Technology is completely changing the face of financial services, driving disruption, displacement and disintermediation within the sector. This has lowered the barriers to entry, opened the door to new market entrants and created fertile ground for innovation and growth.
These market disruptions have also forged new alliances between start-ups and incumbents, blurring the lines of distinction between finance and technology and creating a wave of cross-sector collaboration.
Fintech 2018 will explore technological innovation across the financial services sector, from developments in established tier-1 firms to the disruptive innovators within the start-up community that are reshaping the FS market.
Core conference topics will include:
• Landscape: Trends, Culture, Trust, Transparency, Geo-political Climate
• Regulation: GDPR, MiFID II, PSD2, Open Banking, APIs
• Customer Strategy: Engagement, UX, Data Insight, Marketing & ML
• Emerging Tech: Blockchain, Analytics, AI, Payments, Automation
• National Strategy: Skills, Funding, Collaboration, Cyber Security
• Infrastructure: IT, Digital, Cloud, Mobile, XaaS
34. “RPA and AI will become
net job promoters. They will
create more jobs than they
eliminate.” Helen Poitevin,
Gartner
35. “By 2021, there will
be as many
attended robots in
customer service as
there are people;
about 3 million.”
Sarah Burnett,
Everest
36. “The mood
music has
changed. Our
people are
happier and we
now measure
the service in
terms of
compliments
rather than
complaints.”
Karl Nolan,
Generali Link
37. “We were able
to move from
concept to
deployment in
12 weeks and
saved £6m on
the pilot alone.”
Shaun
Williamson,
DWP
45. McKinsey Global Institute’s ”
A Future That Works: Automation,
Employment and Productivity ”report
“about 60 per cent of all occupations have at
least 30 per cent of constituent activities that
could be automated”. It added: “More
occupations will change than will be
automated away.”
46. Beware………
• Being Tactical
• It is transformational
• Thinking it’s an IT project
• Simply not
• Forgetting about IT
• Nightmare !
• Underestimating Stakeholders
and Skills needed
• Think of hiring 100 persons
• Select the correct Processes
• Get advice !
• Trying to Automate 100%
• 50% might be great – think human in the loop
• Thinking only FTE savings
• Accuracy
• Speed
• Customer Experience
• Job Satisfaction
47. Understand the true value
Partnerup to make it happen
Plan around the multiple benefits
Beware of thinking too small
61. Copyright ThinkTank Maths Ltd 2017
Combatting complexity with AI, data science and self-healing systems
Angela Mathis
Chief Executive,
ThinkTank Maths Limited (Edinburgh)
5th Annual Financial Technology Conference
Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh
19th September 2018
62. Copyright ThinkTank Maths Ltd 2017
Revolution v. Evolution
“Large swathes’ of Britain's workforce face the threat of unemployment as robots
take over human jobs, the Bank of England has warned.
Mr Haldane warned that a Fourth Industrial Revolution is on the way, driven by
artificial intelligence [and ] would be on a “much greater scale” than the
previous three, and said the UK will need a skills revolution to avoid
unemployment on a mass scale.
Mr Haldane added: “That hollowing out is going to be potentially on a much
greater scale in the future, when we have machines both thinking and doing –
replacing both the cognitive and the technical skills of humans.”
Sources: The Telegraph and Independent, 20th August 2018
63. Copyright ThinkTank Maths Ltd 2017
In a world of increasing complexity… legacy systems + legacy thinking = legacy outcomes
• The shift towards a new era of data science and self-healing, self-modifying systems
• Challenges (reality) are not linear- they are multi-dimensional and inherently chaotic
• AI and data science is critical to tackling these complex challenges effectively
• Vision and potential is being stifled by a crippling fear of the unknown
• AI is not the scary leap of faith that’s being proclaimed with increasing hysteria
• AI is progressive evolution, an opportunity to be better at comprehending the complex
64. Copyright ThinkTank Maths Ltd 2017
Defining Machine Learning
“A computer program is said to learn from experience ‘E’, with
respect to some class of tasks ‘T’ and performance measure ‘P’ if its
performance at tasks in ‘T’ as measured by ‘P’ improves with
experience ‘E’ : Professor Tom Mitchell
Another definition is: “The extraction of learning from data”
Put simply…. if a computer program improves with experience then
we can say that it has learned.
65. Copyright ThinkTank Maths Ltd 2017
Which AI ? ….. ‘Augmented Intelligence’
Beyond conventional A.I. and Machine Learning
…..’the smart, scary black box’
AND
Why ‘human centric’ ….why create a parody of human cognition ?
…..imagine ‘beyond human-centric cognition’
We want and must have ‘EXPLAINABILITY’
67. Copyright ThinkTank Maths Ltd 2017
TTM’s Trusted Reasoning Architecture (TRA) is a novel mathematical (A.I.) augmented intelligence system with
human-in-the-loop - used in ‘command and control’ decision aids, intelligent cockpit,
urban search, drones, Mars Rover ... (UK Ministry of Defence, ESA)
TRA-based systems :
- beyond rule-based, beyond conventional A.I and Machine Learning
- learn (capture the world real-time and update their situational awareness),
- flag up subtle anomalies in static and real-time sensor data
Why ‘trusted’?
- they explain their reasoning to the human operator
‘Trusted’ Decision Support Systems
with Dynamic Situation Awareness and EXPLAINABILITY
68. Copyright ThinkTank Maths Ltd 2017
TTM’s ‘TRA’ - Mars Rover, ESA
⚫ Processing large amounts of real time data from multiple sources
⚫ Identifying and extracting important aspects of data
⚫ Unintuitive actions difficult for operators to accept or understand
⚫ Unexpected occurrences/events need to be dealt with….spot a Dinosaur footprint !
69. Copyright ThinkTank Maths Ltd 2017
The art-of-the-possible
- financial / banking system stability using ‘self-healing’ systems
- dynamic ‘smart morphing’ systems, against cyber crime and fraud detection
- failure prediction and root-cause analysis
70. Copyright ThinkTank Maths Ltd 2017
Systems Engineering – status quo – complexity and scale
• Engineering tasks are designed and organised using a priori intuition and
experience
• Ecosystems
• Financial Markets
• Organisational Structures
• Machines and Construction
• Scaling component level rules to system-wide behaviour difficult
• Designing to ensure or prevent emergent behaviour challenging
71. Copyright ThinkTank Maths Ltd 2017
Systems Engineering – Self-Correcting, self-healing Systems
multiple mathematical approaches:
• learn system dynamics in real-time data
• exploit emergent phenomena
• respond to unlikely but extreme events
• compute and implement optimal modification to system
72. Copyright ThinkTank Maths Ltd 2017
Systems Engineering – Different Languages/Representations
Different mathematical representations provide different insights
• Stochastic
• Non-linear dynamical systems
• Quantum mechanics and quantum field theory
• Discrete and continuous system spaces
73. Copyright ThinkTank Maths Ltd 2017
Thank you
Contact: Angela Mathis, CEO
a.mathis@thinktankmaths.com
ThinkTank Maths Limited
www.thinktankmaths.com
77. UK SME Lending
UK SME Lending
£200 Billion
UK SME Lending Market, 2018 UK P2P Lenders, 2018
P2P UK SME Lending
£3.5 Billion (2%)
LendingCrowd
£30 Million
82. Case Study: Pickering’s Gin
• £500,000 LendingCrowd loan in early 2017
• 1 Million Xmas Baubles Purchased
• 6 Full-time; 19 part-time jobs created
• 20,000 baubles filled with gin every day
• Loan repaid Xmas 2017
96. Store of
Value
Manage
Money
Product
Marketplace
User
The Old Days
Finance
Products
Now
Store of
Value
Manage
Money
Product
Marketplace
User
Commoditize
&
Modularize
Integrate &
Capture
Value
Open Banking
Store of
Value
Manage
Money
Product
Marketplace
User
Finance
Products
Finance
Products
97. Future Open Banking API
PSD2 / Lending APIs
View
Transactions
Initiate
Payments
Create New
Payee
Modify Future
Payments
View Future
Payments
Transfer
Funds
Lending Marketplace
AccountingCompliance
109. Making a better world for all through financial innovation, collaboration and inclusion
FinTech Summit 2018 Presentation
By Stephen Ingledew, Chief Executive
September 2018
114. FINTECH SCOTLAND
Scotland’s Growing Fintech Community
Making financial
payments easier
Improving financial
engagement
Protecting
customer
financial data
Scotland’s Fintech Enterprises Leading on Data Driven Innovation with Purpose
Enabling
customer
financial
management
115. FINTECH SCOTLAND
Visible Fintech Community
Funding to Fuel Innovation Big and Small Collaboration
Cross Sector Innovation
Global Centre of Excellence
Making a better world for all through financialinnovation,collaborationand inclusion
Fintech Skills & Inclusion
119. FINTECH SCOTLAND
Making a better world for all through financial innovation, collaboration, inclusion
120. Making a better world for all through financial innovation, collaboration and inclusion
FinTech Summit 2018 Presentation
By Stephen Ingledew, Chief Executive
September 2018
164. Innovate Finance is an independent membership association
that represents the UK’s global FinTech community. Founded in
2014 and supported by the City of London Corporation and
Broadgate, Innovate Finance is a not-for-profit that advances the
country’s leading position in the financial services sector by
supporting the next generation of technology-led financial
services innovators.
172
165. 173
More than 250 global members have joined the Innovate Finance
ecosystem to date. These companies range from seed start-ups to
global financial institutions and professional services firms. All benefit
from Innovate Finance’s leading position as a single point of access to
promote enabling policy and regulation, talent development, and
business opportunity and investment capital.
250+ MEMBERS
166. 4
Innovate Finance’s mission is to serve our members and represent the global FinTech community.
We believe at the core of our proposition is the ability to provide our members opportunities to connect, collaborate, share insights and receive access to
wider industry engagements.
We provide our members:
Policy and
Regulation
BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP
Promotions
and Media
Programmes
and Events
To deliver the following benefits:
Connections and Networking
Ensuring our members have regular opportunities to meet
with the Innovate Finance community and broader
ecosystem. Whether it be in curated events, annual
programmes or introductions to policy makers, press and
potential partners, we continue to create the right
environments for our members to connect.
Thought leadership and Insights
Providing our members access to the most relevant knowledge and
intelligence to help navigate the changing financial services
landscape. Through regular Member Peer Working Groups
(MPWG), ongoing consultations, podcasts and webinars and
collaborative industry reports, we ensure our members are always
informed.
Wider Industry Engagements
Involving our members in international initiatives, trade missions,
parliamentary groups and global events which aim to promote
and champion FinTech across borders, sectors and industries.
From the building of an Industry Sandbox to the Global FinTech
Hubs Federation we provide our members the single point of
access to some of the sector’s most innovative programmes.
167. 175
The Public Policy Case for FinTech
● Competition
● Competitiveness
● Consumer outcomes
168. 176
COMPETITION
Key to addressing the UK’s highly
concentrated banking and SME
finance market
Enshrined in FCA Innovate and the
drive to building a Regulatory
Sandbox
Support for competition also from
the FCA / PRA New Bank Start-up
Unit and the Bank of England’s
FinTech Accelerator.
169. 177
COMPETITIVENESS
Regulation. The Regulatory
Sandbox, and now Global
Sandbox, demonstrates leadership
by the UK.
RegTech 2.0. The rise of digital
financial infrastructure could help
drive innovation, improve the
identification of risk, and ease
friction.
HM Treasury ‘FinTech Bridges’
Initiative represents a driver for
meaningful FinTech connections
internationally.
170. 8
CONSUMER OUTCOMES
Open Banking. UK has taken a
lead, building on PSD2. The OBIE
set up to support implementation
from January 13th 2018.
P2P lending. Benefits both FinTech
businesses and their customers.
Alternative Finance is now a
significant vertical of financial
services.
Inclusion and Diversity. FinTech
has the capability to address issues
around inclusion & diversity in the
workforce – promoting positive
societal change.
171. 179
Where is FinTech Today?
● Global FinTech VC Investment
● UK FinTech VC Investment
173. 181
GLOBAL FINTECH VC INVESTMENT
5 YEAR TREND
2017 has seen 1,824 deals globally attracting $14.2BN of VC investment, a 18% decrease YoY
Source: PitchBook 19-Jan-18
-18%
174. 182
GLOBAL FINTECH VC INVESTMENT
TOP 10 COUNTRIES (2016 vs 2017)
The United States ranked top, both in Capital Invested ($7BN) and Deal Volume (765)
Top 10 counties by Capital Invested ($M) Top 10 counties by Deal Volume
Source: PitchBook 19-Jan-18
175. 183
UK FINTECH VC INVESTMENT
5 YEAR TREND
2017 has seen 224 deals attracting $1.8BN of VC investment, a 153% increase YoY
Source: PitchBook 19-Jan-18
153%
176. 184
What are the Challenges / Opportunities?
● Access to Talent and Skills
● Access to Patient Capital
● Supporting the development of Regional FinTech
177. 185
SUPPORTING TALENT AND
DEVELOPING SKILLS
FinTech reliant on continuing
access to international talent and
the development of UK skills.
Both are equally important to the
future vibrancy of the sector.
Identified by Migration Advisory
Committee (MAC) as a key priority
for the tech sector. Innovate
Finance working with MAC to
support a better understanding of
the negative impact of policy
change in this area.
Innovate Finance’s Supporting
FinTech Talent: Accessing a Global
Talent Pool report provides six
policy principles to think about
international and domestic talent &
skills.
178. 186
SUPPORTING TALENT AND
DEVELOPING SKILLS
FinTech reliant on continuing
access to international talent and
the development of UK skills.
Both are equally important to the
future vibrancy of the sector.
Identified by Migration Advisory
Committee (MAC) as a key priority
for the tech sector. Innovate
Finance working with MAC to
support a better understanding of
the negative impact of policy
change in this area.
Innovate Finance’s Supporting
FinTech Talent: Accessing a Global
Talent Pool report provides six
policy principles to think about
international and domestic talent &
skills.
179. 187
SUPPORTING TALENT AND
DEVELOPING SKILLS
FinTech reliant on continuing
access to international talent and
the development of UK skills.
Both are equally important to the
future vibrancy of the sector.
Identified by Migration Advisory
Committee (MAC) as a key priority
for the tech sector. Innovate
Finance working with MAC to
support a better understanding of
the negative impact of policy
change in this area.
Innovate Finance’s Supporting
FinTech Talent: Accessing a Global
Talent Pool report provides six
policy principles to think about
international and domestic talent &
skills.
180. 188
SUPPORTING TALENT AND
DEVELOPING SKILLS
FinTech reliant on continuing
access to international talent and
the development of UK skills.
Both are equally important to the
future vibrancy of the sector.
Identified by Migration Advisory
Committee (MAC) as a key priority
for the tech sector. Innovate
Finance working with MAC to
support a better understanding of
the negative impact of policy
change in this area.
Innovate Finance’s Supporting
FinTech Talent: Accessing a Global
Talent Pool report provides six
policy principles to think about
international and domestic talent &
skills.
181. 189
SUPPORTING TALENT AND
DEVELOPING SKILLS
FinTech reliant on continuing
access to international talent and
the development of UK skills.
Both are equally important to the
future vibrancy of the sector.
Identified by Migration Advisory
Committee (MAC) as a key priority
for the tech sector. Innovate
Finance working with MAC to
support a better understanding of
the negative impact of policy
change in this area.
Innovate Finance’s Supporting
FinTech Talent: Accessing a Global
Talent Pool report provides six
policy principles to think about
international and domestic talent &
skills.
182. 190
SUPPORTING TALENT AND
DEVELOPING SKILLS
FinTech reliant on continuing
access to international talent and
the development of UK skills.
Both are equally important to the
future vibrancy of the sector.
Identified by Migration Advisory
Committee (MAC) as a key priority
for the tech sector. Innovate
Finance working with MAC to
support a better understanding of
the negative impact of policy
change in this area.
Innovate Finance’s Supporting
FinTech Talent: Accessing a Global
Talent Pool report provides six
policy principles to think about
international and domestic talent &
skills.
183. 191
ACCESS TO PATIENT CAPITAL
Patient Capital supports small firms
as they grow into larger, scale-up
businesses. Access to such
capital is an issue across the UK.
Identified by Innovate Finance and
City of London Corporation as a key
to sustaining FinTech. Joint
submission to HMT’s Patient
Capital Review last Autumn.
One recommendation was the
creation of a British Patient Capital
Investment Fund, announced by
HMT recently to unlock £7.5bn in
public and private funds.
184. 192
THE CHALLENGE IS CLEAR.
SO WHY ARE OUR
PARTNERSHIPS WITH UK
HUBS SO IMPORTANT?
Building Innovate Finance’s regional
presence is key to supporting much of
our policy work in future. All these
challenges impact the WHOLE United
Kingdom, not just London and the the
south-east.
185. 193
Support from government to
connect FinTech hubs across the
UK. Innovate Finance has a UK-
wide membership ready to support
such initiatives.
Brexit has galvanised financial
institutions and key partners to
recognise the value of FinTech
across the UK. Our programme
dovetails with those of DIT, HMT,
FCA, and City of London
Corporation.
Innovate Finance ready to work with
key partners to demonstrate to
policy makers why FinTech matters
across the UK - we need to hear
your concerns!
SUPPORTING UK FINTECH
197. A history of wealth…
110
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
2011internationaldollars,trillions
1 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000
Figure 8-1: Gross World Product, 1-2015. Source: Our World in Data, Rose 2016c, based on data from the World Bank and from Angus Maddison Project 2014
208. Loral Quinn
Chief Executive & Co-founder
Eishel Quinn
Chief Product Officer & Co-founder
Grant MacLennan,
Neu Studios,
Lead Developer
Jo Watts,
Data Lead
Sarah Hale,
Non Exec Director
Jeremy Fraser,
Non Exec Director
Katy Air,
Marketing Lead
Ifeoma Ogbunugafor,
Marketing Intern
Our Team
212. February 2016 April 2016
Scottish Enterprise Start Global
programme
September 2016June 2016
Social Campaign
December 2016November 2016 March 2017
April 2017 June 2017 August 2017 September 2017
Launched beta on Monzo,
with 10 charity partners.
April 2018
2018: Scottish Enterprise
Unlocking ambition
programme
2018:
220. Today’sAgenda
• AJourneyto ITResilience
- What isTrueIT Resilience
- What are we seeingchangein the industry
- Howan IT Resilienceplatform canhelp keepyouonthe right sideof these.
221. Today’sAgenda
• AJourneyto ITResilience
- What isTrueIT Resilience
- What are we seeingchangein the industry
- Howan IT Resilienceplatform canhelp keepyouonthe right sideof these.
229. Today’sAgenda
• AJourneyto ITResilience
- What isTrueIT Resilience
- What are we seeingchangein the industry
- Howan IT Resilienceplatform canhelp keepyouonthe right sideof these.
232. Zerto is aleading provider of
enterprise disaster recovery and
ITresilience managementsoftware
233. Today’sAgenda
• AJourneyto ITResilience
- What isTrueIT Resilience
- What are we seeingchangein the industry
- Howan IT Resilienceplatform canhelp keepyouonthe right sideof these.
234. Workload
Mobility
Move with ease
and without risk
Multi-
Cloud
Agility
Leverage cloud to
acceleratebusiness
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Availability
Deliver analways-on
customerexperience
Zerto ITResilience Platform
235. ITResilience PlatformTM
Orchestration & Automation
Non-DisruptiveWorkload MobilityMulti-Cloud
Continuous Data Protection
Journal-BasedRecovery
Long-Term RetentionApplication Consistency Grouping
Continuous Data Replication
Analytics & Control
241. Zerto Mobility UseCases
Zerto CSPMigrations
Migrations toand from any Zerto CSP
Hybrid CloudMobility
Private Cloud Migrations
Any Storage, Multi-Hypervisor, CrossHypervisor
Public CloudMigrations
Migrate to and from Public Clouds
Multi-CloudMigrations
Migrate Between PublicClouds
258. Energy company
produces 100 units of
power in location “A”
~50 units of power is LOST to transportation and downstream costs,
energy state conversions, and powerline resistance factors
ONLY 50 units of power reach
Location B. Power is expensive
due to these inefficiencies
259. Energy company produces 100 units of
power for well site located crypto-
currency mining operation in location “A”
No power is transported or
lost. All power is consumed
at point of production
Instead of manufacturing one barrel of oil and selling it to market—with all of the associated downstream costs—it is
consumed onsite to power the future financial sector’s infrastructure.
This process produces 300%+more income than selling the energy to market utilising the traditional method
In fact, due to the added value to
the financial sector, each unit of
energy produced makes more
money in the mined coins
260. Location “B” now has 15,000+ units of power for the cost of 100*
*Per annum of mining equipment feasibility, where the renewables last for an average of 25 years (300 x 2 x 25 = 15,000 units of power for the cost of 100)
**Tongue in cheek expression. We know we haven’t broken the laws of physics, or the first law of thermodynamics. But we have created an amazing workaround
to produce more energy from a limited source of hydrocarbons
H2
Geothermal Power
Station
Electrolysis Plant
Powered by
Geothermal Plant
O2
O2 to existing gas
infrastructure.
H2 to power cars
The value added in utilising this system can be used to fund the
construction of renewable energy generation closer to the target market.
Simply put, we can produce and sell 150kW/h* of green renewable
energy—over a 25 year period—to our target market, for every 1kW/h of
energy used—by burning hydrocarbons—powering our mining operation.
In essence, energy is “transferred” over the blockchain, and due to the
added value gained in utilising our process, “break” the first law of
thermodynamics (through a workaround). We can say this because we sell
15,000% more energy to the market that we burn in hydrocarbons
producing the energy at the well site
$$$$$$
Value transmitted on the
cloud, over the internet in
mined cryptocurrency coins
and exchanged into dollars
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261. 1. 100 units of dirty energy per year in location “A”
utilized at source through cryptocurrency mining
2. Digital currency is then used to build renewable
energy projects closer to target markets
3. Renewable projects generate 300+ units of clean
energy per year for an average of 25 years at
location “B”
262. • The value of Bitcoin has risen ~100% since
September 2017, and ~1,000% since September
2016.
• F o r e v e r y i n c r e a s e i n t h e v a l u e o f t h e m i n e d
a n d s t o r e d c r y p t o c u r r e n c i e s , t h e r e i s a
d i r e c t l y p r o p o r t i o n a l i n c r e a s e i n t h e n u m b e r
o f r e n e w a b l e e n e r g y g e n e r a t o r s t h a t c a n b e
b u i l t
• T h e 3 0 0 u n i t s o f e n e r g y i n t h e p r e s e n t a t i o n
e x a m p l e d o n o t t a k e t h i s i n t o c o n s i d e r a t i o n
• N o r d o e s t h i s e x a m p l e t a k e i n t o a c c o u n t w e l l
e s t a b l i s h e d t a x s a v i n g s g a i n e d b y u t i l i s i n g
t h e e n e r g y o n b o a r d o f f s h o r e i n s t a l l a t i o n s
• T h e r e f o r e , t h e a n n u a l 3 0 0 + r e n e w a b l e e n e r g y
u n i t s f r o m 1 0 0 h y d r o c a r b o n e n e r g y u n i t s i s
a n e x t r e m e l y c o n s e r v a t i v e e s t i m a t e
• The value of cryptocurrencies is expected to rise on
the back of the widespread adoption of blockchain
technology
• This method can use current, dwindling energy
sources to build long-term renewable energy
projects
• The project also has the potential to compound
efficiency factors further by:
• D e s a l i n i s i n g w a t e r t o e x t r a c t h e a t f r o m t h e
s y s t e m
• C a p t u r i n g a n d e i t h e r s e q u e s t r a t i n g o r
m o n e t i s i n g c a r b o n p a r t i c u l a t e s a t s o u r c e