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Freddie McMahon

Chatbot Natural Language Processing Unabated Hype

A lot of chatbot projects in regulated sectors, especially financial services, have reached the realisation that Natural Language Processing (NLP) has severe limitations compared to the unabated hype....

15 Jun 2018
Futuristic Banking
Freddie McMahon

Frugal Engineering to digitalise Standard Operating Procedures

Frugal Engineering is the science of breaking up complex engineering processes to reduce the complexity and cost of producing products, without compromising quality. One example of Frugal Engineering ...

08 Jun 2018
Operational Risk Management
Freddie McMahon

GDPR is becoming a bigger problem for USA firms

There is a very interesting issue related to GDPR that has emerged from the USA. Very simply, USA firms that adhere to GDPR, but do not apply at least the same level of consent to its domestic custome...

18 May 2018
Banking Regulations
Freddie McMahon

Is Machine versus Human a suitable sense-making framework for AI?

AI (artificial intelligence) including derivatives such as RPA (robotic process automation) have become increasingly popular, at least within conversations by the growing and growing ‘in crowd’. AI is...

11 May 2018
Trends in Financial Services
Freddie McMahon

The convergence of Legacy Systems and FinTech using chatbots

Legacy Systems remain problematic. Legacy Systems constrain change enablement. FinTech accelerates change. Legacy Systems are costly and slow to change. FinTech is inexpensive and quick to change. The...

04 May 2018
Business Knowledge for IT
Freddie McMahon

Chatbots provide hope for easy to understand consent, post GDPR!

We are all being inundated with requests for consent to continue using services as the GDPR deadline rapidly comes closer and closer. Many of us are not finding the consent experience very good. The...

27 Apr 2018
Data Protection Act Issues
Freddie McMahon

Chatbots provide the means to go beyond the constraints of legacy systems, but who will lead change?

After so much innovation and disruptive technologies, the issues surrounding legacy systems still prevail at scale. For example, Global Banks are spending around US$220bn a year on IT expenses, with...

20 Apr 2018
Fintech innovation and startups
Freddie McMahon

Chatbots are growing and growing as a new form of intangibles

Chatbots are gaining more and more momentum throughout the public and private sectors, worldwide. Now is the time to consider chatbots from a wider perspective. Chatbots are emerging as a new cl...

13 Apr 2018
Digital Banking Trends
Freddie McMahon

Chatbots for Recruitment and Human Resources

There is a growing expectation that chatbots can be used for recruitment. The obvious low hanging fruit is for a chatbot to: Answer questions about the job on offer Qualify a prospect through a set o...

06 Apr 2018
Finance 2.0
Freddie McMahon

Chatbots a new way of thinking. Are lawyers complicit in undermining GDPR?

Since the beginning of online services, lawyers have been the major influence upon the customer consent process. Their preferred instrument is to produce dense content, such as terms and conditions, c...

30 Mar 2018
Fintech innovation and startups
Freddie McMahon

Economies of Compliancy, an opportunity for leadership and chatbots

The Economies of Compliancy is an emergent economics term that describes a competitive advantage of sharing practical regulatory knowledge and practices across entities. By means of a utility-based cl...

23 Mar 2018
Financial Services Regulation
Freddie McMahon

Chatbots gaining momentum in mainstream banking

In March 2018, Citicorp launched a Facebook Messenger chatbot for its consumer banking clients in Singapore. They also plan to launch these chatbot-based services in Hong Kong and Australia later in 2...

16 Mar 2018
Fintech

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