COVID-19 silver lining: experts predict innovation

Despite the human costs of the COVID 19 pandemic, more innovative use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in healthcare is one example on how this can be applied to enhance the financial industry. Source: CTV News MONTREAL — Despite years of discussions between politicians and doctors, the Quebec government couldn’t find a way to…

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Bond Buyer Matching AI

Over the past two years, we have witnessed profound changes in the fixed income marketplace with counterparties increasingly adopting quantitative investing and liquidity risk monitoring techniques. These include adoption of new methods of analysis such as AI analytics like COBI-Matching algorithm. Source: Overbond Fixed Income Artificial Intelligence The financial services market is embracing digital processes…

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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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These Ex-Traders are Trying to Drag Bond Markets into the Digital Age

Modernizing bond origination through fintech innovation Source: eFinancialCareers Plenty of people have left the trading floors of sell-side and buy-side firms to join or launch a financial technology startup, but in many cases fintech firms are focused on asset allocation, personal financial management or retail banking. Others focus on the trading floor, with a particular focus…

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Brexit: Opportunity For Fintech Innovation

The outcome of last month’s EU referendum in the United Kingdom is, by now, well-known: in a 52-48 vote, the Brexit vote passed, prompting PM David Cameron to resign and raising serious questions about the economic future of the United Kingdom. The global financial market responded, predictably, with immediate volatility: the following day, the pound…

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