Show me the Case for AI in Capital Markets

Capital markets are poised to be transformed by artificial intelligence (AI). Most firms have focused on using technologies to reduce costs, but AI has the potential to create value across organizations in new transformative ways. Source: Accenture Ours is an industry that has shown a willingness and ability to capitalize on emerging ideas, using them to differentiate…

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Apple, Oracle Dump Bonds and Create $300 Billion Hole in Market

As U.S. tax cuts prompt Apple Inc. and other tech companies to bring home their overseas cash hoards, it’s leaving a void in the market for short-term corporate bonds, where those firms had invested much of the money. That’s now making it more expensive for other companies to borrow. Source: Bloomberg   Once the biggest buyers of short-dated corporate…

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3 Trends Currently Reinventing the Financial Industry

As the next industrial revolution matures, many areas in banking and finance are being transformed. Some of the trends that are helping reshape the future of the industry include artificial intelligence, blockchain and open banking. Source: The Next Web Finance and trade is one of the oldest skills that mankind has developed after shaping the…

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Predictive Analytics in Financial Services

Source: The Financial Revolutionist When the big data boom grabbed headlines in the early 2000’s, it was because the high-tech industry allocated R&D efforts to develop new data-driven applications for their businesses. Out of these developments came the rise of predictive analytics. It should be noted that predictive analytics represents a different methodology from the more…

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