Ein Blog der ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften
At the AI+X Summit in Zurich Oerlikon, we joined over 2,000 AI experts, industry professionals, and thought leaders for a dynamic exchange of ideas and a showcase of cutting-edge technology. The summit featured inspiring keynotes, interactive tracks, and live demos, all demonstrating the transformative impact of AI across a variety of sectors. On Thursday, October […]
The AI in Risk & Compliance – Know-How & Networking Event focuses on cross-bank exchange and the transfer of relevant knowledge regarding how AI impacts the risk and compliance functions within financial institutions. Technological progress is reshaping the risk and compliance functions of Swiss and Liechtenstein financial institutions. It is crucial to position oneself, leverage […]
The Institute of Wealth & Asset Management is part of Switzerland’s largest AI conference, the AI+X Summit 2024, with over 3,000 participants in Zurich. The AI+X Summit is organized by the ETH AI Center in collaboration with the ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften and the Universität Zürich | University of Zurich (UZH), offers researchers and academics […]
Using sentiment information in the analysis of financial markets has attracted much attention. Natural language processing methods can be used to extract market sentiment information from texts such as news articles. The objective of this paper is to extract financial market sentiment information from news articles and use the estimated sentiment scores to predict the […]
In recent years, data science methods have been developed considerably and have consequently found their way into many business processes in banking and finance. One example is the review and approval process of credit applications, where they are employed with the aim to reduce rare but costly credit defaults in portfolios of loans. But there […]
Our innovative idea is to provide a Proof of Concept concerning a superior and adaptive rating system applicable to both SME and personal lending, able to cope with low-quality, sparse data that is commonplace in the context of P2P lenders. If successful, we will have both a new methodology (how to deal with low-quality, sparse […]
“The major winners will be financial services companies that embrace technology.” Alexander Peh, PayPal and Braintree Over the last few years, Reinforcement Learning (RL) has gained significant attention as a framework for learning optimal decisions even in complex environments. Moreover, RL is currently considered one of the most promising research areas in machine learning and […]
For Switzerland, the reputation of stable long-standing financial institutions has always represented a crucial advantage for the acquisition and retention of customers. However, as the financial service industry becomes more global, clients expect personalized offerings and inclusiveness of service which in turn requires lenders to rely extensively on alternative data and advanced modelling techniques. Swiss […]
Private Alpha Switzerland is a leading developer of investment strategies for asset management in Switzerland in the field of algorithm-based and AI-assisted investing. As an investment advisor, you are responsible for two fund products in this area. This opens up this highly sophisticated investment approach to a broad investor base.
Identifying optimal strategies for sustainable investing remains hampered by a plethora of technical and methodological challenges. We propose to leverage patent data and AI to take green finance to a new level of efficiency in mitigating global threats such as climate change and pollution.
