Financial regulators testing AI
Supervisors building ways to test and approve AI in regulated finance.
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Facts
- Lane
- Finance and capital allocation
- Wave
- 7 of 12 (build order, not a date)
- Needs
- 0 boxes all the way back through hard links
- Unlocks
- 2 boxes downstream through hard links
- Leverage
- 0.2 points · stands in the way of 1 of 53 stages · rank 41 of 57
- Cluster
- Science and medicine
Evidence as of October 2026
The FCA’s AI Live Testing programme began in December 2025 with NatWest, Monzo, Santander and Scottish Widows among the first cohort.
Around it
Needs · 0
Nothing beyond the detail list. It can start at any time.
Openings researchers' judgement, October 2026 scouting
Startup room 71/100 · rank 6 of 124 Research room 57/100 · rank 39 of 124
- Depth
- light
- Players
- FCA AI Live Testing (Barclays, Lloyds, UBS, Experian); Advai (FCA assurance partner)
- Wedge
- Test methods and assurance for agentic AI in regulated finance beyond human-in-the-loop, paired with marketstab as a correlation-and-assurance layer. startup