FCA’s Mills Review Casts AI as Part of the Financial System, and Asks Whether the Rules Still Fit
What's happening
The FCA's Mills Review calls for the UK to treat AI as an integral part of the financial system, focusing on regulation, accountability and consumer protection. Related coverage flags broad industry pressure points: the Bank of England warns AI adoption could threaten financial stability; banks and vendors say poor data and broken workflows, not AI alone, are the real operational risk (Bank of America, Fynapse, Billtrust themes). Meanwhile practitioners report 'shadow AI' use, with analysts sending sensitive spreadsheets to public LLMs because internal tools feel clunky, and wealth managers worry AI will erode traditional informational advantages (fincite).
Why it's trending
Regulators have published high-level AI warnings and reviews while practitioners keep relying on public LLMs and struggling with bad data and workflows, making the gap between rules and reality acute.
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Calling AI a systemic risk while analysts paste sensitive spreadsheets into ChatGPT is putting the cart before the horse, the real crisis is broken data and terrible workflows, not LLMs by themselves.
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- Why AI could strip banks of their last advantage
For decades, banks built their wealth management business on knowing more than their clients. According to fincite, that advantage has already slipped away, and the industry is asking the wrong questions about what comes next. Friedhelm Schmitt, co-founder and CEO of fincite, argues that the debate around AI in wealth management is fixated on tools, […] The post Why AI could strip banks of t
FinTech GlobalJul 23 - Bad Financial Data Is AI’s Biggest Liability
Watch more: Summer School With Fynapse’s Ben Catterall Artificial intelligence may dominate boardroom discussions, but payments companies face a more basic challenge. They already possess enormous amounts of financial data. The harder task is turning that information into something finance teams can trust. That theme anchored the latest installment of the PYMNTS Summer School series, […] The
PYMNTSJul 23 - The shadow AI problem in banking is getting out of hand
Every fintech consultant is dealing with the same issue where analysts use public LLMs for sensitive financial spreadsheets. They do this because internal corporate tools feel incredibly clunky to use. I was reviewing some system architectures from Avenga to see how they resolve this without ruining productivity. Instead of banning AI tools outright the best path is building private by design alte
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