The promise around artificial intelligence centres around advances in the field of deep learning. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning (derived from statistical learning) which seeks to learn data representations . Unsurprisingly, this ability of deep learning algorithms to detect patterns has exciting possibilities for the f...
“Switzerland is at the epicentre of a small revolution in the financial system”. - Richard Ettl (Head of Smart Containers group in Zug) by ....
Equity research has been one of the bedrocks of the finance industry. It uses a fundamental approach which is bottom-up in nature and involves the scrutiny of financial statements, annual reports and company press releases. Due to the ease and simplicity of the process, it is one of the first industry techniques taught...
Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) investing is a process where investors consider not only the financial factors but also ESG factors before making an investment decision. While ethical considerations in deciding investments is not new, the adoption has accelerated lately. In fact, in Europe . Moreover, as they demand not just financ...
New economy boosters, such as artificial intelligence and machine learning strongly affect the entire investment landscape. Many businesses that have already made strategic investments in AI have quickly realized that using AI successfully lies not only in the technology itself, but also in the ability to structure available data appro...
Segmenting clients across various lines using a pre-defined set of parameters has been a common phenomena across industries. As such, wealth management is no different from its other industry counterparts in relying on this practice. However, as the figure below suggests, in spite of the prevalence to segment clients across the wealth i...
Wealth management is undergoing a major upheaval due to the advent of cutting edge technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, the term AI is used fungibly to des...
AI has been on fast track in China with the rapid take-off of the sharing economy. One can rent anything from basketballs to apartments, umbrellas to songs. In the financial markets, top Chinese internet companies have been deploying AI in the investment decision making process. In the coming years, AI is expected to step up its engage...
There are two major players that stand out far in front of the rest in the global race for digital supremacy: Asia and the United States. In previous years, Europe has invested at least three times less than American and Asian tech giants. Europe has realized that it is not running fast enough. by Agata Mart...
Take part in FINTECH+ The Global Marketplace in Zurich on October 1st & 2nd, 2018 where the focus theme will be the impact of AI on financial services May 2nd, 2018 Zurich, Switzerland You can find the PDF version of press release . ...