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Freddie McMahon

Director Strategy and Innovation

DF2020 Ltd

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Towards AI Agents: addressing rule-based governance deficiencies

In the corporate governance landscape, the structural integrity of documented policy and procedural rules stands as a linchpin for organisational order and control. The analogue nature of these documents masks deep algorithmic weaknesses, leaving decision-making vulnerable to risks, often hidden in plain sight. Despite the advent of AI Agents offe...

17 April 2024 /regulation /sustainable Artificial Intelligence

Digitised ESG enables broader and transparent corporate governance

Environment, Social and Governance metrics are here to stay. The ESG investment market has surpassed USD 30 trillion. Governance needs better ways to measure corporate behaviour. ESG metrics measure corporate behaviour and sustainability. ESG metrics is a shift from intangibles to tangibles. Achieve holistic governance using ESG and fina...

16 October 2020 /regulation /markets Trends in Financial Services

The emerging market to digitalise regulation is an USD 1,000 billion opportunity

Regulatory distribution is systemically broken The conventional way governments distribute rules for use by citizens, businesses, other private actors and for the institutions of government is through documents and other forms of content. As highlighted in an earlier paper “The Dangerous Risk of Interactions with Regulation”[i], the use of docume...

16 July 2020 /regulation /cloud Fintech innovation and startups

The dangerous risk of interactions with regulation

Now is the time to challenge convention Our interactions with regulation play a ubiquitous and increasing role in the world economy. Individuals and organizations interact with regulation to ensure compliance and safeguard actions within firms, between firms and all the way through markets to the end consumer. Given the pervasive nature of interac...

28 May 2020 /regulation /covid-19 Financial Services Regulation

INNOVATION. REGULATION. KNOWLEDGE. CHATBOTS.

INTRODUCTION Innovation is about changing the status quo in a way that adds value to stakeholders. To demonstrate adding value requires measurement. With this clear definition of innovation, lets apply it to regulation. THE REGULATORY FABRIC AS A MARKET The scope of this challenge is huge as the regulatory fabric impacts every person and every o...

11 November 2019 /ai Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Regulation Chatbots: Knowledge First, Data Second

Data is the enabler for any digital strategy. Organizations need timely and accurate data from human interactions. This is an imperative for sensing early and responding quickly to ever changing circumstances. We all collect data from customers, employees and suppliers using forms, checklists and surveys. This data must be of high quality otherwise...

11 July 2019 /ai /regulation Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

When are we going to rethink how regulations are applied in practice?

By Regulation we mean national law and its extensions such as defined by Regulators and Standards, and the way its applied in practice through Policies and Procedures. The problem is compounded through International Trade and Operations, which covers Regulations from multiple jurisdictions. An annual CEO survey has identified regulation overload a...

04 May 2019 /regulation Finextra site news

Regulation Chatbots: The Machine versus Human Redline

The growing recognition of new value creation from using chatbots has amplified market hype, even though there are many genuine cases delivering benefits. This growing momentum has cultivated a populist belief that natural language processing, powered by machine learning, is fit for purpose in any context. Furthermore, it has cultivated a sense-mak...

09 April 2019 /ai /regulation Innovation in Financial Services

CHATBOTS: The digitalisation of knowledge through a new lens

79% of executives now believe seamless and digital access to knowledge is very important to overall business performance. Executives understand that there is too much dependency upon knowledge in people’s heads. And, even when it is documented, there is inadequate transparency and traceability to the way it is used to make decisions, when applied ...

22 January 2019 /ai /regulation Digital Banking Trends

CHATBOTS: TRANSFORMING KNOWLEDGE FROM MONOLOGUE TO DIALOGUE

Knowledge monologue is pervasive All over the world, employees, customers and citizens are expected to read, understand and action the knowledge found in so many documents: policies, regulations, statutes, assessments, standard operating procedures, manuals and instructions. This knowledge represents a plethora of rules contained in pages and pa...

10 November 2018 /ai Digital Banking Trends

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