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SUMMARY:FinTech Scotland Festival 
DESCRIPTION:Fintech Scotland Festival will take place between 25 September 2024 and 04 October 2024 across Scotland. \n\n\n\nThe festival will contain conferences\, meet-ups\, morning breakfast sessions\, evening networking events and much more. \n\n\n\nCheck the Fintech Scotland Festival website for dates and venues.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/fintech-scotland-festival/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Financial Services & FinTech,Talk/Discussion,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Edinburgh Reforms: regulatory frameworks for driving growth and competitiveness
DESCRIPTION:In this joint event held with the Edinburgh Centre for Financial Innovations and the Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Sheldon Mills\, Executive Director\, Consumers and Competition at the Financial Conduct Authority will speak on the regulatory issues emanating from the implementation of the UK government’s vision for an internationally competitive and innovative financial services sector in the UK. \n\n\n\nOn a visit to Edinburgh in December 2022\, the Chancellor of the Exchequer\, Jeremy Hunt\, unveiled the ‘Edinburgh Reforms’\, a package of policy measures conceived to advance the UK government’s vision for a sustainable\, open\, technologically advanced\, and globally competitive financial services sector. In addition to an ambitious set of proposals to reform the UK system of financial services and markets regulatory architecture\, they also include plans for a repeal and replacement of legacy EU financial services legislation\, thus potentially leading to further divergence from EU law. Therefore\, when fully implemented\, the reforms will encapsulate the most significant change to financial services and markets regulation in the UK since the introduction of the Financial Services and Markets Act in 2000. \n\n\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority plays a central role in the delivery of the Edinburgh Reforms\, a point underscored by the issuance of new remit letters to it and the Prudential Regulation Authority by Mr Hunt one day ahead of the unveiling of the reforms; the letter to the FCA sets out “clear\, (and) targeted recommendations”on how the Financial Conduct Authority may support the government’s objectives on economic growth and international competitiveness of the UK. \n\n\n\nIn this public lecture\, Sheldon Mills\, Executive Director\, Consumers and Competition at the Financial Conduct Authority will address these issues in the context of the Financial Conduct Authority’s primary objectives of protecting consumers from bad conduct\, protecting the integrity of the UK financial system\, and promoting effective competition in the interests of consumers. \n\n\n\nThe event will be chaired by Professor Gbenga Ibikunle\, Chair of Finance and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Financial Innovations.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/edinburgh-reforms-regulatory-frameworks-for-driving-growth-and-competitiveness/
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Business School\, The University of Edinburgh\, 29 Buccleuch Place\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Financial Services & FinTech,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Human-Centric Finance
DESCRIPTION:Fintech companies are constantly innovating and developing new products and services. However\, while many of the technological solutions are user-centred\, they are not necessarily human-centred. They typically focus on process\, user experience and scalability\, but often neglect the deeper needs\, emotions\, instincts\, and social factors that impact people’s financial wellbeing. This event challenges fintech leaders to think about their products at a deeper level\, through a human-centred lens. Please join us for a very insightful programme. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\nDr Thomas Mathar\, AegonThomas is an internationally experienced customer and behaviour researcher. He currently leads initiatives at Aegon’s Centre for Behavioural Research\, with a focus on identifying tools\, techniques\, rules-of-thumb and other interventions that help people make better long-term decisions. Thomas’s book\, “Financial Wellbeing”\, has recently been published\, bringing to the German-speaking world the Money and Mindset concept that he helped to develop at Aegon UK more than 3 years ago. \n\n\n\nProfessor Tina Harrison\, University of EdinburghTina is Professor of Financial Services Marketing and Consumption. Her research interests are in the areas of financial wellbeing\, consumer use and understanding of financial services\, and the use of technology in enabling and empowering financial capability and financial wellbeing. Tina’s recent projects have focused on young people’s financial capability and school-based financial education in collaboration with Young Enterprise and the Money and Pensions Service and. She recently collaborated with Sopra Steria to develop a tool to support financially vulnerable individuals.Tina and Thomas are leading a two-year Innovate UK KTP funded project\, a partnership between the University of Edinburgh and Aegon UK\, to develop a tool to enable longer term planning and saving.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/human-centric-finance/
LOCATION:Inspace\, 1 Crichton Street\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9LE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Financial Services & FinTech,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Economics of Financial Technology Conference
DESCRIPTION:https://www.eftconference.business-school.ed.ac.uk/
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/economics-of-financial-technology-conference/
CATEGORIES:Financial Services & FinTech
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SUMMARY:AI in Banking: The Case for Customers
DESCRIPTION:Pre-event registration and coffees will be available from 2pm\, with the event starting at 2:30pm. \n\n\n\nPredictive analytics\, virtual assistants\, and machine learning are already commonly used by banks and financial services providers. The application of AI in banking is across the board\, with uses in the front office (voice assistants and biometrics)\, middle office (anti-fraud risk monitoring and complex legal and compliance workflows)\, and back office (credit underwriting with smart contracts infrastructure) (Fares\, O.H. et al. 2022). As AI is more increasingly used to hyper-personalise user journey\, and more intelligent systems transform the way financial services providers interact with customers\, how does AI impact the customers and what are the benefits and the risks? \n\n\n\nJoin our panel discussion with experts in banking and fintech who will examine these questions: \n\n\n\n\nHow is AI transforming banking/financial services now and what is its potential in the future? \n\n\n\nHow does AI impact customer journey in the banking sector\, from customer acquisition to service delivery?\n\n\n\nWhat is the impact of AI on customers and how it can be used to improve customer experience? \n\n\n\nHow do fintech and banks specifically use AI to help vulnerable customers?\n\n\n\nWhat is the potential for bias vs efficiency when using AI to deal with customers?\n\n\n\n\nWho is taking part in this event? \n\n\n\n\nRachel Curtis – Inicio.AI\n\n\n\nManuel Peleteiro – Inbest\n\n\n\nAndreas Schaefer – Tesco Bank\n\n\n\nEuan Wielewski – Natwest\n\n\n\nMikael Paris– Fintech Scotland\n\n\n\nGbenga Ibikunle – University of Edinburgh\n\n\n\n\nThe event will be followed by networking and drinks from 4pm-5pm. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Curtis \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRachel Curtis has spent nearly 30 years in the Financial Services arena including at Santander and then as Chief Customer Officer for a challenger bank. She still sits as a Non-Executive Director for a regional Building Society\, holding the new role of Consumer Duty Board Champion. In 2021 Rachel made the switch to lead a Fintech start-up that has a B2B software platform that uses conversational AI to help organisations better help their customers complete detailed affordability assessments. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nManuel Peleteiro\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nManuel Peleteiro is an experienced product owner of data-intensive data processes and products. Manuel is the founder of Inbest\, a data analytics platform for welfare advice. At Inbest\, he is in charge of business development and product management. Before this role\, Manuel was a product owner in Moody’s Analytics\, a quant consultant at Accenture\, and an investment banking analyst at Caixabank. Manuel has a BSc (Hons) Economics and Finance\, MSc Financial Mathematics and is a CFA charterholder. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndreas Schaefer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndreas Schaefer currently works as a data science manager at Tesco Bank\, specialising in applying machine learning to credit risk projects and strategy. He is experienced in using Data Science to manage and analyse risk over the complete customer life cycle having worked in a variety of risk related roles in the UK over the last 18 years. Andreas’ roles comprised fraud strategy\, customer acquisition\, collections and recoveries as well as stress testing and capital models. He is particularly interested in using advanced data mining and machine learning to create insight over and above traditional methods. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEuan Wielewski\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEuan Wielewski is Machine Learning Lead at NatWest\, where he and his team develop AI solutions across a variety of use cases in the bank. Before joining NatWest\, Euan was the founder and CEO of Anomalous\, an AI-first start up developing deep learning-based inspection software for the aerospace industry. He was an academic at the University of Glasgow\, where he taught Python and led a research group working at the interface of materials science and numerical simulation. He has a PhD in engineering science from the University of Oxford and a MEng in mechanical engineering from the University of Glasgow. Euan loves to read sci-fi and is a massive coffee nerd. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMikael Paris\n\n\n\n\nMarketing Director at FinTech Scotland\, Mickael has worked for both start-ups and FTSE100 companies including Maxymiser\, Skyscanner and more recently Standard Life where he was headed up the digital function. \n\n\n\nIn January 2018 Mickael and Stephen Ingledew launched FinTech Scotland to help make Scotland one of the leading fintech hubs in the world. \n\n\n\nMickael speaks at various conferences focussing on fintech\, customer led and data driven marketing. In 2015 he was featured in the BIMA100 list of marketing influencers as well as the Marketing Magazine NextGen Power 100 and last year he was awarded the title of Fintech Evangelist of the Year at the Digit Fintech Summit Awards. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMikael Paris\n\n\n\n\nMarketing Director at FinTech Scotland\, Mickael has worked for both start-ups and FTSE100 companies including Maxymiser\, Skyscanner and more recently Standard Life where he was headed up the digital function. \n\n\n\nIn January 2018 Mickael and Stephen Ingledew launched FinTech Scotland to help make Scotland one of the leading fintech hubs in the world. \n\n\n\nMickael speaks at various conferences focussing on fintech\, customer led and data driven marketing. In 2015 he was featured in the BIMA100 list of marketing influencers as well as the Marketing Magazine NextGen Power 100 and last year he was awarded the title of Fintech Evangelist of the Year at the Digit Fintech Summit Awards. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair\n\n\n\n\n\nGbenga Ibikunle\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGbenga Ibikunle is a Professor and Chair of Finance at the University of Edinburgh\, and as the Director for Industry\, Economy and Society at the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Institute\, he leads on strategic FinTech and Financial Services initiatives and convenes the FinTech and Financial Services Research Cluster at the University. He was the Founding Director of both the University’s PhD in Financial Technology programme and its taught master’s degree programme\, the MSc Finance\, Technology and Policy (FTP). Gbenga is also the Deputy Scientific Director at the Fondazione European Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre in Pescara\, Italy\, a Fellow at the RoZetta Institute (formerly Capital Markets CRC) in Sydney\, Australia\, and a Member of the of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Future of Resilient Financial Systems (2023-2024 term). Gbenga’s current research sits at the intersection of the economics of financial markets and data science with applications to practice and policy. His commissioned research reports have been published by various bodies\, such as the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority and the UK Houses of Parliament’s All Party Parliamentary Corporate Governance Group. His work has also been published in leading international academic journals\, such as Journal of Financial Markets\, Journal of Banking & Finance\, Journal of Marketing and Expert Systems with Applications\, and featured in the news media\, such as The New York Times\, The Economist\, Financial Times\, Forbes and Bloomberg Markets. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImportant notice: This event will be photographed/recorded\, and images may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed\, please let us know at the event.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ai-in-banking-the-case-for-customers/
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Business School\, The University of Edinburgh\, 29 Buccleuch Place\, Edinburgh\, Edinburgh\, EH8 9JS\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Financial Services & FinTech,Love Machine: Spring 2023
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