AI in Trading 2026: Rising Regulatory Focus on Agentic Markets
Accountability, resilience, and the human role as AI-driven trading shifts from experimentation to market infrastructure As discussed in last week’s newsletter, agent-led execution continues to move from experimentation into core trading workflows. Machine-generated signals are now embedded directly into execution, risk, and surveillance frameworks – reshaping market microstructure in the process – and now the […]
AI in Trading 2026: Claude Code and the Rise of Agent-Led Markets
AI in Trading 2026: Claude Code and the Rise of Agent-Led Markets The buzz around Claude Code this week highlights a structural shift in how LLMs could be deployed in secondary markets trading. As discussed in last week’s newsletter (https://www.mindfulmarkets.ai/ai-in-trading-2026-from-shifts-to-signals-what-market-participants-are-watching/), AI-assisted execution is moving from experimentation into core workflows, with machine-generated signals embedded directly into […]
AI in Trading 2026: From Shifts to Signals – what Market Participants Are Watching
From Pilots to Production: How AI Is Already Reshaping Trading, Governance, and Market Structure Last week’s newsletter set out five structural shifts shaping the future of AI and markets in 2026 (https://www.mindfulmarkets.ai/ai-in-trading-2026-five-structural-shifts-to-watch/). This week, the focus is on what market participants are already starting to see in execution behaviour, governance conversations and organisational decision-making. The […]
AI in Trading 2026: Five Structural Shifts to Watch
From Model Gains to System Design: How 2026 Becomes the Year AI Trading Scales Safely 2025 clarified where AI creates real value in trading – and where it introduces unacceptable risk. In 2026, the industry moves beyond treating AI as isolated models embedded in workflows and toward deploying it as an operating layer across systems […]
From New York to London and Paris: What we learnt on AI in Trading in 2025
From hype to architecture: how agents, determinism, infrastructure, and regulation are reshaping AI in Markets It is hard to believe that it is not yet even a year since the #AIinTrading debate in New York – hosted by @SydneyBadman and @SamBeck of DBT with @BTON, @Imandra, @Sigma against a backdrop of genuine uncertainty. At the time, the industry was still asking […]
Something from the Weekend: Quantum Agents & the Case for Controlled Intelligence
Quantum perspectives, agentic systems, and the emerging architecture of trading under speed, stress, and physical constraints. This week’s newsletter highlights a growing pattern across markets, physics, AI systems, and regulation: in global, always-on, feedback-driven trading environments, purely linear thinking no longer scales. At the same time, trading systems cannot rely on models that are overly […]
Something from the Weekend: The new Agentic Superpowers – Building, Benchmarking & Agents building Agents – and the market consequences
How customized agents, agent-to-agent systems, and self-improving AI could reshape trading, infrastructure, and regulation 2026 appears set to be the year of Agentic Superpowers; specialized, customized AI trading agents are now outperforming general-purpose large language models in live crypto markets signalling significant progress over the last year (https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/13/crypto-s-machine-learning-iphone-moment-comes-closer-as-ai-agents-trade-the-market). However, the emerging end state is not […]
Something from the Weekend: AI in Trading gets real
Regulators Step Up, Wall Street Accelerates & Scotland’s New “Loch Ness Monster” (Opportunity) From the rise of agentic AI and evolving regulatory frameworks in Singapore and the UK to accelerating Wall Street adoption, rapid fintech innovation and Scotland’s push to become a green-AI hub, AI continues to reshape global financial markets. Entering 2026, the momentum […]
Something from the Weekend: AI, FMLS Markets, and the New Fault Lines
From Agentic Systems to Infrastructure Risk and Regulatory Pushback Apologies, this week’s newsletter is officially something FROM the weekend rather than for – working on a deadline. However … AI’s influence on global market structure increasingly shaping trading workflows, infrastructure resilience, governance expectations, and even geopolitical strategy. A consistent theme is emerging: AI – and […]
Something for the Weekend: What we learnt at Paris on AI in Trading – Two Years On
Agents entering workflows, retail AI execution emerging, institutions building agent platforms, and regulators tightening controls – with Eric Helene of AXA IM, Charles LeHalle and Hanane Dupouy and Iris Lucas of the AMF AI in trading may not be new, but its scope is rapidly expanding as agentic systems move from experimentation into real workflows. […]