FCA: AI Sprint
FCA has just published the results of the AI Sprint, held in January 2025. The AI Sprint discussed the opportunities and challenges of AI in financial services, with 115 participants taking part from across industry, academia, regulators, technology providers and consumer representatives. FCA has summarised feedback received alongside the responses to the AI Input Zone. FCA is reviewing this feedback to consider how it can further support firms looking to adopt AI in a safe and responsible way and encourage beneficial innovation and growth. A blog by FCA’s Head of Innovation Services accompanies the summary.
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See allPRA: PS10/26: Amendments to Resolution Assessment threshold and Recovery Plans review frequency
Further to CP14/25, this PS provides feedback and final policy. The policy in this PS will take effect on 1 April 2026.
HMT: Joint EU-UK Financial Regulatory Forum
HMT has published a note of the meeting held on 11 March 2026. Topics included: policy and macroeconomic/financial stability outlooks; banking; digital finance; markets reform, and sustainable finance.
PRA: Speech by Vicky White: Data as a dialogue
Text of Vicky White’s speech of 12 March 2026 follows in which she discusses data collected from banks by PRA and how this feeds in to supervisory decisions, risk assessment, and policy.
BoE: Speech by Andrew Bailey: Reforming cross-border payments
Text of Andrew Bailey’s speech of 12 March 2026 follows in which he discusses progress on the G20 Cross-border Payments Roadmap.
FCA: UK MiFID transparency calculations
FCA has updated its webpage with the latest results of the annual transparency calculations for equity and equity-like instruments for the UK.