AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (7) — F-PAL: A Framework for Organising Financial Product Attributes

AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (7) — F-PAL: A Framework for Organising Financial Product Attributes

Financial product models can feel overwhelming because of the sheer number of attributes involved. There are many product types, many market-specific conventions, and many fields that appear to describe small details. A single product may involve notionals, quantities, currencies, rates, spreads, indices, strikes, effective dates, termination dates, reset dates, fixing dates, payment dates, credit events, … Continue reading AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (7) — F-PAL: A Framework for Organising Financial Product Attributes

AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (6) – Payout = Leg?

Initially, I thought it might be too generous to allocate a whole article to what looks like a tiny terminology question. After all, is this really worth debating? In normal market conversation, people say "fixed leg", "floating leg", "premium leg", "protection leg", "cash leg", and "securities leg" all the time, and these terms work quite … Continue reading AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (6) – Payout = Leg?

AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (5) – One IRS Example: From Product Nature to ISDA CDM Structure

AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (5) – One IRS Example: From Product Nature to ISDA CDM Structure

Before getting into the CDM stuff, I want to take full credit for the suspiciously nice diagram in this post. It was hand-crafted by me (not AI)! In fact, not only for this article, I plan to create diagrams to visualise example products, ISDA CDM details, and eventually the knowledge graph around the semantic layer. … Continue reading AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (5) – One IRS Example: From Product Nature to ISDA CDM Structure

AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (4) – Literature Review: From Ontology to AI-Native Applications

After writing the previous article, What is a Financial Product at all?, I originally planned to move directly into a concrete overview example of ISDA CDM. However, while researching the semantic layer of QuantFlow, I came across an article about ontology modelling and AI-native applications. Although the article is not specifically about finance, I found … Continue reading AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (4) – Literature Review: From Ontology to AI-Native Applications

AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (3) – What is a Financial Product at all?

AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (3) – What is a Financial Product at all?

A few years back, I made an attempt to define and classify financial products from a data modelling perspective. I wrote about this in one of my earlier blog posts, Buy-Side Financial Data Models (2) – Financial Instruments. At that time, I organised financial instruments using a framework based on asset classes, derivative types, and … Continue reading AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (3) – What is a Financial Product at all?

AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (2) – FICC Canonical Data Model

AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (2) – FICC Canonical Data Model

In the previous post, I talked about why my thinking around QuantFlow has changed. The short version is that I am starting to believe that the future users of many financial data platforms may not be human quants, analysts, or engineers directly. Increasingly, the real users may be AI agents. However, there is one important … Continue reading AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (2) – FICC Canonical Data Model

AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (1) – Why I Started this Blog Series, and What Happens to QuantFlow

Since last year, my belief system around technology, skills, AI, and even the usefulness of myself has been changing. Not slowly evolving, but changing. I have always seen myself as a highly rational and logical person. I do not easily get influenced by hype slogans such as 'AI will replace everyone'. Even a few months … Continue reading AI-Native Financial Data Foundation (1) – Why I Started this Blog Series, and What Happens to QuantFlow

I Was Wrong: the Users of QuantFlow Won’t be Human

I Was Wrong: the Users of QuantFlow Won’t be Human

I have been planning the UX components and research engine for QuantFlow. I thought both would become key pillars of the platform. The UX layer would simplify how engineers build data pipelines and how quants interact with data. The research engine would automate large parts of the quant research workflow, allowing users to focus on … Continue reading I Was Wrong: the Users of QuantFlow Won’t be Human

QuantFlow: Brute-Force Grid Search for Stock Behaviour Patterns

QuantFlow: Brute-Force Grid Search for Stock Behaviour Patterns

Every stock behaviour pattern has parameters. A compression breakout depends on the rolling window. A VWAP reclaim depends on the volume threshold. A failed breakout depends on the forecast horizon. Change one number and a "profitable" pattern becomes noise. The typical workflow: tweak a parameter → rerun → query results → squint at a table … Continue reading QuantFlow: Brute-Force Grid Search for Stock Behaviour Patterns

QuantFlow: Detecting Trading Opportunities Through Market Lead-Lag Profiling

QuantFlow: Detecting Trading Opportunities Through Market Lead-Lag Profiling

Context: Some trading ideas often pop into my mind unexpectedly, but most of the time I am too lazy to investigate them further. The root cause of this "laziness" is not the effort required to explore the idea itself, but rather the amount of pre-work needed before I can actually start working on it. Collecting … Continue reading QuantFlow: Detecting Trading Opportunities Through Market Lead-Lag Profiling