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AI is rapidly transforming the global financial services industry, with the potential to disrupt and refine the existing nature of the industry. This is affecting, in particular, the banking, fund and insurance sectors, with the Economists Intelligence Unit analysis showing that some 86% of the industry plans to increase AI-related investment into technology by 2025. 

From trading stocks to assessment of mortgages and from equity and bond research support to conducting AML controls, AI is poised to be a major productivity boost to the entire financial services industry. McKinsey estimates that Generative AI will improve productivity in core bank activities by 30 to 90% and cumulatively, productivity and other benefits would add 9 to 15% of banks operating profits. 

AI, however, is increasingly being recognised as having the potential to introduce or worsen risk exposures. Unintended bias or discrimination against certain groups of consumers is a heightened risk. Regulators fret about such risks translating into financial exposures for firms or if they give rise to large-scale operational risks, such as malicious actions by cyber-criminals injecting false data into LLMs, or hallucinations and deepfakes using realistic AI-generated audio, video images impersonations. 

Whilst the major world economies are pursuing divergent regulatory approaches to governing AI in the financial sector, and beyond, the EU has embarked on the world’s first initiative for comprehensively regulating AI – focusing on the risks of usage rather than applications. It is setting the de facto international standard. 

The scope is very comprehensive, and embraces:

• Creators of AI models liable for how the technology is used – even when a 3rd-party embeds it in a different system
• Scope: AI creators, service-providers, deployers, importers, distributors, and product manufacturers – but not users
• AI Act requires 3rd-country providers/creators of AI systems to appoint an authorized representative established in the EU

This course will cover all the relevant regulatory aspects of the EU AI Act, from a creator or originator perspective to ensure that banks, insurers and fund managers are fully compliant with the detailed rules of the Act.

Central to the EU AI regulatory agenda in this course is the identification of key risks associated with the adoption of AI by originators, with huge implications for banks, insurers, fund managers, brokers, traders, intermediaries and third-party licensees using the AI application.

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In broad terms, by the end of the programme, participants will:

• Have acquired a structured understanding of the current EU legislative landscape and priorities in the EU AI ACT, and related EU regulations pertaining to DORA and GDPR.
• Be sufficiently conversant with the details of the key pieces of current and revised EU FS legislation to engage in a discussion with their professional peers, regulators and apply the knowledge in reviewing the impact on their business models 

Specifically, they will be able to:

• Understand the EU Institutional decision-making process from the EC proposal stage on both legislative packages to ratification by the EU Parliament and Council
• Identify the various key provisions of the EU AI Act, and the more rigorous prior assessment that must be undertaken for all new pre-training data associated with ‘high-risk’ AI applications before it can rolled out across the 27EU.
• Identify the new requirements under the above legislative packages that apply to the financial firm as an originator and creator of the AI applications as well as its continuing oversight of the ultimate usage of the original AI app by third-party licensees.
• Build an awareness of the statutory requirements of the EU AI Act as defined by the EBA as financial service providers of ‘high-risk’ AI systems and deployers of ‘high-risk’ AI systems, ie, credit scoring, automated insurance claims and risk assessment tools in setting insurance premiums and granting mortgages.
• Learn how to mitigate the downside of ‘high-risk’ AI systems
• Be capable of anticipating questions and queries by national and Pan-EU supervisors relating to the EU AI package as it relates to your firm’s indigenous AI application.

ΣΕ ΠΟΙΟΥΣ ΑΠΕΥΘΥΝΕΤΑΙ

The course is addressed to:  

• COOs
• CFOs
• Regulatory Compliance Officers
• National Supervisors
• Financial Services Trade Bodies
• Chief Legal Officers
• Internal ITC Specialist
• Chief Data Officers

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Training Outline 

• The EU AI Act – introduction, scope and extra-territoriality extension
• Prohibited AI practices
• High-risk AI systems and their classification and rules
• Requirements for high-risk AI systems
• AI Act Risk management system and ICT systems – link to DORA
• Obligations of providers and deployers of high-risk AI systems and other parties
• Role of national supervisors
• Obligations of distributors
• Identifying operational risks

Training Style  

The programme is designed to deliver high-level knowledge and insights into the EU financial services regulatory agenda and developments. It will strive to enhance participants’ skills and knowledge via lectures supported by power-point presentations and practical examples. The training style is both training-focused, involving a combination of presentation and real-live examples, but also learner-focused, where participants are encouraged to raise questions, seek clarifications and share their opinions from their different perspectives and engage in an exchange of views and personal professional experiences.

CPD Recognition 

This programme may be approved for up to 2.5 CPD units in Financial Regulation.  Eligibility criteria and CPD Units are verified directly by your association, regulator or other bodies which you hold membership.