#ItzOnWealthTech Ep 27: AI as a Gypsy Fortune-Teller with Robert Kirk from InterGen Data
“No one buys insurance because it’s on sale; you buy insurance because you bought something, you broke something, or you created something.” — Robert Kirk, InterGen Data, Inc. Robert Kirk is a financial services industry executive with over 28 years of experience in wealth management, clearance and settlement, and brokerage. Throughout his career, he has […]
We’re Running the AI Leg of a Digital Marathon in Wealth Management
If the information revolution were a marathon, then financial services would be in the beginning of the artificial intelligence leg of the race. That is according to a survey by Deloitte on how firms are leveraging AI across their enterprises. I wanted to know how wealth management influencers were interpreting the impact of AI across the industry, so […]
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep 25: How Software is Eating Banking with Lex Sokolin, ConsenSys
“Banking, as it is today, is moving sideways from manufacturing to being just a feature.” — Lex Sokolin, ConsenSys Lex Sokolin is a futurist and entrepreneur working on the next generation of financial services. He is the Global Fintech Co-Head at ConsenSys, a blockchain technology company building the infrastructure, applications, and practices that enable a […]
18 Enlightening Fintech Demos from In|Vest 2019
“A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.” — Ben Shneiderman, American Scientist If an interface is worth 1,000 pictures, then the eighteen product demos we were treated to at the InVest 2019 Conference, which was held at the New York Marriot Marquis, were worth 18,000 pictures, which would […]
#ItzOnWealthTech Ep 21: Zen and the Art of Artificial Intelligence
“It has nothing to do with how smart you are, what school you went to, or how many PhDs you have in your innovation lab. If your team can’t emotionally deal with the prospect of failing and having to wear egg on your face for five minutes, it’s going to be difficult.” — Davyde Wachell, […]
A Consultant’s View on the Leading Vendors in AI for Wealth Management
Artificial Intelligence products and platforms deployed at the enterprise level is still a relatively new experience. Even though wealth management firms are slowly embracing machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP) and other models to dig deeper into their customer data and make business decisions, we are only scratching the surface of the benefits of […]
6 Ways AI Can Increase Consumer Confidence in Digital Banking
Financial services firms are dealing with a crisis of consumer confidence that threatens to drive customers into the arms of non-bank providers. This is according to Natalie Cartwright, co-Founder and COO of artificial intelligence technology vendor Finn AI. As part of her presentation at American Banker’s Digital Banking Conference 2018, Cartwright noted that 57% of North Americans are […]
Will AI be an Advisor’s Best Friend or Worst Nightmare?
Over the next decade, artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies will have a tremendous impact on the human labor market. So much so that AI could render nearly half of all US occupations obsolete. In fact, we can expect 65% of today’s college graduates to one day be working in jobs that do not […]
