Claim · 2026-07-14 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

In his Mansion House speech published on 14 July 2026, Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, said that agentic AI can create agents to buy or trade on a principal’s behalf and asked who is liable when such agents spend real money in final and binding ways.

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What it connects

Growth and regulation → articulates → AI agents will change payment flows

Where it appears

AI and money: what central banks and financial authorities have said, 1997–2026 →

Claim and evidence

Growth and regulationarticulates ↓AI agents will change payment flows

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Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 2026-07-14 · publication Records dated 2026 →
Role: Articulation
Register (kind of text): Nonfiction

Scope and limitsFramed as questions of law and governance for public policy; the speaker says these are not questions for the Bank to answer. No views disclaimer was found on the page.

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primary sourceSupports the claim

Growth and regulation - speech by Andrew Bailey

Bank of England · 2026-07-14

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Source excerpt

“Consider so-called agentic AI where we can create AI agents to act on our behalf – say, to buy or trade things.”

Location in source Section on artificial intelligence, paragraph beginning “Second, the rise of AI creates problems of law”

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-06

Source details and check notes

Authors: Andrew Bailey
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-02 (SHA-256 958a35482a33c9bcbb661234e75dcb627fc50f756f1bb9fe8aa997dda5eceb10). Retrieved again at admission on 2026-11-06 (SHA-256 023ac07f1b729e938d41a09e9d9b8679d731ef7165af6c86e62291849258279e; web pages are served with new markup on each request). HTML speech page as served on 2026-11-02
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Accessed: 2026-11-06
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Andrew Bailey, “Growth and regulation - speech by Andrew Bailey”, 2026-07-14.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, AI and money (research/ai-money). The quotation (22 words) matched a fresh retrieval of 2026-11-06. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms. No human editorial review.

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Growth and regulation - speech by Andrew Bailey

Bank of England · 2026-07-14

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Source excerpt

“Does this apply when real money is spent in ways that are final and binding, as and when agentic AI is allowed to hold the purse strings?”

Location in source Same section

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-11-06

Source details and check notes

Authors: Andrew Bailey
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-11-02 (SHA-256 958a35482a33c9bcbb661234e75dcb627fc50f756f1bb9fe8aa997dda5eceb10). Retrieved again at admission on 2026-11-06 (SHA-256 023ac07f1b729e938d41a09e9d9b8679d731ef7165af6c86e62291849258279e; web pages are served with new markup on each request). HTML speech page as served on 2026-11-02
Canonical address: Open the canonical source ↗
Accessed: 2026-11-06
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Andrew Bailey, “Growth and regulation - speech by Andrew Bailey”, 2026-07-14.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, AI and money (research/ai-money). The quotation (27 words) matched a fresh retrieval of 2026-11-06. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms. No human editorial review.

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Record ID am-u07-boe-2026-bailey-mansion-house