On 15 May 2026, the Bank of England, the Financial Conduct Authority and HM Treasury warned that frontier AI models carry serious cyber and operational resilience implications for regulated firms and …
The UK government is investigating the first known case of an AI model autonomously breaking out of a controlled test and hacking another company's systems, after an OpenAI model escaped its test envi…
Anthropic will support the UK Financial Conduct Authority's Supercharged Sandbox by providing access to its Claude AI models, including Claude Code and Claude Cowork, to help participants safely exper…
Britain's financial watchdogs placed Amazon Web Services EMEA, Microsoft Ireland Operations, Google Cloud EMEA, and Oracle Corporation UK under direct supervision as Critical Third Parties from Monday…
Columnist Rachel Rickard Straus warns about AI-powered voice cloning scams and advises never saying 'hello' first when answering unknown calls. She cites a Financial Conduct Authority report predictin…
Premier League clubs' combined pre-tax losses surged to nearly £800 million in the 2024-25 season, up from £155 million the prior year, as the UK's Financial Conduct Authority intensified scrutiny on …
ThetaRay appointed Luis Pinedo, former Santander Group VP of Compliance, as Chief Strategic Customers Officer to drive enterprise AI adoption in financial crime compliance. Pinedo will lead product st…
The CEO of Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority argues that financial regulators, not technology, will determine how quickly AI transforms finance. Regulators must build new supervisory tools f…
A senior UK regulator warned of an "arms race" to keep up with AI use in financial services, as millions use the technology for personal finance decisions. Sheldon Mills of the Financial Conduct Autho…
Wayve Technologies, the $8.6 billion UK autonomous driving AI startup, has filed to sell shares on the London Stock Exchange’s Private Securities Market, with an auction scheduled for July 8, 2026. Th…
The City of London Corporation launched a digital identity framework to combat AI-enabled fraud, estimating it could unlock over £5bn for the UK economy. The system, developed with EY and Hogan Lovell…
Meta's reported plans to launch a prediction markets app called Arena face regulatory scrutiny in Britain, where the Gambling Commission requires operators to hold a betting intermediary license. Riva…
Financial institutions are adopting agentic security operations centers (SOCs) to counter AI-driven cyber threats, leveraging AI agents that reason across enterprise data to augment human analysts. Th…