“THE HIDDEN RISK IN AUTOMATED MARKETS: NO ONE SAYING ‘WAIT’”“MACHINES CAN TRADE. BUT CAN THEY GOVERN?”

At a recent event hosted by the Asian Institute of Management in Manila, Joseph Plazo—the founder of AI trading firm Plazo Sullivan Roche— argued that automation may have outpaced accountability.He offered a sober reminder: faster trades are not always wiser ones.“If you allow a machine to manage your portfolio,” he said, “ensure it refle

Everyone expected triumph. Instead, it became a confrontation. At the University of the Philippines' famed lecture theater, delegates from NUS, Kyoto, HKUST, and AIM assembled to witness the gospel of AI in finance.They expected Plazo to hand them a blueprint to machine-driven wealth. They were wrong.---### When a Maverick Started with a Paradox