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AI in UK financial services: FCA, PRA and BoE’s pro-innovation approach, Treasury Committee critique, and priorities for guidance, stress testing and the critical third parties regime

Published on: 05 March 2026

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The review extends the FCA's Artificial Intelligence Lab work and reiterates its often-stated view that current regulatory regimes strike a fair balance: granting firms room to innovate and compete through AI, while retaining enough supervisory bite to control risks arising from deployment.

The call for input sets out four linked themes that interrelate closely:

  • the trajectory of AI technology, encompassing more capable, autonomous and agentic systems
  • the prospective effects of AI on markets and firms, including shifts in competition and market structure and dynamics
  • emerging consumer patterns, covering how AI might enhance outcomes, introduce novel risks, influence behaviours and reshape the demand and delivery of financial services, and
  • future regulatory responses, including how regulators may need to adapt to keep retail markets functioning well

That last theme is, by some distance, the most contentious point raised. While the financial regulators appear presently committed to a pro-innovation yet risk-aware stance, the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee warns this course could cause serious harm to consumers and the wider financial markets. So what is the optimal route for oversight in this constantly evolving space, one that endures?

The regulators' position: pro-innovation and opportunities

It is no secret that the UK financial...

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