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ConstraintProcess & self-service2016-07-19
In the EU, a person designated by senior management must authorise each deployment or substantial update of a trading algorithm, and records must show who approved every change
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Event date / reported
2016-07-19 · reported 2017-03-31
Evidence stage
ConstraintFailure, rollback, regulation or cost is suppressing adoption. Can lower an assessment or widen its uncertainty.
Tasks this bears on
Deploying strategies and answering for them
Taking strategies live, approving changes, and being the person responsible for what an algorithm does in the market.
Still human-led✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
European Union, investment firms engaged in algorithmic trading. Article 5 says a person designated by the senior management of the investment firm shall authorise the deployment or substantial update of an algorithmic trading system, trading algorithm or strategy, and that records must allow the firm to determine the person who made each change and the person who approved it; Article 3 requires risk and compliance staff with sufficient authority to challenge staff responsible for algorithmic trading. It names who authorises; it does not govern research methods.
What this means
Under EU rules, a named person switches an algorithm on and a record says who approved each change. An AI can write the strategy; it cannot be the person who authorises it.
What it does not yet show
An EU rule for investment firms; it does not measure how strategies are researched.
What you can check
Open Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/589 on EUR-Lex and read Article 5(2).
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event. Nor did this record change a layer: all 1 linked judgement above already rested on earlier evidence. This one adds to them.
Source
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/589 of 19 July 2016 (RTS 6, organisational requirements for algorithmic trading; OJ L 87, 31.3.2017) · verified 2026-09-29 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-09-29 · Claude (VOLO agent)
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