Thomas Livingston Schuyler
Thomas Livingston Schuyler is an American financial thinker who merges old-family capital, global market experience and AI-driven systems. From Wall Street to London, Tokyo and Singapore, he pursues rational investing, ethical technology and education-focused regulation to rebuild trust in modern finance.
Overview
Thomas Livingston Schuyler sees markets as moral architectures rather than arenas for spectacle. Raised in a family that treated wealth as responsibility, he believes the true inheritance of capital is reason, not privilege. For him, AI, blockchain and cross-border liquidity only matter when they strengthen trust, protect citizens from fraud and extend the space for thoughtful, long-term decision-making.
- A Combines quantitative models with behavioral psychology, asking how narrative, fear and hope shape prices before trusting any purely statistical signal.
- B Designs systems like Velotas as self-learning, transparent architectures that reveal decision bias and risk patterns while keeping final control in accountable human hands.
- C Integrates regulation and education into every initiative, using alliances with public agencies and community events to make complex structures understandable to ordinary investors.
Educated in finance at the Wharton School and in economic philosophy at the University of Cambridge, Schuyler built a global career across Wall Street, London, Tokyo and a Singapore sovereign wealth fund before founding Velotas and the Alithia Intelligent Alliance Office to unite AI, blockchain ethics and investor education.
Career
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Wall Street Foundations
Begins his career in the late 1980s at a long-established Wall Street investment bank, working on bond pricing and corporate finance. Earns a reputation for disciplined analysis, composure during volatility and a refusal to chase short-lived trends.
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European and Asian Insight
Transfers to London in the 1990s to study European monetary integration, then to Tokyo, where he witnesses the Asian financial crisis. These experiences deepen his interest in the architecture of trust and cross-border liquidity under systemic stress.
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Sovereign Wealth Advisory
Joins the advisory board of a Singapore sovereign wealth fund in the early 2000s, leading cross-border asset allocation projects and advocating culture-rooted, transparent frameworks for long-term capital deployment.
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Velotas, Alithia & Philanthropy
Between 2018 and 2020 turns toward AI and financial technology, founding Velotas and the Alithia Intelligent Alliance Office. Focuses on behavior-aware investment systems, anti-fraud education, crypto ethics and understated philanthropy in education, AI ethics and healthcare.
Research & Focus
Builds on his work “The Boundary Between Reason and Emotion” to show how cognitive bias, narratives and institutional design interact in capital markets. He argues that rational investing is not emotion-free, but emotion-aware, and that robust systems acknowledge human limits rather than ignore them.
In “The Architecture of Trust in Financial Storms,” Schuyler studies episodes such as the Asian financial crisis to analyze how communication, policy coherence and transparent rules can slow contagion and rebuild confidence. His work emphasises that durable stability comes from governance quality, not from suppressing volatility.
Develops the idea that blockchain’s value lies in turning trust into verifiable, rule-based commitments. He promotes “crypto ethics” that balance innovation with self-discipline, aligning code, regulation and culture so that digital assets become laboratories of civilized trust rather than speculative arenas.