The Evolving Trading Desk: from Humans to Machines to AI-Assisted Humans Finance Magnates

This article was written By Henri Waelbroeck, Head of Research at Portware. Execution management has matured from laying the foundation for electronification by automating repetitive workflows to extracting progressively more value from the infrastructure as it evolves. Each generation in execution management technology has pushed automation one level higher in the decision hierarchy. The FM London Summit is almost here. Today, we are seeing the dawning of the next generation of execution management systems: one where AI works with the trader to combine the best of quantitative optimization (at speed and at scale) and the trader's domain knowledge.