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What asset managers, banks and vendors are doing with AI in research roles.
Why data vendors are scared, and how to deal with them as a researcher
Their interface is worth less every month and they cannot see what your agent does. That gives you more room at renewal than you have had in twenty years.
The standalone academic data platform is running out of reasons to exist
AI assistants now ship with vendor data inside and recognize the licenses a user already holds. The query screen is the part of the platform that does not survive.
AI has arrived for finance research, and data vendors cannot police it
Agents now operate a computer better than the human baseline on the standard test. Licenses forbid most AI use of data, and almost none of it can be detected.
AI is obliterating the pipeline from finance programs to industry jobs
Data vendors and AI companies now sell to banks and asset managers directly. The junior tasks that absorbed finance graduates are the first ones their products automate.
Developers are leaving Copilot and editor plugins for Claude Code and Codex
In six months Claude Code went from 18% to 39% of professional developers and Codex from 3% to 16%, while Copilot and Cursor fell. Price, tools and computer use explain it.
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.
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.