As AI reshapes financial services at speed, firms must embrace innovation while finding a route through shifting and uncertain regulatory expectations.
By Becky Critchley, Calum Docherty, Nicola Higgs, Rob Moulton, Charlotte Collins, and Amy Smyth
Financial services firms are at a critical juncture as the UK government and regulators consider
The White House has announced the launch of GOLD EAGLE, a new artificial intelligence-powered cybersecurity clearinghouse intended to accelerate the identification, verification, prioritization, and remediation of software vulnerabilities across both the public and private sectors. According to the White House announcement, the initiative is designed to leverage frontier AI capabilities to identify cyber vulnerabilities
Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from a tool that assists human decision-making into technology capable of acting independently. The next frontier, often referred to as agentic AI or agentic commerce, envisions AI agents negotiating contracts, making purchases, authorizing payments, and completing commercial transactions with little or no human intervention.
While enormous investments are being made
A securities class action filed against ZoomInfo Technologies, Inc. and certain of its directors and officers on June 25, 2026, highlights what may be the next phase of AI-related securities litigation. Unlike many earlier AI-related lawsuits, which alleged that companies overstated their AI capabilities, the Zoom complaint alleges that the company accurately described its AI
The third episode of The D&O Diary Podcast Series is now live. Building on our June 30, 2026, post discussing first-half federal court securities class action lawsuits, this episode explores the factors and trends driving the number of current suit filings.
In this podcast, we discuss the overall increase in the total number of federal
In the not-too-distant future a form of AI will develop into a new species. It will eventually have legal rights.
I started writing this in December of 2024. I’ve returned to it six times and each subsequent visit, it feels more likely.
Over the last few years in the Q&A section of my presentations attendees
For more than two decades, The D&O Diary has chronicled successive waves of securities litigation involving foreign companies with shares listed on U.S. exchanges. The Chinese reverse merger cases of the early 2010s centered on alleged accounting fraud. More recently, a new cluster of lawsuits has emerged involving low-float stocks, artificial intelligence announcements, SPACs, and
Today, we are staring down one of the greatest double-edged swords of our generation: Artificial Intelligence. While the headlines are flooded with warnings about AI-driven misinformation, deepfakes, and the erosion of public trust, our guest today argues we are missing the most important story of all—that AI might actually be the very tool we need