Agentic Intelligence

Alicia Vidler is a senior researcher and financial markets expert working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and capital markets. With extensive experience in the finance sector, she co-founded and led an AI-driven hedge fund and held senior roles at global financial institutions including Merrill Lynch and Bank of America. She completed her doctorate at the University of New South Wales, Australia, under the supervision of renowned AI expert Professor Toby Walsh, focusing on the application of Agentic AI - agent-based modeling and large language models to bond markets. As a Visiting Academic at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv, she continues to expand her research internationally. Alicia is also a passionate advocate for gender diversity in finance, serving on the boards of several NGOs in this space. Her unique combination of industry experience and academic research positions her at the forefront of financial AI innovation.

Dedication.- Foreword.- Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Declarations.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The New Frontier of AI in Finance: Bond Markets.- 3. Agent-Based Market Modelling.- 4. Humans and Machines: Agentic AI methods in Markets.- 5. Large Language Models as Agents: Using LLMs in Financial Decision Making.- 6. LLMs in Strategic Decision Making.- 7. Agentic AI: Making It All Real.- 8. An Agentic Market Model for OTC Trading: TRIBE(LLM).- 9. Conclusion.- Appendix A. SugarScape ABM Model of the Australian Bond Market.- Appendix B. Complete experimental prompts.- Appendix C. LLM Runaway Conversations and Model Comparisons.- Appendix D. TRIBE(LLM) Detailed Pseudocode.