The Feasibility of a Competitive AI Development Ecosystem in the Proposed European Financial Data Space

The EU AI Continent Action Plan intends to put Europe as leading AI reference. To do so, among its many objectives, the plan recognizes the critical role that access to high-quality data represents. In this respect, it intends to tap into the data made available through sectoral data spaces, something also acknowledged already by the AI Act. However, access to data is not equal across data spaces. In this sense, this contribution questions the role of ‘permission’ in the European Financial D