AI Governance and Regulation in Finance Statistics
The EU AI Act entered into force on 1 August 2024, with fines reaching up to 35 million euros or 7% of global annual turnover for prohibited practices. That is the regulatory ceiling the figures below fill in. Each datapoint comes from primary sources: the EU AI Act text, the FSB, the ECB, and the BIS, with source and year named for each. Timelines can be amended after publication; dates reflect what the cited source stated. No figure was generated by this site.
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The EU AI Act entered into force on 1 August 2024, with prohibited-practice rules applying from 2 February 2025 and general-purpose-AI obligations from 2 August 2025
The Act is phased: the full framework was set to be largely applicable two years after entry into force, with separate timelines for prohibitions, GPAI obligations, and high-risk systems.
EU AI Act fines reach up to 35 million euros or 7% of total worldwide annual turnover for prohibited AI practices
Lower tiers apply to other breaches: up to 15 million euros or 3% of turnover for high-risk non-compliance, and up to 7.5 million euros or 1% for supplying incorrect information. The top ceiling exceeds the GDPR maximum.
The EU AI Act classifies AI used to evaluate the creditworthiness of natural persons or set their credit score as high-risk
Credit scoring is named in Annex III as a high-risk use case subject to risk-management, data-governance, transparency, and human-oversight obligations, with an exception for fraud detection.
The Financial Stability Board identified third-party dependency and service-provider concentration, market correlations, cyber risk, and model risk as the AI vulnerabilities most likely to raise systemic risk
The FSB's November 2024 report named these four channels and called on authorities to close information gaps for monitoring AI use in the financial sector.
Just over half of investment in AI firms was concentrated in four companies, the ECB noted in flagging supplier-concentration risk
The ECB tied this concentration to operational, too-big-to-fail, and herding risks if AI tools are widely adopted and suppliers remain few.
About 71% of surveyed central banks were already using generative AI, but only about 19% reported having a concrete strategy for adopting it
A further 26% planned to adopt generative AI within one to two years and 23% reported no strategy, illustrating that use is outrunning formal governance even among regulators.
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Figures are drawn from primary regulatory and supervisory sources: the EU AI Act text and official Commission timeline, the Financial Stability Board, the European Central Bank, and the Bank for International Settlements, each reported with its source and year. Regulatory dates reflect the cited source at publication and may be amended. No statistic on this page is derived from data collected by this site.
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Sources & References
- Regulatory framework for AI (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) — European Commission (2024)
- Article 99: Penalties; Annex III: High-Risk AI Systems — EU Artificial Intelligence Act (2024)
- The Financial Stability Implications of Artificial Intelligence — Financial Stability Board (2024)
- Governance of AI adoption in central banks — Bank for International Settlements (2025)
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