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FCA Calls Rapid Regulation of Finance Chatbots Amid Trust Surge.

7/6/2026

Summary

Mills Urges Regulation

Sheldon Mills, FCA director, urged regulation of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini within three to six months.
He found a quarter of UK consumers trust these AI tools for financial advice despite low protection awareness.
The report warned that reliance on few providers could create systemic failure points.
British firms are expanding AI in customer-facing roles, prompting Bank of England (BoE) deputy governor Sarah Breeden to call for bespoke regulation.

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Mills Urges Oversight

The Mills Review urges the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to start a six-month follow-up on consumer harms from autonomous AI.
It recommends expanding FCA power over “critical third parties” AI developers and cloud providers to curb fraud, and calls Anthropic’s Mythos a cybersecurity threat limited to vetted firms, some UK banks.
The U.S. halted Mythos under President Donald Trump and partially restored it a week later, raising banking concerns.

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Historical Context

The 2008 crisis, sparked by Lehman Brothers’ September 2008 collapse and followed by a $700 billion TARP bailout, led Congress to sign the Dodd-Frank Act in July 2010. Now the 2024 Mills Review, led by FCA director Sheldon Mills and BoE deputy governor Sarah Breeden, calls for AI oversight, echoing post-crisis systemic regulatory reforms.

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Mills Urges Regulation

Sheldon Mills, FCA director, urged regulation of ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini within three to six months.
He found a quarter of UK consumers trust these AI tools for financial advice despite low protection awareness.
The report warned that reliance on few providers could create systemic failure points.
British firms are expanding AI in customer-facing roles, prompting Bank of England (BoE) deputy governor Sarah Breeden to call for bespoke regulation.

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