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Automated decision-making compliance in the US: what actually applies in 2026
There is no federal AI law binding private companies. What binds you is California's ADMT regulations, Texas TRAIGA, Illinois HB 3773 and Colorado's replacement statute. What each requires, what took effect when, and why the Colorado AI Act never applied. -
FINRA on AI agents: what the 2026 oversight report actually says
FINRA's 2026 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report names agentic scope creep and auditability of multi-step reasoning as supervisory risks. What it says, which existing rules already reach each risk, and three claims vendors keep getting wrong. -
AI governance
Analysis for organizations automating financial processes and deploying AI agents. Every regulatory claim is sourced and dated.
In practice
Permission before the action. Evidence after it.
The duties on this page attach to the moment an automated system acts: who permitted it, on which data, under which policy version, and what a person saw before approving. Barzel enforces that decision before execution and writes the record an auditor, a regulator or a data subject can be shown.
95 days leftColorado AI Act (SB 26-189) takes effect 1 January 2027
BarzelVault
The AI action firewall: decide what an agent may do before it does it.
- Approval thresholds and policy checks enforced before execution; human approvals that expire and escalate.
- Cryptographically signed audit receipts: trigger, inputs, policy version, approver, outcome.
- Credential isolation, spend and action limits, and an emergency kill switch.
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Barzel Central Gateway
The AI governance control plane: one inventory and one policy layer across every MCP server and agent.
- Registers and synchronises every tool; enforces identity, policy, region, cost and health per tool.
- Identity mapping through OIDC, Entra ID, Okta, SAML and SPIFFE, with credential brokerage.
- Trace and SIEM export (W3C trace context, OTLP) for the security team and the regulator.
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