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Britain Offers £0 Satellite Liability Limit Without Findings
Tech UK

Britain Offers £0 Satellite Liability Limit Without Findings

The published incentive rewards participation in security assessments and access to sustainability standards, without asking for audit findings or proof that recommendations were implemented.

Imogen Fairchild · · 6 min read
UK Parliament Drafts Incident Clocks; Ofcom Lacks AI Test
Tech UK
UK Parliament Drafts Incident Clocks; Ofcom Lacks AI Test
· 7 min read
Nine Firms Hold Targeted Support Permissions. The FCA Has Not Published Their Reach.
Finance UK
Nine Firms Hold Targeted Support Permissions. The FCA Has Not Published Their Reach.
· 5 min read
A 27.3 Million-Trade Audit Finds an 11.8 Basis-Point Gap in Short-Term Dollar Forwards
Finance UK
A 27.3 Million-Trade Audit Finds an 11.8 Basis-Point Gap in Short-Term Dollar Forwards
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Britain Offers £0 Satellite Liability Limit Without Findings
Tech UK
Britain Offers £0 Satellite Liability Limit Without Findings
The published incentive rewards participation in security assessments and access to sustainability standards, without...
· 6 min
UK Parliament Drafts Incident Clocks; Ofcom Lacks AI Test
Tech UK
UK Parliament Drafts Incident Clocks; Ofcom Lacks AI Test
The Cyber Security and Resilience Bill would start 24-hour and 72-hour duties when an operator becomes aware of a sig...
· 7 min
Ofcom's Deepfake Control Can Find a Known Image. A New One Is Harder.
Tech UK
Ofcom's Deepfake Control Can Find a Known Image. A New One Is Harder.
Ofcom's amended code recommends hash matching for in-scope services from 30 September, while the binding safety dutie...
· 6 min

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UK Financial Firms Can Rephase Conformity Work, Not AI Controls
EU-facing teams gained 16 months on Annex III conformity work. PRA model-risk expectations and FCA outcomes duties di...
· 5 min
AI & ML UK
Britain's Cyber Agency Told Firms to Treat AI Agents Like Untrusted Insiders, Not Tools
The NCSC's 2026 guidance on agentic AI reads like network security. Read closely, it is the nearest thing Britain has...
· 6 min
AI & ML UK
From 9% To 50%: AISI Cyber Numbers Lift The Resilience Bar For UK Finance
The AI Security Institute's own evaluations show frontier models completing half of apprentice-level offensive-cyber ...
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Nine Firms Hold Targeted Support Permissions. The FCA Has Not Published Their Reach.
Finance UK
Nine Firms Hold Targeted Support Permissions. The FCA Has Not Published Their Reach.
At least four consumer propositions are visibly live, but permissions, survey use and funded accounts remain differen...
· 5 min
A 27.3 Million-Trade Audit Finds an 11.8 Basis-Point Gap in Short-Term Dollar Forwards
Finance UK
A 27.3 Million-Trade Audit Finds an 11.8 Basis-Point Gap in Short-Term Dollar Forwards
A Bank of England paper finds dealer-specific prices and a sharp buy-sell asymmetry below one month, but it cannot ye...
· 6 min
The FCA Is Preparing for 60,000 AML Firms. Fifty-Six Million Daily Records Do Not Prove Enforcement.
Finance UK
The FCA Is Preparing for 60,000 AML Firms. Fifty-Six Million Daily Records Do Not Prove Enforcement.
The transfer has reached the Commons and the FCA is targeting the end of 2028, but data throughput and exploratory ag...
· 5 min
Britain's Banks Flag AI Risk Twice. The Loan Terms Remain Unquantified.
Finance UK
Britain's Banks Flag AI Risk Twice. The Loan Terms Remain Unquantified.
The Bank of England has repeated a lender warning across two reporting rounds. One private-credit manager reports rej...
· 5 min
8.4% of UK Mortgage Advances Exceed 90% LTV. Arrears Are Still Falling.
Finance UK
8.4% of UK Mortgage Advances Exceed 90% LTV. Arrears Are Still Falling.
New UK mortgage lending is moving towards higher loan-to-value bands while the older loan book is producing fewer arr...
· 5 min
Britain Built a Stock Market for Private Shares Where the Companies Set the Rules
Finance UK
Britain Built a Stock Market for Private Shares Where the Companies Set the Rules
PISCES, the FCA's new intermittent-trading venue for private company shares, lets firms decide when their stock trade...
· 6 min
A Third of UK Bank Reserves Now Come From Borrowing, Not From Bond Purchases. The Bank of England Calls That the Plan.
Finance UK
A Third of UK Bank Reserves Now Come From Borrowing, Not From Bond Purchases. The Bank of England Calls That the Plan.
On 2 September the Bank's repo lending stood at £208.7 billion against £643.7 billion of reserves. A year of quantita...
· 6 min
The Bank of England Decides on a Digital Pound This Year, After Telling Banks to Build the Alternative
Finance UK
The Bank of England Decides on a Digital Pound This Year, After Telling Banks to Build the Alternative
The design phase ends in 2026, and the blueprint, the Treasury's joint assessment and the decision on next steps all ...
· 6 min
The FCA Will Judge Firms' Live AI in 2027 Without a Single New AI Rule
Finance UK
The FCA Will Judge Firms' Live AI in 2027 Without a Single New AI Rule
The regulator's second AI Live Testing cohort, from Barclays and Lloyds to UBS and Experian, is running real models i...
· 5 min
Open Banking Won 19 Million Users on Rails the Banks Were Never Paid to Build
Finance UK
Open Banking Won 19 Million Users on Rails the Banks Were Never Paid to Build
The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 lets the Treasury extend the same compulsion into savings, pensions and consumer c...
· 6 min
Cash-Access Rules Have Opened 230 Banking Hubs and Owe 120 More. What They Guarantee Is Cash, Not a Bank.
Finance UK
Cash-Access Rules Have Opened 230 Banking Hubs and Owe 120 More. What They Guarantee Is Cash, Not a Bank.
Nearly two years after the FCA's access-to-cash regime took effect, more than 230 shared banking hubs are open agains...
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Britain's pension reform can force poor funds to move savers out, but the test and the teeth are still unwritten
Finance UK
Britain's pension reform can force poor funds to move savers out, but the test and the teeth are still unwritten
The Pension Schemes Act 2026 is law and the megafund story dominates, but the sharper lever is the Value for Money fr...
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UK Financial Firms Can Rephase Conformity Work, Not AI Controls
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UK Financial Firms Can Rephase Conformity Work, Not AI Controls
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Britain's Banks Flag AI Risk Twice. The Loan Terms Remain Unquantified.
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Britain's Banks Flag AI Risk Twice. The Loan Terms Remain Unquantified.
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Ofcom's Deepfake Control Can Find a Known Image. A New One Is Harder.
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Ofcom's Deepfake Control Can Find a Known Image. A New One Is Harder.
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Computer Programming Added 0.12 Points to UK Growth. ONS Cannot Isolate AI.
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Computer Programming Added 0.12 Points to UK Growth. ONS Cannot Isolate AI.
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8.4% of UK Mortgage Advances Exceed 90% LTV. Arrears Are Still Falling.
Finance UK
8.4% of UK Mortgage Advances Exceed 90% LTV. Arrears Are Still Falling.
· 5 min read
Britain Built a Stock Market for Private Shares Where the Companies Set the Rules
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Britain Built a Stock Market for Private Shares Where the Companies Set the Rules
· 6 min read
A Third of UK Bank Reserves Now Come From Borrowing, Not From Bond Purchases. The Bank of England Calls That the Plan.
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A Third of UK Bank Reserves Now Come From Borrowing, Not From Bond Purchases. The Bank of England Calls That the Plan.
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