AI Fraud Now Outpacing Defences, Say 76% of UK Financial Crime Leaders Who Have Encountered It
UK financial crime decision-makers are struggling to keep pace with AI-enabled fraud.
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The FCA's Mills Review signals support for agentic finance while raising expectations around AI governance, accountability and Consumer Duty compliance.
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13 JUL 2026
The Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority have set out how they will share responsibility for regulating the largest stablecoins, with the Bank taking the backing assets and the FCA keeping conduct and consumer protection.
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Buy now, pay later becomes a regulated product in the UK on 15 July, and the most demanding part of the new regime lands on the smallest purchases.
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Aviva, one of the UK's largest pension providers, is moving to deliver financial advice and guidance at scale under Britain's new Targeted Support regime, in one of the first big provider deployments since the rules took effect.
10 JUL 2026
An independent evaluation of the UK's mandatory reimbursement rules, published by the Payment Systems Regulator on 1 July 2026 and carried out by Frontier Economics, has found the regime cut authorised push payment scam losses by around 21%, worth an estimated £73 million a year, in its first year.
10 JUL 2026
FCA’s Mills review says retail financial services are moving towards AI-enabled and delegated journeys, raising questions over advice, redress, Big Tech and supervision.
6 JUL 2026
Pay.UK is giving firms more control over the cash they set aside for Faster Payments, potentially widening direct access while increasing the need for accurate forecasting and real-time oversight.
3 JUL 2026
FCA cuts stablecoin capital requirements and confirms UK authorisation opens 30 September 2026. Read how the dual FCA-BoE regime will work.
1 JUL 2026
FinTech North returned to its original Leeds venue to celebrate a decade of growth and consider how the region can attract more investment, talent and expanding fintech businesses.
26 JUN 2026
Bank of England asks the UK payments industry how a new national system should support bank transfers, checkout payments and digital money.
25 JUN 2026
Six major UK banking groups are preparing to test a voluntary digital verification service that would let customers use information held by their bank to prove details such as their name, age or address online.
25 JUN 2026