Andrew Goodwin: As the regulator plays catch-up, should advisers race towards AI's cutting edge?

'The review offers tangible evidence of the FCA playing catch-up'

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Andrew Goodwin continues his columns for PA with a look at the FCA's Mills Review...

I seem to have written about AI quite a lot recently, often with reference to TV programmes from yesteryear. Star Trek and Columbo have been among the classics dredged up over the months. Please feel free to explore these strange-sounding connections at your leisure. Which series might be excavated from the archives following the publication of the Mills Review, the Financial Conduct Authority's deep dive into "AI and the future of retail financial services"? The contender that immediately springs to mind is The Late Late Show. This isn't because I find artificial intelligence about a...

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