
Bank of England Survey Finds Just 2% of Firms Allow Broad Autonomy
The Bank of England and FCA's 2026 survey finds 80% of UK financial firms run AI agents and 2% grant broad autonomy. Vendor AI now makes up 53% of high-materiality systems, and a quarter of the 48 firms asked let vendor updates reach production automatically.
October 27, 2026 · 9 min read