Existing financial liability models break when autonomous agents initiate transactions on behalf of users.
Because fiduciary and payment card infrastructures are designed exclusively around human authorization, they cannot cleanly allocate or manage operational liability when AI agents complete transactions dynamically.
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Traditional human-centric credit credentials and payment architectures cannot safely handle automated transaction initiation by AI agents.
The bank is directly modifying its transactional networks to accommodate and secure payments initiated completely by automated agents.
The FCA is establishing that financial firms bear full conduct and fiduciary liability for the erratic output or trade executions of their autonomous agents.
AI assistants are acting as financial planners and aggregation tools while operating entirely outside the legal boundaries of professional fiduciary duty.
It shows that existing bank and card payment network rules cannot easily allocate risk when an autonomous AI agent acts as a transactional third or fourth party.