Volatility isn’t the problem — it’s the proving ground.
In this closing keynote, Peter Finter, Chief Marketing Officer at KX, challenges how capital markets think about volatility, AI, and performance under pressure. As alpha windows shrink and market tempo accelerates, the firms that thrive are those who can turn volatility into opportunity — with the speed, trust, and scale to act in real time.
Drawing on insights from the 2025 Capital Markets Data Report and stories from leaders like Treehouse Labs, Guggenheim, B2C2, and MFS, Peter explores the three shifts separating leaders from laggards:
- From Models to Market Timing — collapsing the loop from idea to execution.
- From Fragmentation to Awareness — unifying structured and unstructured data for a full-market view.
- From Speed to Durable Speed — building performance that’s explainable, auditable, and resilient under pressure.
Plus, a bonus shift — from friction to alignment — showing how quants, CIOs, and data teams can finally move in sync to capture continuous advantage.
This is more than a talk about AI potential. It’s a roadmap for performance in practice — for firms ready to compete, adapt, and win in the new volatility era.
