{"id":5935,"date":"2026-06-06T05:44:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=5935"},"modified":"2026-06-06T05:44:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:44:39","slug":"these-ai-gurus-are-charging-wall-street-banks-25-000-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=5935","title":{"rendered":"These AI gurus are charging Wall Street banks $25 000 a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"textFreeArticle\">\n<p>Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang cash big cheques telling Wall Street bankers what\u2019s missing from their AI plans.<\/p>\n<p>On a March afternoon, the two highly sought-after trainers in finance addressed employees of a venture capital fund in New York. Wang, 31, showed how Gemini, the AI model developed by Alphabet Inc\u2019s Google, could be used to analyse founders\u2019 pitch videos.<\/p>\n<p>He demonstrated how a web application incorporating behavioural analysis methods used by the FBI could help compare a transcript with visual cues such as body language and facial expressions to spot potential red flags.<\/p>\n<p>Sinisterra, 30, then walked the class through\u00a0how\u00a0to scan transcripts from earnings calls\u00a0with OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT and Anthropic\u2019s Claude to find the most market-moving statements. The machine ran\u00a0sentiment analysis and translated management\u2019s spoken remarks into numerical spreadsheet inputs\u00a0to forecast future financials. Participants could see how AI could help streamline some of the most labor-intensive parts of their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Wall Street sees AI bubble coming and is betting on what pops it<\/p>\n<p>The bill for the day? $25 000. And they are backlogged for two months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is happening now is that people are seeing AI as a source of edge, a source of offense,\u201d said Sinisterra. \u201cWhat we\u2019ll see in the future is that people will see it as a necessity.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1836505\" style=\"width: 565px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1836505\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1836505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4568220771-555x353.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4568220771-555x353.jpg 555w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4568220771-1024x651.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4568220771-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4568220771-1536x976.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4568220771-2048x1302.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4568220771-178x113.jpg 178w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4568220771-230x146.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4568220771-744x473.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1836505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sinisterra, right, and Wang, left, give a class on AI workflows to members of a venture fund in New York in March. Image: Jos\u00e9 A. Alvarado Jr.\/Bloomberg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Big banks, caught up in AI angst, are looking to hire more AI specialists and shrink traditional banking roles. Standard Chartered Plc is preparing to axe thousands of support positions over the next four years. Citigroup Inc, Wells Fargo &amp; Co and Bank of America Corp have collectively cut more than 5 000 jobs in the first quarter of 2026, despite having a record earnings season.<\/p>\n<p>Top executives,\u00a0willing to spend top dollar to\u00a0deploy the technology beyond basic tasks, are\u00a0experimenting with AI tools themselves, building pressure to embed the technology across the ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Sinisterra and Wang, former SoftBank fund managers, are selling confidence and fluency to firms hungry for that transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Wall Street Prompt, the company they founded in July 2025, has worked with T. Rowe Price Group Inc, Citigroup and Bank of America, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>T. Rowe Price has brought the pair in to train its investment professionals, the people said. Citigroup and Bank of America have used them to run sessions for their external fund clients. Wall Street Prompt, bound by non-disclosure agreements, declined to confirm its client list. T. Rowe Price, Citigroup and Bank of America also declined to comment on vendor-specific training.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Wall Street banks cut 5 000 jobs even as they notched record profits<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The rising skill bar\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Financial institutions weren\u2019t always enthusiastic about AI.\u00a0In 2022, when\u00a0ChatGPT was launched, major global banks restricted the chatbot\u2019s access on internal networks over fears of security lapses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"visible-sm-block visible-xs-block m1010\">\n<div class=\"ad-container-wrapper\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Since then, JPMorgan has rolled out LLM Suite, a generative AI tool used by most of its employees. Goldman Sachs is working with Anthropic to develop AI agents. Bank of America says its 18 000 developers are 20-25% more productive after using AI.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pullquote\" data-align=\"center\">\n<p class=\"passage\">\u201cWhat is happening now is that people are seeing AI as a source of edge, a source of offense.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Still, many bankers lack the training to use AI tools effectively, while others are stuck on outdated models, a mismatch that\u2019s created\u00a0a need for trainers who are able to get the most out of these AI systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest challenge inside a large bank isn\u2019t the technology, it\u2019s the people,\u201d said Jake Bridge, APAC managing director at Evolution, a UK-based tech recruitment firm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scale of Luddite to AI super adopter is very broad;\u00a0the biggest challenge in a bank is, well, how do you cater for both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asia leads in embedding AI into banking and finance, where payments, lending and customer service are increasingly automated.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly in Singapore, AI fluency is increasingly becoming a prerequisite for anyone seeking a career in the sector. The city-state ranks first among 174 countries on the International Monetary Fund\u2019s AI Preparedness Index, and 64% of its financial institutions are deploying AI across key\u00a0business functions, according to a 2026 survey\u00a0by London-based financial software firm Finastra.<\/p>\n<p>Wang and Sinisterra are now considering moving there to tap demand from banks and finance professionals fighting to safeguard their positions and remain employable.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Why the world\u2019s banks are so worried about Anthropic\u2019s latest AI model<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1836499 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456530972-555x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456530972-555x384.jpg 555w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456530972-1024x709.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456530972-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456530972-1536x1064.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456530972-163x113.jpg 163w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456530972-230x159.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456530972-744x515.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456530972.jpg 2010w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Duncan, a 55-year-old in Singapore who declined to give his full name, spent his evenings and weekends last year in a class backed by Nanyang Technological University, practicing how to use AI. His employer, a major bank, previously moved its Singapore operations to a lower-cost center abroad.<\/p>\n<p>After being jobless for nine months, he landed a job last month as a back-office worker at a Singaporean bank and feels hopeful about his new skills.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>While several executives have credited AI for the productivity gains, concerns are deepening that strong balance sheets may no longer be enough to keep jobs safe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The analyst role will not disappear but it will thin from the bottom up, says Igor Sydorenko, CEO of Neurons Lab, an AI consultancy whose clients include HSBC and AXA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHighly skilled people, with AI tools, will be able to do 10, 20 times more, much better, much faster,\u201d he said. \u201cThey will not need any junior financial analysts, any associates. They will just do it by themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read: The rise of AI in financial services: Balancing innovation and integrity<\/p>\n<div class=\"visible-sm-block visible-xs-block m1010\">\n<div class=\"ad-container-wrapper\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1836503\" style=\"width: 565px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1836503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1836503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456824662-555x370.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456824662-555x370.jpg 555w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456824662-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456824662-170x113.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456824662-230x153.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456824662-744x496.jpg 744w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456824662.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1836503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A participant takes notes during an AI workflow class held by Wang and Sinisterra. Image: Jos\u00e9 A. Alvarado Jr.\/Bloomberg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Justin Tang, in Singapore, knows the anxiety of trying to bridge that gap. The buy-side analyst at hedge fund Regal Funds Management spent three years trying to teach himself AI in the margins of his day, during bus rides, between meetings and\u00a0in the quiet minutes when most people scroll.<\/p>\n<p>Then, last year, he met Wang and Sinisterra.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was like a lightbulb moment,\u201d said Tang. \u201cIt used to take me hours to analyse a company. Now I plug in a prompt, and in 90 seconds, I get the key points: what the company does, its core earnings drivers, the narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Tang has attended several Wall Street Prompt training sessions, including one hosted by Bank of America. Each class typically runs 20-30 people, he said, with seats covered by the host bank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t surprised when the top banks started offering classes from Wall Street Prompt to clients like us,\u201d said Tang. \u201cIt was more of a question of when rather than if.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tang mainly uses the\u00a0techniques he\u2019s learned for personal purposes,\u00a0but he also draws on it for his day job. At Regal, he restricts the tools to publicly available material like filings and earnings transcripts. Client data isn\u2019t fed in.??<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Children of immigrants<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sinisterra and Wang were both\u00a0involved in finance from their formative years, with an early penchant for technology. Sinisterra moved to the US from Colombia with his parents at age 6, while Wang was born in New York City, though his parents emigrated from China in the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Wang said he sold scripts for the online game RuneScape around the time he moved to Ohio at age 8.\u00a0As a Harvard undergraduate, Wang said he was one of five students\u00a0Lyft Inc recruited to promote its Boston expansion by handing out business cards on the street.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than stick to that, he said, he scraped student email addresses from local universities, ran mail-merge campaigns and built targeted coupon codes, generating enough referrals to pay his tuition.<\/p>\n<p>After interning at Blackstone Inc in 2016 and working with Morgan Stanley for over two years in 2017, he joined SoftBank\u2019s Latin America Fund in 2019, where he led crypto investing.<\/p>\n<p>He left roughly two and a half years later, and founded 99 Capital, a digital assets fund. He sold the fund\u2019s general partnership and walked away after it raked in returns for investors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was just very obvious to me,\u201d Wang said. \u201cIf I\u2019m spending about 30% of my time on developing AI playbooks and this is clearly the best returning year I\u2019ve ever had, this is where I should be spending 100% of my time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read: Trillion-dollar tech wipeout ensnares all stocks in AI\u2019s path<\/p>\n<div class=\"visible-sm-block visible-xs-block m1010\">\n<div class=\"ad-container-wrapper\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sinisterra joined Facebook as a software engineer out of college, and says his desk was 20 feet from Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s. After working at Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, he joined SoftBank as head of fintech in 2019, where he helped deploy more than $1.5 billion in investments.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pullquote\" data-align=\"center\">\n<p class=\"passage\">\u201cThe scale of Luddite to AI super adopter is very broad;\u00a0the biggest challenge in a bank is, well, how do you cater for both.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Working alongside each other at the Japanese tech investment company, the pair chatted constantly, each developing his own AI playbook.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wang left SoftBank\u00a0in 2022 and Sinisterra in 2023.\u00a0In the summer of 2025, they spent a month in San Francisco,\u00a0sharing an apartment and working out of a co-working space, while publishing\u00a0newsletters and posts on\u00a0AI and finance.<\/p>\n<p>The readers who kept coming back were hedge fund managers and financial analysts. The original plan was to build a data business, but the education opportunity proved more compelling, they said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople kept telling us we have the tools, we just don\u2019t know how to use them the way you do,\u201d Sinisterra said. \u201cThey wanted to learn, not buy more software.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Within two months of founding Wall Street Prompt in July 2025, a major investment firm reached out and\u00a0the duo took a two-hour train journey from New York to the firm\u2019s headquarters, where they trained the staff across equities, fixed income and macro teams, people familiar with the matter said.\u00a0 Attendees ranged from senior strategists to junior analysts.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all clients have returned for additional sessions, Sinisterra said, including a fund with more than $50 billion in assets currently finalising a contract. He declined to name it.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/Listen: Rebuilding investment strategies for the AI era<\/p>\n<p>Wang and Sinisterra are also iterating to maintain their edge. They have built a library of AI agents trained to grasp how a financial firm thinks. The goal, they said, is for AI to handle 90% of the logistical and technical work, freeing people to focus on relationships, judgment and the decisions that drive returns.<\/p>\n<p>The field is getting crowded. Multiverse, the London-based upskilling platform founded by Euan Blair, the eldest son of former UK prime minister Tony Blair, has committed to training 15 000 AI apprentices over two years with clients including Citigroup, Microsoft and KPMG.<\/p>\n<p>Rogo Technologies Inc, a New York startup whose founders include former Lazard and JPMorgan bankers, raised $160 million in a Series D round this year at a $2 billion valuation for software that automates the research and diligence work that once filled an analyst\u2019s day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1836501\" style=\"width: 565px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1836501\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1836501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456772871-555x370.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456772871-555x370.jpg 555w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456772871-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456772871-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456772871-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456772871-2048x1366.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456772871-169x113.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456772871-230x153.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/456772871-744x496.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1836501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wang takes questions during the class. Image: Jos\u00e9 A. Alvarado Jr.\/Bloomberg<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sinisterra and Wang are now building a live-webinar product for financial professionals who are feeling inadequately trained in AI and willing to pay around $1 500 each.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat people are really paying for is transformation, not just prompts or templates,\u201d Sinisterra said. \u201cWhat we do is come in and spark that shift. Everyone is already thinking about these changes.\u00a0They just don\u2019t know which direction to take.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#gurus #charging #Wall #Street #banks #day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felipe Sinisterra and Dave Wang cash big cheques telling Wall Street bankers what\u2019s missing from their AI plans. 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