AI in Trading 2026: Agents everywhere vs rationed autonomy – do you know who is on the other side of the trade?
Use of AI agents are spreading fast – but still only in certain areas as regulators increasingly question whether there are sufficient controls The Bank of England and FCA survey found 80% of UK firms running agents but only 2% granting broad autonomy. Jefferies mapped US brokers opening up to agents, Robinhood reported around 200,000 […]
AI in Trading 2026: Autonomous or Pre-Approved? Agents split as regulators step up
Agentic execution splits in two – LLMs trading autonomously versus GenAI-configured, pre-approved workflows – while global regulators move further in defining agent identity, authority and accountability Last week the FSB and MAS set out how AI in financial markets should be governed. This week the FCA announced their plans to build a trusted framework for […]
AI in Trading 2026: From regulating agents to trading processes
AI is moving from side projects into the investment and execution workflow itself – this week the FSB, standards bodies and the banks all set out what it takes to govern it AI dominated the IMF and World Bank meetings in Bangkok this week. HSBC’s Michael Roberts told Bloomberg he expects agents to be trading […]
AI in Trading 2026: Here come the regulators
From Singapore to Brussels and the US, the message this week was the same – accountability for AI cannot be handed to the model or the firm that built it – it sits with the user This week represented yet another week of warnings not to trust AI, many of them from the people who […]
AI in Trading 2026: Capability does not equal Green to Go
As agents increasingly go mainstream, capability does not equate to authority – meaning can the desk keep up with the necessary governance as well as the infrastructure All AI eyes were back on Washington this week. On 29 September President Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to call AI “Super Intelligence”, and the […]
AI in Trading 2026: Agentic Trading Moves Ever Closer
What are the implications for the industry now? All AI eyes this week were on the US. The Chinese state visit was dominated by the tech bros, and OpenAI joined the call for US-led global AI standards, with Sam Altman briefing the UN Security Council after the outcry over safety. The UK prime minister used his first […]
AI in Trading 2026: Agents in Moving Markets
How market structure shifts could impact agentic rollouts Price sits at the centre of every best execution policy, every TCA pack and every algo wheel, and all of them assume one official number per market. Europe spent a decade building a tape to provide it, and it went live on 14th September with roughly 130 sources feeding […]
AI in Trading 2026: Europe Builds a Benchmark & Execution Continues to Shift to Vendors
The Consolidated Tape arrives on schedule: the harness, the agent inventory and the safety assurance all belong to somebody else. Europe gets its first official reference price on September 14th and Washington has started dismantling its own. It lands in a week when the Bank of England set out why the machinery around a model is the firm’s own responsibility […]
AI in Trading 2026: The Harness, the Outage, and the Company That Got Hacked Being Bought for $12.9bn
The control point is moving from the model to everything around it: the harness, the interface, the repository and the network. On Wednesday the FCA and the Bank of England published their findings on how firms are using frontier AI for cyber defence, and where it is straining them. On Thursday OpenAI released a model […]
AI in Trading 2026: A Global Regulatory Approach is Emerging
ASIC arrives at the same checklist while the US stays silent, as agents increasingly become a market participant no-one can yet audit This week Australia became the sixth jurisdiction to tell boards to decide who is in charge of Frontier AI usage before the incident rather than during it, Fidelity research highlighted the growth and […]