experimentation to deployment. The FCA and Bank of England’s joint survey reports 86% of firms now using AI, and regulators are focused on accountability, agentic finance and consumer disclosures. Banks...

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...

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...