FinTech - Machine Learning and Recommenders

I was invited as Keynote speaker in GCC Blockchain event in Dubai on 22 and 23 November 2017. I advocated for my area on AI and its subfield for FinTech. Also gave me lot of insight on how Blockchain can equally disrupt FinTech of rather doing it along with AI. In line with a Dubai goal towards making it the first Blockchain-powered government in the world by 2020, various service areas in Public and private organizations can benefit from Blockchain technologies. Blockchain and distributed ledger technology have potential to make ledgers more transparent, trustworthy and efficient which can revolutionize various business sectors.

How to recommend how much to spend, on what to spend, how to give best augmented and succinct experience to customers. Shopping, of course, is not the only industry to leverage recent advances in machine learning. The list of companies and industries is growing by the day in addition to the various applications of machine learning. Common applications of machine learning in today’s technology include voice recognition, fraud detection, email spam filtering, text processing, search recommendations, video analysis, etc.

How FinTech intelligence will become better with machine learning. Artificial Intelligence is a field that includes everything that is associated with the data (cleansing, preparation, analysis and many more), Learning processes to describe, diagnose, predict and prescribe with use of AI subfields like Machine Learning, Deep earning and Neural networks. Machine learning is a field of Artificial Intelligence, which is allowed to software applications for making accurate results.

Role Machine Learning is playing in Fintech (Not limited to though)

1. Bring behavioral biometrics to boost security in FinTech
2. Deductive, Reasoning, Problem Solving with ML for FinTech
3. Help and ease for bill payments in automated manner
4. Big data helps to make strategy for future and understand user behaviors.
5. Secure Electronic Transaction enables interoperability between applications across diverse platforms and operating systems.

These terms are used to from BI Intelligence, To illustrate the various applications of AI in eCommerce and use case studies to show how this technology has benefited merchants/ecommerce service providers. Different consumers have varying, and often very specific, requirements for product, needs, expect performance, cost of consumption, silicon wafer thin kind of cost for best thing in mind and other parameters. In addition, these current technologies are being improved daily, with these improvements being fueled by greater data analytics, reduction in the cost of computation, and advancements in the state of the art of machine learning research.

Bot is not a robot or robotics. Bot is just a simple service; people use these services to interact for conversation and messaging. Bot is not necessary an AI, not Machine Learning or even deep learning but surely AI, ML and DL can make Bot much better. Client – server to Web to mobile apps and now Bots are coming on the way. Data visualization & virtualization is about keeping data at the top of the priority list. Business success should be AI goal. AI should be treated as partner and friend in defining FinTech goals and opportunities. Data Science understands the signifies data for better business. Like usage of Big Data for small credit business is incredible.

Computer programmes alter “thinking” or output once exposed to new data for same information. In order for machine learning to take place, algorithms are needed. Algorithms are put into the computer and give it rules to follow when dissecting data. In FinTech domain apps with AI at top layer ares coming out almost every day. Company developing a financial apps. Some of these apps goes a step beyond the automatic investing functions (Investment apps) of robo-advisors, which absorb huge amounts of financial analysis to buy and sell securities automatically etc. These kind of apps has the ability to takes the spare change from any purchase you make – if you allow it – and invests it automatically.

We hear the term “machine learning” a lot these days (usually in the context of predictive analysis and artificial intelligence), but machine learning has actually been a field of its own for several decades. Only recently have we been able to really take advantage of machine learning on a broad scale thanks to modern advancements in computing power. But how does machine learning actually work? The answer is simple: algorithms. For example, a decision tree can be used in credit card fraud detection.

We would find the attribute that best predicts the risk of fraud is the purchase amount (for example that someone with the credit card has made a very large purchase). This could be the first split (or branching off) – those cards that have unusually high purchases and those that do not. Then we use the second best attribute (for example, that the credit card is often used) to create the next split. We can then continue on until we have enough attributes to satisfy our needs.

Machine learning algorithms can be used for other purposes, we are going to focus on prediction in this guide. “Machine learning is used in a lot of technology we use today. Machine learning helps us get from place to place, gives us suggestions, translates stuff, even understands what you say to it. How does it work? With traditional programming, people hand code the solution to a problem, step by step. SME in this area are not only able to uncover patterns in the things they study, but to use this information to predict the future with accuracy as well.

With machine learning, computers learn the solution by finding patterns in data, so it’s easy to think there’s no human bias in that.” “Just because something is based on data doesn’t automatically make it neutral. Even with good intentions, it’s impossible to separate ourselves from our own human biases, so our human biases become part of the technology we create in many different ways.” A financial analyst may try to predict the ups and downs of a stock based on things like market capitalization or cash flow. 

Perhaps even more interesting than the above phenomena is that of predicting the behavior of human beings. Attempts to predict how people will behave have existed since the origins of humankind. Early humans had to trust their instincts. Today, marketers, politicians, trial lawyers and more make their living on predicting human behavior. Predicting human behavior, in all of its forms, is big business.”

Bringing Artificial intelligence to make FinTech better, demystified and simple. How FinTech intelligence will become better with machine learning. Neural networks in biology are interconnected neurons that exchange messages with each other. This idea has now been adapted to the world of machine learning and is called artificial neural networks (ANN). The concept of deep learning, which is a word that pops up often, is just several layers of artificial neural networks put one after the other. ANNs are a family of models that are taught to adopt cognitive skills to function like the human brain.

Mobile Money, Mobile Payments or MFS and Payment intelligence (PI) System – Can open lot of opportunities to young entrepreneurs and boost economy of the nation.  How technology will determine human interaction, knowledge and subconscious conditions. Global mobile money outlook anyways disrupting traditional monetary services. Kindly advise if any detailed research report of white paper is needed at a cost  kindly connect with me. 

The change in services can only be brought on by changes in technologies that consumers are adopting, this includes topics like NFC, QR codes and even facial recognition. No other algorithms can handle extremely complex tasks, such as image recognition, as well as neural networks can. However, just like the human brain, it takes a very long time to train the model, and it requires a lot of power. Machine learning algorithms, which come in three groups: linear models, tree-based models, and neural networks needs too much power for processing at speed. If any one can just think about how much we eat to keep our brains working i.e giving power to self.

Conclusion – Artificial intelligence is set to transform the financial services industry. How AI will be transforming the future of finTech to elaborate items from the above list in African markets and opportunities are even more dramatic – In just the past five years. Modern mobile payment infrastructure availability – Africa has payment instruments such as mobile wallets for merchant payments, bill payments, prepaid airtime top-up etc. Smart machines producing smart payments with inbuilt payment intelligence. How to recommend how much to spend and what Augmented experience give very succinct response to this with artificial intelligence combination with other data intelligence.