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The UK launched its first bond consolidated tape, providing investors with a single, real-time source of pricing and trading activity across the UK bond market for the first time, operated by ETS Connect UK under FCA supervision.
A blog post discussing how increased granularity in systems, such as tick sizes in financial markets and time slots for booking sports courts, can introduce strategic gaming and inefficiencies, arguing that finer choices are not always beneficial.
Cory Doctorow discusses John Quiggin's argument that financial markets have failed at accurate asset valuation, using Elon Musk's post-2020 flops and the persistence of crypto and AI investments as examples of an economy driven by speculation rather than utility.
This paper presents a systematic survey and evidence map of 77 studies on LLM-based trading agents, finding that architectural experimentation is expanding rapidly but evaluation protocols, execution semantics, and reproducibility remain critical bottlenecks.
This paper introduces AI-Trader, the first fully automated live benchmark for evaluating LLMs in financial decision-making across US stocks, A-shares, and cryptocurrencies. It highlights that general intelligence does not guarantee trading success and emphasizes the importance of risk control in autonomous agents.