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Where does the growth of AI leave the role of the
human and the trader?
As AI rapidly reshapes capital markets, from the rise of agentic AI to workflow integration, NATASHA COCKSEDGE examines the evolving landscape, exploring the critical role of data foundations and human oversight, how the industry can balance opportunity with underlying risk, and the everevolving buy-side perspective.
Technological advancements have swept across capital markets over the last few decades, bringing a multitude of opportunities for every corner of the markets, spanning the buy-side, sellside, technology vendors, regulators and more. Chief among these innovations has been the increasingly advanced capabilities of Artificial Intelligence( AI). While some may have argued in the past that AI was fundamentally ill-suited to capital markets – in actuality, the technology has been around for a long time. AI has been continuously evolving and adapting, until recent developments meant that its impact is no longer able to be ignored, dominating headlines.
Large language models( LLMs) are of course a large part of the equation, and
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