FCA Plans to Automate Supervision With AI, Holds Off on Rules for Chatbots
Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority plans to automate more of its supervision and enforcement work with artificial intelligence. It is also not preparing AI-specific rules for the firms it oversees, and its data chief told lawmakers that the agency wants to become an “agentic regulator.”
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In practice, the FCA is changing how it conducts supervision, not announcing a new rulebook for the market. What stays the same is that the regulator is still not writing AI-specific rules for the firms it oversees, even as it describes itself as moving toward an “agentic regulator.”
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