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...