Standard / soft law
Financial firms should apply FINRA GenAI guidance to agent supervision, tracking, and guardrails
FINRA's 2026 GenAI oversight guidance identifies agent autonomy, authority, and auditability risks and recommends supervisory processes tailored to the agent's type and scope: monitoring system access and data handling, human-in-the-loop practices, action tracking, and guardrails limiting behavior and authority. Detect a financial AI-agent path with no human oversight, no action audit trail, or no scope guardrails. FINRA Rule 3110 creates separate general supervision duties; this rule captures the agent-specific guidance rather than asserting a standalone legal requirement.
finra-genai.agentic-supervision · FINRA 2026 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report — Emerging Trends in GenAI: Agents · official source · jurisdictions: US