In a keynote speech of 24 February 2026, Pedro Machado, ECB representative to the Supervisory Board, said that ECB Banking Supervision’s approach is technology-neutral but that AI introduces qualitative changes that cannot be addressed simply by expanding existing frameworks, which do not always fully cater to AI-specific challenges.

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