Artificial intelligence is transforming the financial sector in several ways:
1) AI is being used for predictive analytics and automation to make better and cheaper predictions about risks, trades, customer service, and more.
2) Many tasks performed by humans are being automated through the use of AI.
3) AI allows for new products and markets to emerge through innovation.
4. AI is an umbrella term
AI
Machine
learning
Deep
learning
NLP
Predictive
analytics
Rule-based
systems
5. The BLUF
Better, cheaper predictions
Risk management, trading, advising, KYC, credit
assessments
Automation of human tasks
Customer service, advice, interfaces, back office
process
Product innovation
New products and markets will open up
WHAT NEW SOURCE OF ALPHA
Judgment
Experience,
intimacy
Agility or
monopoly
8. Good as human: captioning
8
Complex Tasks: Image Caption Generation
http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.4555 “Show and Tell: A Neural Image Caption Generator”
17. In Q3 2016 VC-backed finch companies raised
$2.4B across 178 deals
Overall fintech investment reached $2.9B
18. BENEFITS
Faster actions and decisions (e.g. for fraud detection)
Better outcomes (e.g. for portfolio optimisation)
Greater efficiency (i.e. better use of highly skilled
people or expensive equipment)
Lower costs (e.g. reducing labour costs with
automated telephone customer service)
Greater scale (i.e. performing large-scale tasks
impractical to perform manually)
Product and service innovation (from adding new
features to creating entirely new products)
20. “I suspect that it’s going to transform all aspects of the financial
industry”
Andrew Lo, Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the MIT Sloan School of Management
Euromoney Institutional Investor Thought Leadership survey of 424 senior executives from financial institutions around the world
21. Within 15 years, 68%expect to see
complete or substantial change to their own
jobs.
4/10 fear it will have a negative effect on the structure of
the workforce sooner – within the next three years.
Euromoney Institutional Investor Thought Leadership survey of 424 senior executives from financial
institutions around the world
24. “In five to ten years, half of all financial advisors will be gone”
Ric Edelman, Edelman Financial Services, top financial advisor in US
25. Identifies and executes trades
entirely on its own
AI that runs across on
thousands of machines
Uses evolutionary computation
and deep learning
Automatically recognizes
changes in the market and
adapts
HEDGE FUNDS: AIDYIA
26. Numerai: collective artificial
intelligence to make stock market
predictions.
Data scientists submitted over 12
billion equity price predictions in less
than a year
STOCK MARKET PREDICTIONS
30. Challenges - opportunity identification & ethical execution
How to identify opportunities
How to build capabilities &
culture
How to manage business model
challenges
How to deal with humans
How to manage risk in the face
of systemic cascades