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 frames AI as an active part of the financial system and asks whether existing rules still fit that reality. Across industry coverage, firms report rapid adoption of generative and public LLMs by analysts and finance teams, creating 'shadow AI' risks in sensitive spreadsheets and workflows. Providers and banks warn the core operational problem is poor data and messy workflows, not a lack of AI tools, and regulators and RegTech vendors are urging firms to reassess market abuse controls, information barriers and compliance frameworks for agentic and generative AI. Executives from Bank of America, Billtrust and RegTech firms emphasize that fixing data and workflows must come before or alongside AI deployment to manage compliance and preserve trust.
Why it's trending
Because firms are already using public LLMs and generative AI in sensitive finance roles, regulators and vendors are racing to decide if current controls and rules still work.
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If you think banning ChatGPT will solve finance's AI mess, you've missed the point, the mess is data and workflows, not the model itself.
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FinTech GlobalJul 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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