The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority is urging banks, insurers and superannuation trustees to move faster, and think harder, about how they govern artificial intelligence, warning that risk controls are struggling to keep pace with the technology’s rapid expansion across the financial system.
The question has been circling European policy circles for years, but at BRIDGE 2026, it was brought into sharper focus. Are the very regulations designed to safeguard rights and build trust also making it harder for Europe to innovate?
The European Commission is turning to how artificial intelligence operates on mobile devices, unveiling preliminary measures that could force Google to open up key parts of its Android ecosystem to rival AI services.
European lawmakers are heading into a decisive round of negotiations this week that could reshape key elements of the bloc’s artificial intelligence rulebook and accelerate how quickly those changes take effect.
About a year ago, a risk analyst on one of my client teams told me she had just reviewed a 94-page SOC 2 report in twelve minutes. She used Claude. She did it at her kitchen table at 9 PM because she had two kids and the workday had long since ended.
Across large enterprises, boards are approving AI governance frameworks. The policy approval meeting has become a standard board agenda item: AI use case register, model risk policy, ethics principles, human oversight requirements. The vote passes. The governance record is clean.
The Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets has warned that artificial intelligence is being adopted rapidly across the Dutch asset management sector, but many firms are still falling short on governance, policy, and internal controls.