Financial Evolution: Al, Machine Learning & Sentiment Analysis 2021 | UNICOM Seminars | 23 June 2021 | Online

Innovations in Finance and harnessing of Technology have resulted in making the term Fintech a portmanteau word. In the evolution of the BFSI sector Fintech has assumed a pivotal role; but it has also disrupted traditional order. The rise of AI and Machine learning has impacted many aspects of investment models and technologies at the same time it has disrupted some other.

Applications of Alternative Data in Fintech are growing at a great pace; the question is how to discover new sources of alpha and create strategies and signals. Here the challenge is to discover hidden coupling of multiple data sources. Text analysis, Natural Language Processing and analysis of News, Micro blogs, investor sentiment are well established. Bringing all these advances together new applications in trading, fund management and risk control have continued to emerge.

Today Fintech has influenced all aspects of the finance industry – banking and capital markets, asset and wealth management, insurance, and funds transfer and payments.

There are three main themes for this Two-Day Online Event

Theme 1: Disruptive Progress in AI and ML
Progress in (i) News Analysis, (ii) Micro Blog Analysis (Filtered Twitter feed for finance), (iii) Online searches (iv) Data Analytics, Alternative Data and AI and Quant models

DISRUPTIONS: Predicting the Market directions and ‘Timing the Market’

Other Topics:
• New directions of discovering Alpha in Low frequency Systematic Trading
• Opportunities and challenges of machine learning in quantitative wealth and investment management

Theme 2: Progress in Derivative Products
• Demystifying XVA (FVA DVA CVA) for regulatory compliance
• Machine Learning and Derivatives Artificial Neural Networks and Derivatives Pricing
• Exploiting Index Futures and VIX to construct Trade Portfolios

Theme 3: Impact of SRI and ESG in the Investment Industry
• The Rise and Rise of ESG in the domain of Finance
• Synthetic data generation with restricted Boltzmann machines

2021 Speakers

Dr. Ernie Chan
Founder, Predictnow.ai Inc

Pierce Crosby
General Manager, Tradingview

Mario Dell’era
Quantiative Market Risk Sr. Group Manager, Citi

Dan Dibartolomeo
President And Founder, Northfield Information Services

Raul Glavan
Consultant Artificial Intelligence & Asset Management | Trader | Speaker | Ubi Enthusiast

Blair Hull
Founder And Chairman, Hull Tactical

David Jessop
Head Of Investment Risk, Columbia Threadneedle Investments Emea APAC

Dan Joldzic
CEO And Quantitative Researcher, Alexandria Technology

Gautam Mitra
CEO, Optirisk / Unicom

Andrea Nardon
Chief Quant Officer, Fund Manager, Black Alpha Capital

Miquel Noguer I Alonso
Head Of Development, Global AI

Thomas Oesch
Senior Portfolio Manager, UBS

Simon Wicks
Managing Director, Multi-asset Quantitative Solutions At Charles Schwab

2021 Partners

MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Quant Insti
• Private Banking
• ODBMS.org
• Fintech Futures
• Fintech Finance
• Financial IT
• Eurekahedge
• EMIA
• Datafloo
• C2B
• Alternative Data.org
• Alpha Journal
• 7 Data