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\u201cHundreds\u201d of applicants have thrown their hats in the ring for senior AI jobs at the UK\u2019s top financial regulator, according to the new hires\u2019 future boss, despite the fact that AI companies can pay higher compensation.<\/p>\n
Jessica Rusu, the Financial Conduct Authority\u2019s chief data, information and artificial intelligence officer, said candidates valued the opportunity to solve \u201cfascinating and interesting problems\u201d at the FCA.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have two senior leadership roles in the market now, and we have had hundreds of really high-quality applications,\u201d the executive, who spent more than 20 years in the private sector before joining the FCA in 2021, said in an interview.<\/p>\n
The FCA has been advertising for a head of agentic AI and data science research, who will join the organization\u2019s senior leadership team for a salary of between \u00a3140 000 and \u00a3190 000 ($186 000 and $253,000) in London, or \u00a3126 000 to \u00a3171 000 if they work from the watchdog\u2019s Leeds or Edinburgh offices.<\/p>\n
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The regulator is also hiring a head of department, AI and technology security operations within the same salary range. Both roles recently closed for applications.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s part of the FCA\u2019s goal to become a global leader in AI regulation, both through its own use of the technology and its oversight of usage across the 35 500 firms it supervises.<\/p>\n
Rusu told a Bloomberg event in London on Monday that the FCA was building AI tools to help oversee anti-money laundering controls at 60,000 extra firms, as part of a new duty that comes into effect from 2028. It\u2019s also using automatic and agentic AI agents to help supervise around 9 000 small wholesale market transaction-reporting firms.<\/p>\n
The FCA is monitoring the financial services industry\u2019s use of AI and encouraging good practices. At the\u00a0event, Rusu called for firms \u201cto help consumers understand the limits of financial information and advice generated by their models through clear, proportionate and consistent disclaimers.\u201d<\/p>\n
The regulator is also working with firms on cyber defences and the potential risks from AI, as highlighted by the security concerns around Anthropic\u2019s new Mythos model earlier this year.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAI is moving faster than any regulatory framework was designed,\u201d Rusu said. \u201cThat means regulators will increasingly need to make judgments without precedent, while ensuring that trust remains at the heart of financial services.\u201d<\/p>\n
If the FCA had unlimited resources, Rusu said, \u201cwe would go after more and more financial crime.\u201d The regulator is seeing a rise in AI-enabled fraud, such as deepfake videos encouraging fake investment opportunities, she added. \u201cIt really undermines growth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n
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