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Context Engineering for Financial Services

The hottest discussion in AI right now, at least the one not about Agentic AI, is about how "context engineering" is more important than prompt engineering, how you give AI the data and information it needs to make decisions, and it cannot (and must not) be a solely technical function. "'Context' is actually how your company opera...

04 July 2025 /ai /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

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Agentic AI Beyond the Buzzwords

“I’ll be honest” is a phrase that usually signals the opposite. So let me state upfront, I work in AI for a (mostly) FinTech vendor, and yes, we’re all talking about agentic AI. Vendors are selling it, top tier consultants are excitedly selling that they can integrate it, and customers seem to be either cautiously curious or waiting for the hype t...

27 June 2025 /ai /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

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Is the Job Title Quant Overused?

The job title Quant is ubiquitously used. While a dynamic, exciting and dynamic discipline, its breadth and meaning can obfuscate and cannibalize different roles. In recent times too, its integration, engagement and overlap with the growing data science and data engineering disciplines has added new dimensions and dynamics to its meaning. Quant h...

13 June 2025 /people /markets Analytics in Banking

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The Future of Contextual Risk Simulations and Scenarios

Simulations are important. It was ever thus since the dawn of computing, but they have become even more important in AI-infused complex business environments. Simulations are core to any organization’s toolkit for making optimal decisions. Combining simulations with domain models (ontologies) rooted in an organization’s platform, model and data ar...

03 April 2025 /ai /regulation Financial Risk Management

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Contextual RAG: Identify Risks and Opportunities without Over-Engineering

While AI models - large language models (LLMs) in particular - become more powerful and widely commoditized, the need for accurate, context-rich data grows ever more critical. In regulated industries, this becomes even more essential, as organizations must also ensure explainability and governance. For the modern organization, Contextual Retrieval...

03 March 2025 /ai /crime Financial Risk Management

Steve Wilcockson

The Data Structures That Drive Quant and AI

Our BizDev team at work asked me to explain why Data Management developed different cultures and languages to that of Data Science. I found this hard, in part because some of my background comes from engineering maths, which, for many years, was tightly coupled with the arguably adjacent Financial Services discipline of Quant, or Financial Enginee...

18 February 2025 /ai /regulation Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Steve Wilcockson

For Financial Services AI, DeepSeek Changed Everything and Changed Nothing

What Just Happened? The pace of change and events this last two weeks has been bewildering. I have below summarized what just happened with links to social posts with deeper insights, and also described how financial services need to react. DeepSeek launched their LLM to great acclaim. So too did Alibaba with their new Qwen model. However, DeepSe...

03 February 2025 /ai /regulation Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

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7 FinTech Techonomic and AI Predictions for 2025

I've had something of an eye for predicting change related to quant, fintech and computing trends, e.g. open source, data science, languages, risk/governance, perils and pitfalls of big data, stress testing, etc. Sometimes folk listened, other times not, and I was occasionally encouraged to make some sanitized corporate-friendly predictions public...

06 January 2025 /ai /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

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