“Learn about machine learning applications in the financial sector from algorithms to forecast financial data, to tools used in retail banking & pattern recognition in financial time series, to scaling predictive models, to wealth management, to using reinforcement learning for cross financial applications. This is a unique opportunity to interact with industry leaders, influential technologists,…
Month: March 2023
Open banking startup Abound nabs $601M to supercharge its AI-based consumer lending platform
“So the solution was obvious: build a system that taps open banking to get basic, real-time details about how an individual manages incomings and outgoings in a regular bank account; extrapolate insights from that data using AI; and create a new kind of credit score. This is what Abound took some three years to build…
SXSW 2023: Austin becomes the global center for AI & deep tech
“For the first time in a long time, the tech sector is experiencing a transformation. You’ve read about it in the news, heard about it in the break room, and you’ve seen it with your own eyes on social media. I’m talking about AI and what some are calling “deep tech” – those scientific advancements…
Banks Take Another Bite At The Apple With EWS Wallet
“The most significant danger to enabling such a transition is not Apple or Paypal but Plaid. The emergence of open banking and the drive for banks to expose consumer data to authorized parties enabled a whole new breed of companies. These companies can leverage bank APIs and existing ACH or RTP functionality to verify that…