{"id":1004212,"date":"2026-04-22T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004212"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:45:26","slug":"lloyds-pilots-ai-investment-guidance-tool-as-uk-regulator-studies-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/22\/lloyds-pilots-ai-investment-guidance-tool-as-uk-regulator-studies-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Lloyds pilots AI investment guidance tool as UK regulator studies impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lloyds Banking Group has become the first UK lender to introduce an artificial intelligence tool to help customers make investment decisions, even as AI&#8217;s impact on the tightly regulated financial advice industry comes under scrutiny. <\/p>\n<p>The British bank told Reuters it was piloting the AI-powered tool with a small group of customers through its Scottish Widows pensions and investments \u200carm, offering what \u2060it \u2060describes as investment &#8220;guidance&#8221; rather than advice. The product is expected to be widened later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lloyds Banking Group has become the first UK lender to introduce an artificial intelligence tool to help customers make investment decisions, even as AI&#8217;s impact on the tightly regulated financial advice industry comes under scrutiny. The British bank told Reuters it was piloting the AI-powered tool with a small group of customers through its Scottish Widows pensions and investments \u200carm, offering what \u2060it \u2060describes as investment &#8220;guidance&#8221; rather than advice. The product is expected to be widened later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}