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Overview

Sarah Breeden is Deputy Governor for Financial Stability at the bank-of-england.

Agentic AI Speech (June 30, 2026)

“Agents of change” at ECB Sintra Forum (2026-06-30-boe-sarah-breeden-agents-of-change-official):

  • Shift from insisting existing frameworks suffice → bespoke AI regulation for agentic systems
  • Agent herding and objective misalignment as systemic risk vectors
  • Kill switches / circuit breakers under exploration
  • Enhanced recovery for core banking systems under consideration
  • AI agents in commerce, trading, and cyber vulnerability discovery on radar

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