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ARTICLE · 13 NOVEMBER 2026

FinTech Global FS Regulatory Round-up - w/e 23 October 2026

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Global financial regulators are intensifying their focus on artificial intelligence governance, with the FCA publishing comprehensive guidance on AI adoption in financial services while announcing plans to develop frameworks for autonomous AI agents. Simultaneously, authorities across multiple jurisdictions are advancing digital asset regulation, cryptoasset perimeter guidance, and tokenization initiatives as the financial services landscape undergoes rapid technological transformation.

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In this edition we round up FinTech-related financial services regulatory developments for the week ending 23 October 2026.

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FCA: Mansion House dinner

The FCA has published an address by its CEO, Nikhil Rathi, at the Mansion House dinner. In Mr Rathi's address, he explained the regulator’s approach to market integrity in the context of developing technology, financial crime and system-wide risks. The FCA is focusing more strongly on outcomes, making more use of technology and intelligence, and using its existing powers more assertively. Priority areas include, among others: concentration risk and risks arising from decentralised finance; and AI. Among other things, Mr Rathi noted that the FCA intends to use AI tools to improve supervisory risk assessments,

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