Something for the Weekend: from Hype to Rewiring & Plumbing
From Scepticism to Integration – how AI is reshaping markets, workflows, and risk itself. When we launched this newsletter at the start of 2025, there was widespread scepticism that AI would ever meaningfully enter trading due to the inherent risks and regulatory hurdles. Less than a year later, that scepticism already feels outdated. AI is […]
Something for the Weekend: Trading Rewired – From AI to Quantum and the Rise of Intelligent Market Agents
Something for the Weekend: Trading Rewired – From AI to Quantum and the Rise of Intelligent Market Agents As AI reshapes the fabric of market microstructure, the next challenge lies in governance, resilience, and human oversight. Conversations in London last week with traders on how AI will be implemented in trading reinforced just how […]
AI for Planet: US Climate Week, Gas, Governance, and Greenwashing
As New York Climate Week 2025 draws to a close, this fortnight’s newsletter highlights the multiple, sometimes conflicting, ways artificial intelligence (AI) is shaping our climate future and geopolitics with it. On the one hand, Nvidia is backing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and pushing billions into Britain’s AI infrastructure—but only if gas and nuclear can prop it […]
Something for the Weekend: Trading on the Edge: Quantum, AI and the Next Wave of Market Innovation
How quantum computing as well as AI could soon reshape pricing, risk analytics and secondary-market liquidity From HSBC’s quantum-computing breakthrough in bond trading to OpenAI’s bid for an “AI USB-C,” this week’s developments reveal how data standards, regulation and faster language models are reshaping how markets discover liquidity, manage risk and govern emerging technologies. Here […]
Something for the Weekend – The Quiet Revolution
Something for the Weekend – The Quiet Revolution How Agentic Quant Research, Multi-Agent HFT and Reinforcement-Learnt Alpha Weighting are reshaping how markets trade: AI in Trading – 20th September 2025 Rebecca Healey September 20, 2025 While political headlines focus on US-UK trade pacts and big-ticket investments, a quieter but more profound shift is already underway […]
AI for Planet: Law, Lifecycle, and LatAm’s Digital Leap
AI for Planet: Law, Lifecycle, and LatAm’s Digital Leap From child-safety crackdowns and AI’s full lifecycle costs to breakthroughs in materials, frugal datacentres, and Latin America’s $1 billion green-tech leap, this week’s newsletter explores both the risks of unrestrained AI growth and the opportunities when it is guided responsibly. U.S. Attorneys General are pressing OpenAI […]
Always on Markets, Tokenisation, Deterministic Models & the Race for Sovereign Compute: AI in Trading – 14th September 2025
Always on Markets, Tokenisation, Deterministic Models & the Race for Sovereign Compute: AI in Trading – 14th September 2025 From secondary markets always-on, AI-driven era: OpenAI’s MCP plug-and-play promises; Nasdaq, Robinhood and BlackRock renewed push for tokenised shares and 24/7; Mira Murati’s deterministic AI improves reproducibility (just not yet accuracy); and the UK’s $2.5 […]
China’s AI transparency, tougher supervision, Palantir for Trading, T+1 regtech, and the MCP Buzz about Agents – This week’s AI In Trading – September 5
China’s AI transparency, tougher supervision, Palantir for Trading, T+1 regtech, and the MCP Buzz about Agents – This week’s AI In Trading September 5th 2025 I hope everyone is rested after the summer break. This week’s roundup tracks how AI is reshaping front-to-back trading workflows: China’s new AI transparency rules, the shift to real-time […]
AI for Planet: Communities vs Corporations for Greener Futures – August 30
AI for Planet: Communities vs Corporations for Greener Futures Transparency, trade-offs, and tech choices: Why context matters in building #sustainableAI From community pushback against data centres to debates over AI’s environmental impact, to the real-world consequences of tech growth – this week’s newsletter looks at the urgent need for transparency, equity, and smarter policy. Here’s […]
Trading on the Edge: GPT-5, Regulation, Bots, Research Bias & Geopolitics Collide – August 22
Trading on the Edge: GPT-5, Regulation, Bots, Research Bias & Geopolitics Collide As GPT-5 becomes trading infrastructure, the FCA raises the bar on oversight, retail bots fuel fragile hype, AI-driven research risks echo-chamber bias, and geopolitics disrupts chip supply, trading desks must balance innovation with governance to turn systemic risk into competitive edge. I took […]