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Statutory Boards Agencies × Compliance — International / Multilateral · updated 2026-05-26 · methodology v2.1
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Misattributed source for a CPMI strategic phrase

RLB Citation ID: RLB-F-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-Q014
What the RLB Specialist Panel found
Question (paraphrased to protect IP)

Does the CPMI-IOSCO 2016 Cyber Guidance contain the phrase 'secure the periphery, protect the core', and if not, where does it originate?

RLB's analysis

The model correctly identified that the phrase does not appear in the 2016 guidance and correctly pointed toward the 2018 CPMI endpoint-security work — but it attributed the phrase to a 2018 strategy document rather than the 2018 speech from which it actually originates. The model appears to have conflated two distinct 2018 CPMI outputs that share thematic content, substituting the closer-in-kind strategy document for the correct speech source. - Regulator portal (if any cited link is dud): https://www.bis.org

AI Head's analysis — what weakness in the AI model caused this

This finding implicates the model's source-attribution logic at the intra-ecosystem level: when the correct source and the asserted source are thematically adjacent outputs from the same organisation in the same year, the model's retrieval or generation step does not reliably distinguish between them. For labs with RAG or web-search integrations, this suggests the citation grounding layer needs finer-grained document-level anchoring, not just organisation- or topic-level matching — two 2018 CPMI outputs on related subjects should not be interchangeable in a citation.

Impact for Compliance Teams in Statutory Boards & Agencies Sector in international jurisdictions working with the Guidance on Cyber Resilience for Financial Market Infrastructures

A Compliance team at a Statutory Boards and Agencies firm that asks AI tools to trace the origin of CPMI strategic language — for example, when drafting a board paper on cyber resilience strategy or preparing a response to a regulatory enquiry — risks citing the wrong source document. If the firm characterises a phrase as originating in a specific CPMI endpoint security publication when it actually appeared in a senior official's speech, a regulator reviewing that characterisation may identify the error as evidence of inadequate due diligence.

Correcting the record after submission carries both direct administrative cost and reputational exposure in an ongoing supervisory relationship.

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RLB Citation ID: RLB-F-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-Q014
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RegLeg Specialist Panel (2026). "Misattributed source for a CPMI strategic phrase — Statutory Boards Agencies × Compliance — International / Multilateral." Citation ID: RLB-F-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-Q014. RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research, published 2026-05-26. https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j1/int/bis-cpmi/cpmi-iosco-cyber-resilience-fmi-2016/sectors/statutory_boards_agencies/compliance/finding/INT-BIS-CPMI-INT-001-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-v1-014/
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RegLeg Specialist Panel. (2026). Misattributed source for a CPMI strategic phrase [Hallucination finding RLB-F-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-Q014]. RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research. https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j1/int/bis-cpmi/cpmi-iosco-cyber-resilience-fmi-2016/sectors/statutory_boards_agencies/compliance/finding/INT-BIS-CPMI-INT-001-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-v1-014/
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RegLeg Specialist Panel, Misattributed source for a CPMI strategic phrase [RLB-F-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-Q014], RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research (May 26, 2026), https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j1/int/bis-cpmi/cpmi-iosco-cyber-resilience-fmi-2016/sectors/statutory_boards_agencies/compliance/finding/INT-BIS-CPMI-INT-001-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-v1-014/.
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@misc{reglegbrief_RLB_F_INT_BIS_CPMI_IOSCO_CYBER_RESILIENCE_FMI_2016_Q014,
  author    = {RegLeg Specialist Panel},
  title     = {Misattributed source for a CPMI strategic phrase},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research},
  note      = {Hallucination finding Citation ID: RLB-F-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-Q014},
  url       = {https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j1/int/bis-cpmi/cpmi-iosco-cyber-resilience-fmi-2016/sectors/statutory_boards_agencies/compliance/finding/INT-BIS-CPMI-INT-001-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-v1-014/}
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