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Diederick Van Thiel

Visionary Board Member | CEO | NED
AdviceRobo | IKANO Bank | Ikano Insight
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The infrastructure of trust: building AI foundations for inclusive, explainable finance

The time is now to focus on AI infrastructure, which will enable companies to scale AI and build a future where humans and multiple AI agents successfully work together. In this blog I share some insights on how we at AdviceRobo do this so you can learn from it and build your own infrastructure of trust with AI. As the world accelerates toward an ...

23 June 2025 /ai /inclusion Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

Human-Centered AI in Telecommunication

The power of Social Network Analysis in churn prediction and beyond Earlier this year, I earned my PhD in human-centered AI transformation in banking. Since then, I’ve been invited to give keynotes and run in-company training programs, helping business leaders from many industries understand the impact of this AI revolution on their companies—and ...

21 March 2025 /ai /predictions Artificial Intelligence

Diederick Van Thiel

Hot : Human Centered AI in Small Business Credit

Empowering entrepreneurs in bridging their finance gap Exciting news! My latest research has been given the green light for publication in the prestigious European Journal of Finance. Teaming up with esteemed professors Karen Elliott, John Goedee, and Roger Leenders, our paper delves into a novel inclusive credit scoring approach aimed at bridging...

17 April 2024 /retail /inclusion Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

AI Leadership Learnings from the World Economic Forum 2024

In a blogpost from May 2023, I explored how AI is reshaping the dynamic world of finance. Like many others I also concluded that the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) already has had a profound impact, serving as a game-changer. We know that by now! But what to do if you are a CEO or business leader in this transforming world of (gen)AI?...

29 January 2024 /retail /sustainable Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

Unlocking Underwriting Potential: The Power of Data-Driven Transformation

In the midst of economic uncertainties and emerging challenges, traditional insurance and banking business models face threats that demand adaptation as a necessity rather than a choice. While banks have made some progress in their transformations, they still lack the leadership required to unlock new business and operating models that can restore...

22 September 2023 /retail /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

Unlocking Embedded Finance: Dynamic Data and AI Leading the Way

Embedded Finance: Redefining Financial Services Small businesses starting today may never interact with a conventional bank. By logging into their e-commerce or accounting platform, they can open a deposit account, order a debit card, and meet most of their financing needs. The operators of these platforms are not usually banks. Rather, they are s...

31 May 2023 /retail /inclusion Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

Harnessing The Power of AI: Navigating Macro-Economic Instability

INSPIRATION FROM RESPONSIBLE AI-USE CASES IN FINANCIAL SERVICES AND RETAIL Pause or accelerate AI-development? Some of the biggest names in tech are calling for artificial intelligence labs to stop the training of the most powerful AI systems for at least six months, citing “profound risks to society and humanity.” Elon Musk was among the dozens of...

10 May 2023 /retail /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

Diederick Van Thiel

War of the Titans: Tech Banks Lock Horns in the Battle for Customers through Open Banking

Unlocking the Future of Finance: The Bold New World of Open Finance We are moving towards an open finance world in which customers decide who they share their data with. Open finance refers to a transformative movement in the financial industry that enables secure and regulated access to financial data and services through open APIs, fostering inn...

19 April 2023 /retail /predictions Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Diederick Van Thiel

Urgently Resetting Banks' Growth Strategy in the Current Climate

The current banking climate is facing a lot of changes and challenges that banks need to address urgently. Credit Suisse was recently acquired by UBS for $2 billion, while Silicon Valley Bank was split over First Citizens and HSBC. Additionally, the FED and ECB have raised interest rates, and the global workforce is shifting towards being mostly m...

05 April 2023 /wealth /retail Banking Strategy, Digital and Transformation

Diederick Van Thiel

REVOLUTIONIZING VENTURE CAPITAL How AI based structured investment can improve VC ROI by 45%

Vision on the future of venture capital The pandemic has exposed value chain fragility and stress-tested all sectors and industries. Innovation has become the new arms race. According to Mc Kinsey Global Research of Executives companies have accelerated their digitization by three or four years and the share of digitally enabled products in their ...

24 May 2022 /startups /predictions Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services

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