A ‘perfect storm’ of Web 3.0 peer-to-peer infrastructure, decentralised finance (DeFi), cryptocurrencies, asset tokenization and smart contracts is set to radically transform the financial services industry. The challenge is to understand this emerging tokenization and disintermediation of...

Venture capital (VC) tokenization is one of many ‘tokenization’ opportunities being pursued in decentralized finance. VC tokenization will increase liquidity, simplify participation through asset tokens, and enhance user engagement through utility, reward, and governance tokens. The...

Derivative traders are usually required to scan through hundreds, even thousands of possible trades on a daily basis. Up to now, not a single solution is available to aid in their job. Hence, this work aims to develop a trading recommendation system, and apply this system to the so-called...

Business reliance on algorithms are becoming ubiquitous, and companies are increasingly concerned about their algorithms causing major financial or reputational damage. High-profile cases include VW’s Dieselgate scandal with fines worth of $34.69B, Knight Capital’s bankruptcy (~$450M) by a...

This paper reviews Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and associated algorithms in future Capital Markets. New AI algorithms are constantly emerging, with each ‘strain' mimicking a new form of human learning, reasoning, knowledge, and decision-making. The current main...

Fragmentation of production across national boundaries results in global supply chains. To govern effectively in this type of economy requires a combination of public data with private initiatives (from business, banks and NGOs). But basically, there are three major challenges to that: a) data...

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems is one of the main themes in driving change in the financial industry. It is important to distinguish the different types of interaction between machine and human intelligence since AI is often used as an umbrella term to describe multiple...

Increasingly tech students and young professionals are pursuing ‘guerrilla’ commercialization of their research projects in universities, government labs and companies. Inspired by role models such as Bill Gates, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman etc. This Venture...

Effective financial regulation is clearly crucial to innovation and the future success of the financial services industry and, in specific, FinTech. There are also unprecedented opportunities for reforming regulation and also creating new businesses in the process. Examples include: using “big...