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Banking Watchdogs Ramp up AI Scrutiny as Stability Fears Mount, Sources Say: Reuters Exclusive
- Banking regulators, including the Fed and the European Central Bank, are intensifying scrutiny on AI risks, quizzing lenders about advanced models and potential vulnerabilities to cyberattacks and rogue agents.
- Recent hacks on South Korean banks involving Chinese-developed AI agents have heightened fears that rapid AI adoption is outpacing current controls, potentially destabilizing global financial markets.
- The ECB set an end-October deadline for lenders to produce counter-threat plans, while British supervisors are encouraging major banks to implement independent "bare metal" recovery systems that operate separately from primary tech infrastructure.
- "To protect against attacks, rapid recovery matters as much as prevention," said Sukand Ramachandran, managing director at BCG, warning that without clean data copies, attacks could lock customers out of accounts and disrupt payments.
- Executives at large European banks worry about major market damage "within six months," prompting supervisors to press firms to map AI dependencies and ensure they can restart systems in a crisis.
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Bank controls in America and Europe are intensifying their scrutiny of the use of artificial intelligence banks, amid fears of cyberattacks and independent systems that may threaten financial stability, and requiring banks to strengthen recovery plans.
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