IB9TF-15 Agentic AI for Finance
Introductory description
ChatGPT and large language models have had massive impact on business practice in just a few years. However, the second wave of these technologies, their development and deployment as specialised automation tools (agents) promises to be significantly more impactful and transformative. The practice of Agentic AI comprises of the training methods, system architectures, information systems that support the system, deployment methods and the ethical & strategic choices required to make AI agents succeed in business deployments. This module will consider all of these areas, specifically in reference to the finance sector. In doing so, participants will gain experience on all the key aspects of Agentic AI as one of the key financial technologies of our time - from technical development to strategic implementation.
Module aims
This module incorporates the full range of topics relevant to Agentic AI developments in finance, including:
Applications and use-cases for agent automation in finance;
Process analysis and re-engineering methods;
How Agentic AI system should be designed and architectured for financa applications;
Training, fine-tuning and information/memory retrieval systems;
Supervision, human-in-the-loop and governance of Agentic AI systems;
Managing, scaling and integrating Agentic AI within a resource based view of the business.
Outline syllabus
This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ.
The module will cover the following topics:
AI from chatbots to agents
Agentic AI applications in finance
Business process analysis, re-engineering and optimisation
Agent training and fine-tuning methods
Agentic AI environments: Tools and Module Context Protocol
Agentic AI environments: Information retrieval and memory
Agentic AI environments: Supervision, human-in-the-loop and governance
Agentic AI in finance: Case studies
Ethics and strategy in Agentic AI
Learning outcomes
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
- Develop a sophisticated and practical understanding of Agentic AI concepts, use cases and risks.
- Engineer and optimise business processes as both human/agent collaboration or fully automated Agentic AI systems.
- Critically analyse business use cases.
- Critically analyse architectural design choices.
- Crtically evaluate Agentic AI use-cases and applications with key consideration of ethical, strategic and operational dimensions.
Indicative reading list
Reading lists can be found in Talis
Subject specific skills
Design cutting edge Agentic AI environments, incorporating information resources, tools and supervision methods.
Demonstrate programming and software development skills.
Demonstrate business process design and optimisation skills
Deploy agent system design, implementation and monitoring.
Apply the above in the finance domain.
Transferable skills
Communication skills.
Problem solving.
Team working skills.
Study time
| Type | Required |
|---|---|
| Lectures | 9 sessions of 1 hour (6%) |
| Other activity | 18 hours (12%) |
| Private study | 49 hours (33%) |
| Assessment | 74 hours (49%) |
| Total | 150 hours |
Private study description
Private study to include preparation for lectures/workshops and own reading
Other activity description
9x2 hrs F2F workshops
Costs
No further costs have been identified for this module.
You do not need to pass all assessment components to pass the module.
Assessment group A
| Weighting | Study time | Eligible for self-certification | |
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Assessment component |
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| 3,000 word analysis of a key area of Agentic AI in finance (written discussion and code) | 80% | 59 hours | Yes (extension) |
Reassessment component is the same |
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Assessment component |
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| 10 minute group video presentation | 20% | 15 hours | No |
Reassessment component |
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| 1,000 agent system design report | Yes (extension) | ||
Feedback on assessment
Written feedback for both components.
Courses
This module is Optional for:
- Year 1 of TIBS-H60Z MSc Financial Technology