
EU AI Act Omnibus Agreement
What changed, what did not, and what UK financial services firms should do next What happened on 7 May 2026 The European Council and European Parliament reached provisional political agreement
This programme admits a small number of UK and EU-based organisations into the first CattleGrid deployment cohort. Early participants help shape the product, receive preferential commercial terms and gain direct access to the product team. Places are limited, and we are accepting requests to join the waitlist.
When employees use AI tools to assist with their work, they might accidentally include sensitive information—such as customer National Insurance numbers, credit card details, medical records, or confidential company secrets. CattleGrid detects this data and prevents it from being sent, keeping your organisation safe and compliant with data regulations.
At its core, from first principles, Cattlegrid serves as a critical control layer for organisations seeking to align with ISO 42001and GDPR legislation by providing the necessary oversight and risk mitigation for enterprise AI adoption. By implementing a Zero Trust, Zero Retention model—characterised by memory-only processing and outbound-only inspection—the platform ensures that sensitive data is restricted from ever exiting the organisation without oversight and supportsthe data minimisation and storage limitation principles championed by the ICO and required for ethical AI governance
This programme admits a small number of UK and EU-based organisations into the first CattleGrid deployment cohort. Early participants help shape the product, receive preferential commercial terms and gain direct access to the product team. Places are limited, and we are accepting requests to join the waitlist.

What changed, what did not, and what UK financial services firms should do next What happened on 7 May 2026 The European Council and European Parliament reached provisional political agreement

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