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China, Japan and Korea publish most of their finance and AI news in their own languages. These entries are translated from the originals, with a link to each.
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Asia 2 / China 4 / Japan 2 / South Korea 2 / Taiwan 1CNRDS, China's research data platform, sells 17 data series to universities and offers agents no way in
The Chinese counterpart to WRDS covers AI patents, ESG and annual report text. Access needs a school subscription, proof of affiliation and a signed agreement.
East and West are heading in opposite directions on AI in research
Western universities are spending fast on AI while their own staff resist it. In Asia the regulator, the employer and the researcher point the same way, and the shift is faster.
Researchers in China, Japan and Korea run whole papers through coding agents and post how
Their own forums and blogs describe pipelines of 30 agents, a seven-week paper with 108 experiment runs, and an eight-hour draft. Every account keeps the checking for a person.
Agents can propose investment factors, but a frozen referee has to judge them
A working paper splits factor research in two and finds that a referee the agent cannot touch admits 5 to 11 times fewer false factors.
Daiwa Securities moves its Sakana AI consulting platform from trials into production development
Sakana AI, the Tokyo lab behind The AI Scientist, is building a total-asset consulting system for Daiwa under a partnership signed in October 2025.
Korea's financial regulator loosens network separation so firms can use AI
The Financial Services Commission will exempt firms with strong security from the rule that keeps their internal systems off the internet, and it is reviewing full repeal.
A paper-writing pipeline for Claude Code went from 6,400 GitHub stars to 51,000 in five months
academic-research-skills runs 32 agents across ten stages with two integrity gates. Its builder says the checks caught 15 fabricated citations in one real paper.
Mirae Asset moved research assistant work to AI and made the assistants junior analysts
The Korean broker renamed its research unit the AI Research Center and expects an analyst to cover 20 to 30 stocks, up from 10 to 15, BizWatch reports.
Chinese brokers put DeepSeek-V4 into use within hours of its release
Guotai Haitong deployed the model on release day, 24 April 2026, and Industrial Securities reports full integration in two hours, according to National Business Daily.
China's quant funds are turning their trading compute into AI labs
Shanghai Securities News names four quant managers with their own institutes, supercomputing centers or open source models, and asks which will produce the next DeepSeek.
Japan's financial regulator tells firms not to hold back on AI for fear of risk
The FSA's revised AI paper says customer-facing use, almost absent in late 2024, is now being launched in limited form, and that firms need not solve every problem first.