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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

Sensing market requirements using sentiment analysis

One of the key requirements of a security firm/investment bank on the sell side is to manufacture the relevant securities for the market. We have explored the fundamental behaviors and responsibilities of companies in Chapter 4, Mechanizing Capital Market Decisions, and Chapter 5, Predicting the Future of Investment Bankers. We learned about the momentum approach in Chapter 6, Automated Portfolio Management Using the Treynor–Black Model and ResNet. While the market does not always act rationally, it could be interesting to hear about the market's feelings. That is what we will be doing in this chapter.

In this example, we will be playing the role of the salesperson of an investment bank on the trading floor, trading in equities. What we want to find out is the likes and dislikes regarding securities so that they can market the relevant securities, including derivatives. We got our insights from Twitter Search...