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Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Banking

By : Jeffrey Ng, Subhash Shah
Book Image

Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Banking

By: Jeffrey Ng, Subhash Shah

Overview of this book

Remodeling your outlook on banking begins with keeping up to date with the latest and most effective approaches, such as artificial intelligence (AI). Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Banking is a practical guide that will help you advance in your career in the banking domain. The book will demonstrate AI implementation to make your banking services smoother, more cost-efficient, and accessible to clients, focusing on both the client- and server-side uses of AI. You’ll begin by understanding the importance of artificial intelligence, while also gaining insights into the recent AI revolution in the banking industry. Next, you’ll get hands-on machine learning experience, exploring how to use time series analysis and reinforcement learning to automate client procurements and banking and finance decisions. After this, you’ll progress to learning about mechanizing capital market decisions, using automated portfolio management systems and predicting the future of investment banking. In addition to this, you’ll explore concepts such as building personal wealth advisors and mass customization of client lifetime wealth. Finally, you’ll get to grips with some real-world AI considerations in the field of banking. By the end of this book, you’ll be equipped with the skills you need to navigate the finance domain by leveraging the power of AI.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Section 1: Quick Review of AI in the Finance Industry
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Section 2: Machine Learning Algorithms and Hands-on Examples

Basic concepts of the finance domain

In this section, we will look at basic concepts of the finance domain. We will start off by looking at how financial statements are formed. We will also understand the theoretical part of how to optimize capital structure.

Financial statements

Financial statements are used for the health report of a company. A financial report is part of an annual report for the listed company and is the basis of reading the financial health of a company.

Bankers recommend financial products from the results provided in this report, while investors make decisions by referencing this report for investment decisions. With regard to financial statements, there are two major types:

  • Balance sheet: This is about the overall net worth. It details the total investment (assets), what we owe to the other as debt (for example, credit card and mortgage, liability, and so on), and the net of the investment-less liability, that...