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When AI meets the Consumer Duty

19 March 2024 / Author(s): Karen Anderson , Jon Ford
Issue: December 2022 / Categories: In Practice
Company: Herbert Smith Freehills

Artificial intelligence (AI), with its power to process large volumes of data, can provide more personalisation of financial products and services for consumers at greater scale and efficiency, and at lower cost. It can, in principle, enable firms to provide better support for vulnerable customers (for example, to consumers without standard credit histories, or through the use of simplified advice). All this could help to advance the FCA’s desired outcome of increased access through greater financial inclusion.1 This In Practice article considers the recent Discussion Paper to foster debate on this issue.

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