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Global Markets Research
Introducing Fundamental Research Labs
How PIANO Architecture drives specialization and reliability in AI-powered equity research workflows.
May 26, 2025AI for Finance Symposium: Key Takeaways
Evaluation discipline, randomness control, and context engineering — the three themes shaping AI adoption at ICAIF '25.
May 20, 2025Context Engineering in Practice
Why structured internal data and firm-specific frameworks dramatically improve AI workflow quality for investment teams.
May 12, 2025Evaluation as the Core of AI Deployment
How leading firms are shifting from testing individual models to evaluating entire research workflows end-to-end.
Apr 28, 2025Controlling Randomness in Investment AI
Why output stability and determinism matter more than raw capability when deploying AI in investment processes.
Apr 15, 2025PIANO Architecture: Deep Dive
A technical look at how specialized agent pipelines separate retrieval, reasoning, memory, and validation for better results.
Apr 2, 2025LLMs and Generative AI for Finance
Insights from the ACM ICAIF workshop on practical challenges of bringing large language models into production finance workflows.
Mar 18, 2025From Prototype to Production in Finance
Lessons learned from BlackRock, Fidelity, and Lion Global on moving AI research tools from experimentation to daily use.
Mar 5, 2025The Case for Deterministic AI Models
IBM's research shows smaller 7-8B models can deliver fully deterministic outputs while larger models lose stability.
Feb 20, 2025