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Industry solution

AI for trading & investment

We build AI systems that generate alpha, manage risk, automate operations, and keep investment firms ahead of regulatory requirements.

Typical time to production
3 to 8 wks
Less manual post-trade intervention
80%
Fewer settlement fails
60%
Delivery partners on automated payments
1,000+

The short answer

What does AI for trading and investment cover?

AI for trading and investment covers signal generation, portfolio risk analytics, market surveillance, research automation, regulatory reporting and post-trade operations. Agility delivers production-ready AI in 3 to 8 weeks, from signal generation to settlement.

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Use cases

AI use cases for trading and investment

From signal generation to settlement, production AI across the full investment lifecycle.

Algorithmic trading and signal generation

ML models that identify alpha signals across equities, FX, commodities, and derivatives, backtested and production-deployed with risk guardrails.

  • Quantitative signal discovery
  • Automated strategy backtesting
  • Low-latency execution integration

Portfolio analytics and risk intelligence

Real-time portfolio risk dashboards, factor exposure analysis, VaR modelling, and stress-testing frameworks built for investment teams.

  • Real-time risk attribution
  • Tail-risk stress scenarios
  • Factor exposure decomposition

Market surveillance and anomaly detection

AI systems that monitor trading activity for spoofing, layering, wash trades, and other market manipulation patterns, flagging them in real time.

  • Real-time manipulation detection
  • Regulatory alert generation
  • Pattern library across asset classes

Investment research automation

LLM-powered research assistants that ingest earnings calls, analyst reports, regulatory filings, and news, synthesising insights on demand.

  • Faster research synthesis
  • Sentiment and trend extraction
  • Automated earnings call analysis

Regulatory compliance and reporting AI

Automated MiFID II, EMIR, and CFTC reporting pipelines: reconciling trade data, generating submissions, and flagging exceptions.

  • Automated regulatory submissions
  • Trade reconciliation at scale
  • Exception-based human review only

Trade lifecycle and operations automation

Intelligent automation across post-trade processes: confirmations, settlement, reconciliation, and corporate actions processing.

  • Higher straight-through processing
  • Reduced fails and breaks
  • Corporate actions automation

Proof

Trading and investment case studies

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Trading operations automation

Automated end-to-end post-trade workflow, reducing manual intervention by 80% and settlement fails by 60%.

Payment and settlement automation

Streamlined payment processing for 1,000+ delivery partners with AI-driven exception handling.

Technology

Technology stack

  • Python / pandas / QuantLib
  • XGBoost / LightGBM / PyTorch
  • Azure ML & Databricks
  • Bloomberg & Refinitiv data feeds
  • FIX protocol integration
  • Apache Kafka for real-time streams
  • GPT-4 for research synthesis
  • Power BI risk dashboards

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