Effective financial management is imperative to the success and longevity of a company. When the business is new or relatively small, it’s usually possible to keep track of budgets, expenses and cashflow through spreadsheets and […]
How do BigData and AI help Anti-Money Laundering (AML)?
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine Learning (ML) and Anomaly Detection can be integrated and applied within anti-money laundering (AML) software, to help banks increase their AML efficiency and save billions in regulatory penalties. This article explores […]
Can IoT technology help insurance companies build more personalized and lower-risk products?
In every insurance contract negotiation, there are two main concerns for the involved parties. The insurance provider worries about making an accurate risk assessment, while the customer needs to justify to himself that he’s paying […]
The INFINITECH Marketplace: A Repository of Big Data and AI Resources for Digital Finance
In recent years, financial and insurance organization are producing large volumes of digital data from a variety of sources including traditional enterprise systems, e-banking and mobile-banking transaction processing systems, social media platforms, as well as […]
The KYKLOS 4.0 Digital Platform for the Federated Value Chains in the Circular Economy
During the last decade the advent of Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing have open up new opportunities for more flexible and optimized production processes. Thanks to the deployment of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) systems in […]
Value at Risk Calculation on High Ingestion Data for Real-Time Trading
Practitioners in the financial industry are commonly confronted with the task of estimating the risks of their positions. Specifically, risk estimation allows them to measure and control their risk exposure when planning their investment and […]
INFINITECH-RA: Structuring End-to-End Machine Learning Pipelines for Digital Finance
Recently, H2020 INFINITECH, Europe’s flagship project for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and BigData in Digital Finance, released the first version of its Reference Architecture (RA), which is conveniently called INFINITECH-RA. INNOV-ACTS is a member of the INFINITECH consortium and […]
Revolutionizing Wealth Management with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently disrupting several sectors of the economy and finance is no exception. There are many interesting uses of AI in the finance sector, including use cases with disruptive potential and opportunities […]
Securing Critical Infrastructures in the Finance Sector: The Top Five Challenges
In the era of globalization, the finance sector comprises some of the most critical infrastructures that underpin our societies and the global economy. In recent years, the critical infrastructures of the financial sector have become […]
Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM): A Simple Example
It’s quite easy to experiment with simple trading & risk assessment models using Python. One could start with the simple Capital asset pricing model (CAPM), which despite its limitations remains popular in various diversified portfolio […]