Responsible AI is a serious concern for European regulators. AI drives innovation by enhancing decision-making and efficiency across all industries, finance makes no exception. However, challenges like data privacy and bias have led European regulators to ensure AI prioritizes fairness, human rights, and accountability, fostering responsible use while minimizing risks. In a nutshell, this is the spirit of the EU AI Act (enforced in August 2024) that wants to ensure a safe use of AI systems.
The adoption of the EU AI Act highlights the increasing regulatory focus on ensuring AI models are ethical, fair, and transparent. Financial institutions face mounting pressure to assess and demonstrate the fairness of their AI models, particularly in areas such as credit risk scoring, transaction monitoring, and customer interaction. Companies are expected to comply with EU AI Act by August 2026.
The European Commission will most likely expect all financial organisations to integrate in their risk management framework and ESG reports an AI Fairness assessment and support in AI conformity assessment.
Governance
Risk-level identification of AI risk system and integration of responsible AI report into the risk management framework and systems.
Perform AI conformity assessment
Ensure that the use of AI systems is lawful, ethical and technically robust.
Monitoring and maintenance
Performing periodical reviews and updates of the AI conformity assessment report.
Finalyse offers a comprehensive AI model fairness assessment service aligned with the requirements of the EU AI Act.
Our service combines both quantitative and qualitative evaluations to assess key metrics such as fairness, bias, transparency, and accountability, while ensuring full regulatory compliance.
We support clients in various aspects of preparing for the EU AI Act conformity assessment, including:
Our methodology is aligned with the CapA conformity assessment procedure (as outlined in capAI.pdf), a structured tool designed to audit AI systems. Finalyse has previously applied similar internal review protocols for several clients.
The assessment process is structured into the following key stages:
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