Ep. 235: Christian Schwarz on AI Bubbles, Using AI in Trading and Synthetic Data

Christian is Managing Director and Head of Data Science in the financial markets division at Standard Chartered. He focuses on credit and previously worked at Mizuho and Credit Suisse. His postgraduate studies were in financial mathematics. In this podcast we discuss:

• Are we in an AI bubble?
• Why have credit markets lagged other markets in adopting AI?
• Using generative AI to create synthetic data
• How to make synthetic data match real market behaviour
• Use cases for synthetic data from privacy to trading models
• LLM vs other techniques
• AI future: causal AI and agentic AI
• Books mentioned: Outlive (Attia), Net Gains (O’ Hanlon), The Book of Why (Pearl, MacKenzie)

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