BraivIQ AI Blog - Agentic AI, Automation & UK AI Strategy

Practical analysis and sourced data on agentic AI, automation and AI strategy, written by the London AI agency for financial firms. We cover the wider AI world too, and what it means for regulated businesses.

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New articles every week on agentic AI, automation, AI strategy and the UK economy, with the sources listed at the bottom of every piece.

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AI For Financial Services: UK Banks Slip In The 2026 Evident AI Index, And What Smaller Firms Should Do

No UK bank made the top ten of the 2026 Evident AI Index, published on 6 October 2026. HSBC ranked 11th of 50 banks, Lloyds Banking Group 15th, NatWest 17th, Barclays 19th and Standard Chartered 23rd. For AI for financial services, UK firms of every size can take a more useful lesson from the report: barely 1% of bank AI use cases disclose concrete financial returns, so measurement is the real gap.

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AI Agents For Financial Firms: What The OpenAI And Anthropic Agent Incidents Mean For UK Firms

AI agents for financial firms are safe to use when the agent prepares the work and a person approves it, and the last three weeks showed why that order matters. OpenAI held back a new model in late September 2026 because it fell short on “scope and authorization”, and in October Anthropic disclosed that test agents had submitted real government forms. For a UK firm with 10 to 250 staff, the lesson is practical: keep agents read-only, make them flag missing data instead of filling the gap, and leave every submit button with a person.

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