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15 January 2025

Promoting Fairness and Exploring Algorithmic Discrimination in Financial Decision Making Through Explainable Artificial Intelligence

In this white paper a comprehensive toolbox is developed, grounded in an ethical “rights toexplanation” framework, deploying state-of-the-art machine learning/artificial ...
Regulation
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15 January 2025

Fairness and Discrimination in Lending Decisions: Multiple Protected Characteristics Analysis

We build upon the comprehensive toolbox developed in Jain, Bowden and Cummins(2024), extending its applicability to multiple protected characteristics. We ...
Regulation
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15 January 2025

Enhancing Financial Crime Detection By Implementing End-to-end AI Frameworks

Economic crime, encompassing money laundering, fraud, scams, and various otherillegal financial activities, continues to evolve with the emergence of sophisticated ...
Regulation
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15 January 2025

Using Automation and AI toCombat Money Laundering

Money laundering, which is the criminal activity of processing criminal proceeds to disguise their origin is one of the gravest ...
Regulation
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15 January 2025

ESG Greenwashing And Applications of AI For Measurement

“ESG greenwashing” refers to the strategic communication tactics firms use toselectively disclose their ESG conduct to stakeholders. ESG greenwashing strategy, ...
Regulation
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15 January 2025

Simplifying Compliance through Explainable Intelligent Automation

We discuss how explainability in AI-systems can deliver transparency and build trusttowards greater adoption of automation to support financial regulation ...
Regulation
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15 January 2025

Explainable AI For FinancialRisk Management

We overview the opportunities that Explainable AI (XAI) offer to enhance financial riskmanagement practice, which feeds into the objective of ...
Fintech firms
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15 January 2025

New US Boost for Scottish Tech Companies

Five innovative Scottish firms will showcase their solutions in the Silicon Valley in the US. The Scottish Enterprise’s US MarketBooster ...
Announcement
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09 January 2025

Fintech Innovation in Scotland delivers growth with 8% Increase in employment

The FinTech Scotland Cluster recorded an 8% year-on-year employment growth in 2024 bringing the total number of people working in ...
Fintech firms
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08 January 2025

Scotcoin Targeting a $250M Market Debut

Scottish fintech Scotcoin will be listing on a tier 1 cryptocurrency exchange this February valuing the project at $250 million (£200 million), signifying a a ...
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06 January 2025

Fintech Innovation in Scotland delivers growth with 8% Increase in employment

The FinTech Scotland Cluster recorded an 8% year-on-year employment growth in 2024 bringing the total number of people working in ...
Skills & Talents
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16 December 2024

Unlocking the Potential of AI in Finance: Insights from Hays’ Latest Research

The financial services sector is going through important changes driven by the increasing adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). According to ...