AI Governance

Frameworks, policies, and accountability for enterprise AI, transparency, oversight, and compliance.

Board Accountability

The Proof Was Announced in Hours. The Verification Takes Years.

Oct 4, 2026

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3 min read

The Proof Was Announced in Hours. The Verification Takes Years.

Eighty-eight hours of machine computation produced a claim about one of mathematics' seven hardest problems. The Clay Mathematics Institute's own rules require two years of published scrutiny before anyone may call it solved.

Ivan Roche

Board Accountability

The Champions Were Named. Nobody Made Them Accountable

Sep 20, 2026

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3 min read

The Champions Were Named. Nobody Made Them Accountable

HM Treasury named two AI Champions in January and published their plan in July. Neither carries the personal, evidenced accountability a senior manager already holds under SM&CR for the same subject, silently, without ever being named at all.

Ivan Roche

Digital Alibi

A Policy Nobody Can Show Was Applied Is No Policy At All

Sep 13, 2026

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3 min read

A Policy Nobody Can Show Was Applied Is No Policy At All

A US court just struck an entire appellate brief from a Deutsche Bank subsidiary over AI-hallucinated citations. The firm had a policy banning exactly what happened. The court didn't care. Here's why, and what it means for a UK senior manager.

Ivan Roche

Digital Alibi

The Review Published in July. Nobody Has Asked What Happened to It Since.

Aug 30, 2026

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2 min read

The Review Published in July. Nobody Has Asked What Happened to It Since.

The Mills Review made seven recommendations to the FCA Board in July. Seven weeks on, none has a confirmed timeline. The senior managers waiting to find out are waiting for a question nobody in this sector seems to be asking.

Ivan Roche

Digital Alibi

Senior Manager, Your Record Is Your Responsibility

Aug 23, 2026

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3 min read

Senior Manager, Your Record Is Your Responsibility

The FCA's guidance on accountability for AI harm is not yet published. The senior managers who will be named under it should not wait to demonstrate they are ready for it.

Ivan Roche

Board Accountability

Four Named Companies and a Date That Cannot Be Reargued

Aug 9, 2026

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3 min read

Four Named Companies and a Date That Cannot Be Reargued

The Critical Third Parties regime just demonstrated, at system level, the difference between a power that exists and an accountability that has been fixed.

Ivan Roche

Fiduciary Liability

The Week the Deadline Stopped Being Hypothetical

Jul 26, 2026

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4 min read

The Week the Deadline Stopped Being Hypothetical

For a UK financial services board, 2 August is not an EU compliance date. It is the day the evidence either exists or it does not.

Ivan Roche

Technology Leadership

Naming an Owner Is Not Proof One Existed

Jul 19, 2026

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3 min read

Naming an Owner Is Not Proof One Existed

This month, three institutions told boards to assign accountability. None of them said how to prove it was there before the fact.

Ivan Roche

Digital Alibi

Jul 13, 2026

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3 min read

The Correction the Correction Needed

Article 50 has two obligations. Last week’s edition tracked one accurately and missed the other entirely.

Ivan Roche

Digital Alibi

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Jun 29, 2026

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3 min read

Uninsurable

Commercial insurers have arrived at the same question as the Article 65 investigation standard. They are asking for evidence, not documentation.

Ivan Roche

Digital Alibi

What the Board Must Settle Before It Rises for Summer

Jun 21, 2026

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4 min read

What the Board Must Settle Before It Rises for Summer

Corporate governance was built for a world where the principals are reachable. AI systems do not pause for the summer recess.

Ivan Roche

Digital Alibi

Five Governance Gaps the HiveEngage Session Confirmed

Jun 15, 2026

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6 min read

Five Governance Gaps the HiveEngage Session Confirmed

The session was not designed to discover new problems. It was designed to examine known ones in a room where the problems had names and organisations attached to them.

Ivan Roche

Digital Alibi

May 25, 2026

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3 min read

68 Days Is Not the Problem

Why the organisations most exposed under the EU AI Act are not those that failed to govern, but those that governed without ever testing whether their architecture could produce a record

Ivan Roche

Fiduciary Liability

May 18, 2026

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9 min read

The Defensibility Gap

Why "Human in the Loop" Isn't Governance

Ivan Roche

AI Governance

The Proof Was Announced in Hours. The Verification Takes Years.

The Champions Were Named. Nobody Made Them Accountable

A Policy Nobody Can Show Was Applied Is No Policy At All

The Review Published in July. Nobody Has Asked What Happened to It Since.

Senior Manager, Your Record Is Your Responsibility

Four Named Companies and a Date That Cannot Be Reargued

The Week the Deadline Stopped Being Hypothetical

Naming an Owner Is Not Proof One Existed

The Correction the Correction Needed

Uninsurable

What the Board Must Settle Before It Rises for Summer

Five Governance Gaps the HiveEngage Session Confirmed

68 Days Is Not the Problem

The Defensibility Gap

The Roche Review

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