· Bhanu Pratap
· AI & Machine Learning
AI Hits the Plumbing: Trade Finance Gets Agentic, Hedge Funds Automate Alpha, and Regulators Finally Update the Rulebook
Three structural shifts landed in finance's engine room this week: Microsoft and three global banks demoed AI agents eating trade finance paperwork alive, Gen AI is now automating alpha generation at over 70% of hedge funds, and US regulators replaced a 15-year-old model risk framework — conspicuously leaving agentic AI out of scope.