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Covering AI Incident, SaMD, Disability, GDPR, Artificial Intelligence. Explore critical updates in AI transparency, financial market reforms, AI misuse incidents, and regulatory priorities across AI Incident, SaMD, Disability, GDPR, and Artificial Intelligence sectors.
Weekly news, analysis, and insights from AI regulation updates the world over
Welcome to This Week in AI Regulations for March 02, 2026.
Starting in the European Union, significant progress continues on AI transparency and financial market reforms. Working groups have advanced discussions on transparency obligations under Article 50 of the AI Act, focusing on disclosure requirements for deepfakes and AI-generated text. These include implementing state-of-the-art marking techniques such as watermarking and metadata, aligned with international standards to ensure clarity and usability across the AI value chain.
Additionally, the European Securities and Markets Authority, or ESMA, has introduced European consolidated tape providers under its supervision. New regulatory technical standards on market data pricing have been established, and ongoing efforts aim to integrate and simplify fund reporting. These measures support the adoption of AI and tokenisation technologies while preparing for T plus one settlement and the Market Integration Package implementation. Natasha Cazenave highlighted these initiatives in her speech at the British Virgin Islands Fund Operations Conference on February 24, 2026, emphasizing enhanced competitiveness, investor protection, and financial stability.
In Germany, the European Instant Payment Regulation, effective since April 2024 and applicable to all payment service providers from October 2025, mandates instant payment capabilities without higher fees. It also requires implementing IBAN name checks and efficient sanctions screening without compromising real-time payment speed. Collaboration on fraud prevention, including information exchange and consumer communication, is a key component to strengthen the resilience and strategic autonomy of the European payment system.
Turning to Spain, the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores, or CNMV, has launched its 2026 Activity Plan featuring 60 initiatives. These include drafting a new Corporate Governance Code for listed companies, developing AI tools for supervision, enhancing transparency, and improving regulatory effectiveness. The CNMV will also publish guidelines on online fraud, AI use, and crypto-fraud, alongside conducting surveys on investment fraud and monitoring investment products and services on social media.
In Malta, the Malta Financial Services Authority, or MFSA, published its supervisory priorities for 2026 with a strong focus on financial crime compliance, consumer protection, and cross-border supervision. The MFSA emphasizes enhanced anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing controls, sanctions compliance, proliferation financing controls, and digital finance oversight including AI. Key requirements include reviewing and strengthening money laundering reporting officer effectiveness, enhancing risk assessments, customer screening, and transaction monitoring systems, as well as implementing value-for-money assessments and transparent disclosures for consumers. These priorities align with the European Union’s AML legislative package to reduce regulatory and reputational risks.
In Sweden, the Swedish Data Protection Authority, known as IMY, has set its 2026 priorities focusing on AI, children, and crime prevention. The public sector must actively manage data protection when using AI, especially involving sensitive personal data. IMY aims to increase awareness among children, young people, and their guardians about personal data protection. Law enforcement agencies are urged to consider data protection implications of their tools, including secret coercive measures and biometric data collection.
In Italy, starting March 2, 2026, access requests to CAI data submitted through the 'Servizi online' platform with SPID or CIE authentication will be processed automatically. Results will be available in the user's personal area.
Moving to the United States, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, or OCC, led by Comptroller Michael J. Gould, testified on agency priorities emphasizing a shift to risk-based supervision focusing on material safety and soundness issues. The OCC proposes rules to eliminate reputation risk in supervision, is reviewing debanking complaints to ensure fair access to banking services, reproposing Basel III capital rules, modernizing Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering regulations, and supporting innovation including stablecoins and AI adoption.
In New York, the Department of Financial Services Acting Superintendent Kaitlin Asrow outlined new regulatory initiatives in the fiscal year 2027 executive budget. These include expanded consumer protections in insurance, enhanced supervision of virtual currency companies, adoption of AI use policies, cybersecurity regulation updates, and new regulations for Buy Now, Pay Later loans.
In Wisconsin, a Milwaukee police officer misused the Flock AI license plate recognition system to track private individuals for personal reasons, violating privacy rights and departmental policies.
The Federal Communications Commission’s Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau has initiated a comment cycle to assess compliance with accessibility obligations under the Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act. The bureau seeks input on barriers in new communications technologies and the effect of recordkeeping and enforcement requirements on technology development.
The FCC also focuses on accelerating broadband deployment, particularly fiber networks, by streamlining licensing and permitting processes, simplifying rules, and reducing burdens on businesses.
In Poland, former heads of intelligence agencies were charged for permitting the use of Pegasus AI surveillance without legal and security compliance.
In India, the Delhi High Court issued an interim injunction restraining unauthorized use of yoga guru Ramdev’s name, image, and voice in AI deepfakes. The court ordered removal of offending content within 72 hours.
In the United Arab Emirates, the Central Bank of the UAE, or C-B-U-A-E, issued a regulatory framework for the responsible use of AI technologies in financial institutions under its supervision. The framework ensures consumer protection and promotes ethical, transparent, and safe deployment of AI in financial services, mitigating operational and reputational risks.
On a global scale, multiple data protection authorities issued joint statements on AI-generated imagery and the protection of privacy. These statements urge organizations developing and using AI content generation systems to implement robust safeguards to prevent misuse of personal information and harmful content, especially non-consensual intimate imagery and harms to children. They emphasize meaningful transparency about AI capabilities, safeguards, acceptable uses, and misuse consequences, and call for accessible mechanisms for individuals to request removal of harmful content.
Finally, at the United Nations, the Budget Committee resumed sessions amid record cash-flow challenges, calling for modernization of financial regulations and human resource policies. Discussions focus on revising UN Financial Regulations to improve financial management and credit return methodology, examining staff contractual modalities favoring fixed-term appointments, and promoting equitable geographical diversity and workforce rejuvenation.
That wraps up today's regulatory updates. Visit carveragents.ai for more information.