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Infosec decision-makers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa are expressing their concerns about AI governance or lack thereof, according to a survey by information technology company Veeam, which found that 70% of leaders say AI is interacting with sensitive data without full oversight in their organization.
The survey of 1,000 enterprise IT, data and security decision-makers at large European, Middle Eastern and African organizations indicated that two-thirds say employees in their companies are building agentic AI workflows the company can’t fully track.
As AI governance claims a greater share of risk oversight, more leaders are feeling the pain, with 37% reporting heightened stress and anxiety of expanding compliance obligations and 40% citing the potential for personal liability or consequences from AI-related regulatory failures. Nearly 60% of respondents said their enterprises are under new corporate accountability laws in their regions.
A few other key findings:
- 32% said rising regulatory pressure has caused tension or conflict with other executives.
- 45% said increased accountability has improved alignment and focus at the leadership level.
- 83% say the still-unfolding EU AI Act will have a positive effect on organizations and the wider landscape.
1 in 3 UK finserv workers experience bad AI output
Nearly a third of financial services employees in the UK are encountering inaccurate or misleading AI outputs, according to a survey by training provider Skillcast.
The poll of 148 UK employees in financial services concluded that 32% of workers get poor AI outputs as use of the technology becomes widespread across the industry. Despite the frequency of poor results, almost three-quarters (72%) of workers said they use AI on a daily basis and 89% say they use it at least once a week.
While guidance on AI is rising, it’s not nearly as ubiquitous. Just over 60% of finserv workers said they have a clear, accessible AI policy, while the 60% mark was higher than what the company observed in other industries, Skillcast noted.
The survey also concluded that expectations are high for AI in financial services. About 75% of financial services firms are now using AI, with another 10% planning to deploy it within the next three years, and 93% of financial services firms believe AI and machine learning will have the biggest impact on UK financial services over the next five years.
More than 70% of UK employers haven’t done forms of disability training
A majority of UK employers are failing to train managers on staff on discrimination and neurodiversity issues, according to a survey by compliance training company VinciWorks.
The poll of 398 HR, legal and compliance professionals found that 71% of UK employers haven’t trained managers or staff on disability discrimination or neurodiversity, and more than a third (35%) haven’t trained either group. Looking at managers and staff separately, 50% of employers haven’t given disability discrimination training to managers, while 57% haven’t trained staff on neurodiversity.
The finding comes as protected characteristics claims have spiked in the UK. A recent analysis showed cases linked to autism and ADHD nearly doubled between 2020 and 2025, rising to record levels and becoming the most common type of tribunal case in the UK.
VinciWorks also found that 43% of companies have not updated their whistleblowing policies and training since April, when sexual harassment disclosures became protected whistleblowing disclosures. More than one in 10 (11%) have no plans to update their policies or have no whistleblowing policy or training at all, the survey found.
