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The Quant Advantage is Disappearing | Aditya Jha, CEO of Itoflow

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In this episode of FinTech Focus TV, Toby Babb is joined by Aditya Jha, CEO of Itoflow, to explore how AI is making quantitative capabilities more accessible and changing where the real edge in trading comes from. They discuss why better code may no longer be the differentiator it once was, how AI can remove much of the repetitive work behind quantitative research, and what happens when more people gain access to technology previously concentrated within the world’s leading hedge funds and f...

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