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The Bank of England and FCA AI survey finds 80% of UK financial firms have AI agents deployed, but only 2% report agents with broad autonomy.

Sutherland will engineer, deploy and run FlowX.AI agents for banks, insurers and other regulated firms in North America and Europe on outcome-based pricing.

TruAgents, which runs compliant one-to-one AI conversations for insurers, has raised a $3.4m seed round led by ManchesterStory with Unum taking part.

World ID for banking and finance combines the World ID app, World ID for Zoom and World ID for Agents to help banks counter deepfakes and impersonation.

The FCA has set out good practice and areas for improvement on AI in financial services, covering the Consumer Duty, governance and operational resilience.

FIS has opened its AML Investigations Agent, built with Anthropic, to any US bank, with analysts still required to confirm every case before closure.

The HKMA's ART framework adds AI supervisory guidance, a training data platform and plans for a discussion paper on governing agentic AI in banks.

CoreWeave’s customer concentration and debt-funded expansion give bank boards a live case for combining credit, provider, market and operational AI risk.

The Bank of England’s bare-metal recovery focus moves AI cyber resilience beyond prevention and asks whether critical banking services can be rebuilt from trusted components.

The FSB has finalised 12 sound practices for responsible AI adoption by financial institutions, urging boards and senior managers to use them in governance.

Treasury has announced more than $1.21bn in penalties against Bank of America over AML and sanctions failures, including unreported suspicious activity.

Chargebacks911 has appointed Kount founding CEO Brad Wiskirchen as chief commercial officer and CEO of Fi911 to drive M&A and global expansion.

Trulioo's Business Risk Horizon scores business customers with plain-English explanations, and an unnamed AI lab is using it to vet access to its models.

Bind AI has launched publicly as an AI workforce for insurance brokers, backed by $10m and live with hundreds of agencies, from intake to binding.

Incode has launched TrustGraph, a biometric-anchored trust network that flags repeat fraudsters across institutions even with new names or devices.