Justin is the Executive Vice President of Global Executive Securities Services at Northern Trust Asset Servicing. He leads Northern Trust’s Digital Assets and Financial Markets group, a single market facing team unifying digital and traditional market functions and providing access to market-leading expertise, industry insights and continued innovations. Prior to taking on this expanded role, Justin was most recently Global Head of Market Advocacy and Innovation Research. He has also worked for organisations in the enterprise enablement, investment banking, asset management, custodial, consultancy and vendor space.
While the integration of AI into blockchain technology holds promise, it also presents challenges.
I haven’t seen any killer use cases hit the market where AI has been built to fully leverage blockchain. We are seeing the usual AI applications around pattern analysis and cyber security. But these are not specifically blockchain-enabled, even if they operate using data held on blockchains.