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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The function will download the price data of any given ticker in the SHARADAR database from Quandl."

A block of code is set as follows:

#list of key intent, product and attribute
product_list = ['deposit','loan']
attribute_list = ['pricing','balance']
intent_list = ['check']
print('loading nlp model')
nlp = spacy.load('en_core_web_md')

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

          sudo cp dataset.csv /var/lib/Neo4j/import/edge.csv
          
sudo cp product.csv /var/lib/Neo4j/import/product.csv
sudo cp customer.csv /var/lib/Neo4j/import/customer.csv

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "An asset class is defined as a group of assets that bear similar characteristics."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.
Tips and tricks appear like this.