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Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Steve Wilcockson

Steve Wilcockson Product Marketing at Quantexa

Similarity Searches: The Neurons of the Vector Database

I recently wrote a Finextra piece entitled 3 GenAI Use Cases for Capital Markets; The Power of the Vector. In it, I discussed the increasing importance of the so-called vector database and vectors more generally to a whole range of quantitative finance applications. The term vector database, as I discussed in that piece, carries multiple, overload...

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Daniel Schlaepfer

Daniel Schlaepfer CEO at Select Vantage Inc

How should we regulate AI in trading?

The emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) boom has already seen a host of applications unveiled as supposedly advanced trading tools. Just this week we’ve seen the launch of Meta Trade Bot (unrelated to the Facebook-owning company), a cloud-hosted auto-trading tool designed to “eliminate human emotion in trading, enhance trading efficiency, and aim...

/regulation /markets

Richard Kalas

Richard Kalas Client Solutions Director for Retail Banking at GFT Group

Brits not letting apprehension put them off AI banking

Despite customers’ concern about banks using AI, they still want to make the most of opportunities the technology offers the banking sector, new research finds. The new research focuses on the innovation led by artificial intelligence (AI) and how it is affecting the experience of the modern banking customer. As we continue to witness the ongoin...

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Katie Hunter

Katie Hunter Senior Marketing Manager at Aveni

3 ways generative AI could boost your financial advisors today

It wasn’t so long ago that the thought of receiving financial–or any–advice from a machine would feel like something from a film, and likely heavily caveated with warnings about the robot uprising (we’re looking at you I, Robot/Terminator). Yet 2023 has seen us embrace advanced AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology like never before. It can be ...

Chandresh Pande

Chandresh Pande Consultant at TCS

Generative AI’s Impact on FX Markets

Abstract Technology and Finance are a match made in heaven. In the vast and intricate world of Finance, few areas have evolved technologically as much as FX trading over the past few decades. From being mostly voice based in the early 1990s to the lightning-fast algorithmic executions of the present, the transformation of FX markets shaped by tech...

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Retired Member

Retired Member 

AI: Do Regulators Have a Hope of Keeping Pace?

It’s hard to believe that it was only in November 2022 that ChatGPT was unleashed as one of the first mass-market AI applications. With its first birthday approaching, the speed with which ChatGPT is influencing our interactions with financial brands is moving faster than regulators can keep up with. AI is embedding itself into the global financia...

/regulation /crime

Dima Kats

Dima Kats Founder & CEO at Clear Junction

AI-nnovating Financial Compliance

The widespread adoption of technology within the financial industry, and the heavy streams of data being poured through financial institutions daily, have meant that compliance regulations have become increasingly complex and intricate. Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a critical role in this shift, particularly in the remittance sector. AI...

/payments /regulation

Oliver Tearle

Oliver Tearle Head of Technology Innovation at The ai Corporation

AI is getting smarter, but it still needs human guidance when it comes to fraud detection

Generative AI (such as OpenAI's ChatGPT) has generated an explosion of interest as numerous sectors have started understanding its unique capabilities for generating content based on simple prompts. There is much discussion about whether this new generation of AI will replace many skilled jobs, and at a basic level, it seems capable of doing so - ...

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Alister Sneddon

Alister Sneddon Head of Product - Invest at CMC Invest

From unknown power to trusted tool: how will AI evolve in the financial services industry?

While it may seem to some that AI has suddenly burst onto the scene, it was born in the 20th century and has been evolving ever since. The release of ChatGPT and Bing’s chatbot this year marked a significant growth in AI’s power, particularly for Large Language Models (LLMs), which learn faster - with less data and training required. In previous y...

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Scott Dawson

Scott Dawson CEO at DECTA

Can AI really change the payments industry?

The world is awash with news and articles on artificial intelligence (AI), and the payment industry is no exception. Recently we have learned that Mastercard have rolled out an AI tool to spot real-time payment scams, U.S Bank is using AI in business travel management, and conferences are filled with talks on an AI future. A year before, the fin...

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