India, July 15 -- According to reports, the Bank of England has warned that autonomous AI agents could introduce new risks across financial markets, payments and cyber infrastructure.

In a recent speech, Deputy Governor Sarah Breeden said agentic AI is moving beyond generating information to taking actions. In finance, such systems could eventually execute trades, manage liquidity, initiate payments or identify software vulnerabilities at machine speed.

The concern is not restricted to one system making a mistake. If several agents respond similarly to the same market signal, they could intensify price movements and create herding behaviour. AI-enabled cyber tools could also discover and combine weaknesses across banks, technology provi...