GenAI
Bloomberg expands user access to new AI document search tool
An evolution of previous AI-enabled features, the new capability allows users to search terminal content as well as their firm’s proprietary content by asking natural language questions.
Everything’s a chatbot. Soon, your sales trader might be, too.
Morgan Stanley, Citi, and Kepler Cheuvreux are among firms considering making their internal AI assistants available to clients.
As agentic AI comes into play, buy side weighs outsourced options
Asset managers wanting to use sophisticated forms of AI must square their interest in the tool with mounting cost pressures.
Evalueserve tames GenAI to boost client’s cyber underwriting
Firm’s insurance client adopts machine learning to interrogate risk posed by hackers
Deutsche Bank delivers AI, client insights with ‘muscle memory’
Voice of the CTO: The German bank is taking finely honed skills and capabilities and deploying them for new and emerging use cases.
Study: RAG-based LLMs less safe than non-RAG
Researchers at Bloomberg have found that retrieval-augmented generation is not as safe as once thought. As a result, they put forward a new taxonomy to help firms mitigate AI risk.
Project Condor: Inside the data exercise expanding Man Group’s universe
Voice of the CTO: The investment management firm is strategically restructuring its data and trading architecture.
BNP Paribas explores GenAI for securities services business
The bank recently released a new web app for its client portal to modernize its tech stack.
Bloomberg rolls out GenAI-powered Document Insights
The data giant’s newest generative AI tool allows analysts to query documents using a natural-language interface.
DeepSeek success spurs banks to consider do-it-yourself AI
Chinese LLM resets price tag for in-house systems—and could also nudge banks towards open-source models.
Saugata Saha pilots S&P’s way through data interoperability, AI
Saha, who was named president of S&P Global Market Intelligence last year, details how the company is looking at enterprise data and the success of its early investments in AI.
Are we really moving on from GenAI already?
Waters Wrap: Agentic AI is becoming an increasingly hot topic, but Anthony says that shouldn’t come at the expense of generative AI.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 310: SigTech’s Bin Ren
This week, SigTech’s CEO Bin Ren joins Eliot to discuss GenAI’s progress since ChatGPT’s emergence in 2022, agentic AI, and challenges with regulating AI.
A new data analytics studio born from a large asset manager hits the market
Amundi Asset Management’s tech arm is commercializing a tool that has 500 users at the buy-side firm.
Microsoft exec: ‘Generative AI is completely passé. This is the year of agentic AI’
Microsoft’s Symon Garfield said that AI advancements are prompting financial services firms to change their approach to integrating AI-powered solutions.
Fitch claims 20% developer productivity boost using AWS GenAI tools
The vendors have expanded an existing deal to include new Amazon tools that have helped Fitch modernize its infrastructure and applications.
Waters Wavelength Ep. 308: Arta Finance’s Caesar Sengupta
Caesar, who previously spent 15 years at Google, joins to discuss Arta’s goal of putting a private banker in everyone’s pockets.
Hyperscalers to take hits as AI demand overpowers datacenter capacity
The IMD Wrap: Max asks, who’s really raising your datacenter costs? And how can you reduce them?
The murky future of buying or building trading technology
Waters Wrap: It’s obvious the buy-v-build debate is changing as AI gets more complex, but Anthony wonders how trading firms will keep up.
For AI’s magic hammer, every problem becomes a nail
A survey by Risk.net finds that banks are embracing a twin-track approach to AI in the front office: productivity tools today; transformation tomorrow.
On GenAI, Citi moves from firm-wide ban to internal roll-out
The bank adopted three specific inward-facing use cases with a unified framework behind them.