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Following his speech at Wonderland AI, we caught up with Nicholas Lane to discuss how the concept of “Flower” is changing the way federated learning is done.

Nick Clegg Interview: Facebook Has Always Been A ‘Hostile Place To The Truth’

November 3, 2021

Yesterday at Web Summit, Matthew Garrahan, News Editor of the Financial Times, was joined (virtually) onstage by Sir Nick Clegg.

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‘CryptoDad’ was discussed in an interview between Scott O’Mallia, Chief Executive Officer of the International Swaps & Derivatives Association (ISDA) and J. Christopher Giancarlo, Senior Counsel, Wilkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and former Commodity Futures Trade Commission (CFTC) Chairman. The conference forms part of the ISDA Regional Events program.

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Guangzhou: The Beating Heart of China’s Electric Vehicles Push

October 20, 2021

The development of electric vehicles can almost be read as a case-study in the success of the Chinese economy since the late seventies: an example of the long-term economic planning, and shrewd government investment, that has allowed the private sector to flourish – albeit under the iron fist of the state.

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Leveraging data in the fight against fraud

October 19, 2021

With the help of technology, fraudsters’ arsenal has become more sophisticated over the years. Fortunately, so have the tools of fraud fighters. SEON has risen to rank among the most successful Hungarian startups by providing fraud prevention solutions to a wide range of businesses. Tamas Kadar, co-founder and CEO of the company, explained to us what underlying dangers digitisation brings, and how leveraging Big Data can help us take on a new generation of fraudsters.

The New Frontier of Digital Transformation

August 10, 2021

"Big Tech understands customer domains and uses data to understand, anticipate, and meet customer needs in a manner which creates great customer experiences."

Capital Markets Fintech Technology

Making the trading business cycle streamlined, with Tradologics

July 12, 2021

“We’ve set up a platform that will allow you to build your own bespoke trading platform – a platform that can trade any asset class, on any broker, using any coding language. It’s a completely agnostic approach.”

Digital Assets Fintech Technology

How is DeFi eating traditional finance?

July 6, 2021

Arthur sees DeFiance as a crypto investment fund, based on the traditional model of investing client money to realise returns, but all within the alternative DeFi ecosystem.

Capital Markets Technology

Another Tech firm IPO, but is UiPath just another Tech firm?

April 23, 2021

In 2017, UiPath introduced their vision of ‘a robot for every person.’ Borrowed from Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who, in the 1970s, set the goal of putting a ‘computer on every desk.’ Dines has predicted similarly, that there would be a software robot for every person.

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The Tech Investor making waves on Wall Street

April 14, 2021

Cathie Wood herself has become controversial for this reason, a ‘love her or hate her’ figure for many in the industry. But the huge returns generated by Ark’s ETFs – all five gained over 100% last year – mean that, either way, she is now impossible to ignore.

Cybersecurity Technology

The Quantum Dilemma that Banks Must Face

February 24, 2021

“The newest technology of the future won’t be able to tell that you are using an exotic protocol. A lot of companies are afraid of attacks, and for them so they wouldn’t want to advertise necessarily that their network has an exotic protocol. Our VPN means that from the outside companies can remain incognito and nobody can tell if they are protected by anything other than standard cryptography.”

Banking Technology

Big regulation for BigTech?

February 23, 2021

FaceBook’s recent ‘unfriending’ of Australia, as prime minister Scott Morrison put it, is an ongoing, high-profile example of the high-stakes arena, while the UK is to shortly launch a Digital Markets Unit to (in the government’s words) ‘introduce and enforce a new code to govern the behaviour of platforms that currently dominate the market, such as Google and Facebook’.

Investment Banking Technology

Innovation in Illiquid Credit Portfolio Management solutions

January 29, 2021

Accepting illiquidity risk can give very high returns, so many investment banks are also involved in this area. And, just like any other area that Investment banks operate in, there is scope for improvement. Much of the work is still manual and telephone based and there is need for both automation and better analytics.

Banking Technology

Collaboration and the future of digital banking: Elina Mattila at Mobey Forum

October 6, 2020

Mobey Forum is a place where banks can come together in a commercially neutral environment to exchange experiences and learnings and identify best practices. It’s a forum where banks can discuss what has worked and what hasn’t with peers from other non-competing banks. We provide the platform for those types of discussions in our Member Meetings and in our Expert Groups – both of which always take place under Chatham House Rules to increase the level of trust and enable openness and frank discussions of the real issues.

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#DisruptionChat – Silicon Valley of the Balkans invites you to WonderlandAI

May 27, 2020

With the rise of Lieberland and now WonderlandAI, Serbia is becoming a hotbed of innovation and tech, and Jovan Stojanovic is one of the leaders of this drive in the Balkans.

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