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We’re delighted to welcome Nadya Hijazi, NED, ex-HSBC Managing Director, as a speaker at #CyberSecLive 2026! 📅 11 November 📍 Hilton London Tower Bridge Register here: ow.ly/ge7K50ZY758
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Don't miss this keynote at #CyberSecLive. Building resilience in a changing threat landscape: A regulatory perspective 🕘09.20 - 09.50 | Claire MacArthur, Head of Technology, Resilience and Cyber, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) 👉Register here: ow.ly/V9RY50ZY6Ib
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🏆There’s only TWO weeks left until the #FStechAwards entry deadline, can you bring home a trophy for you and your team? Ready to submit? ow.ly/UaHf50ZAOAC Supported by @ChurchInt
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🌟 Meet the Keynote 🌟 We’re delighted to welcome Ben Peet, UK/Europe CISO at Standard Chartered Bank, to #CyberSecLive 2026! 📅 11 November 📍 Hilton London Tower Bridge Register here: ow.ly/kpzK50ZXYcr
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RegTech Live is back! 📅 25 February 2027 | 📍Hilton London Tower Bridge Join us to hear from regulators, industry leaders and technology providers through keynotes, panel debates and practical case studies. 🔗Register here: ow.ly/H8wB50ZXupP
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🏆Put your brand in the spotlight! Enter the 2027 #FStechAwards to boost your marketing with PR and industry recognition. There's 36 categories to choose from, with the option to enter as many as you wish! Submit your entry: ow.ly/k11x50ZANoW Supported by @ChurchInt
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Martin explains how @LBGplc is now using a multi-agent architecture to tackle fraud. One of the keys to its success has been assembling a multi-disciplinary team to put it in place. "We stripped back a whole heap of normal organisational complexity," he says. #FSFutureofAI
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Amid immense call volumes, call centre colleagues have to act like counsellors, detectives, and mathematicians all at once explains Martin. @LBGplc has implemented AI agents that can prompt workers with suggested questions and assess caller legitimacy. #FSFutureofAI
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"Almost half of all crime in the UK now is fraud," explains says Tom Martin, Business Platform Lead for Economic Crime Prevention @LBGplc In a video, Martin shows how call centre workers can guide customers through identifying common fraud techniques #FSFutureofAI
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.@CloseBrothers have developed several AI tools to save time. The property department now saves around 40 hours per week, says Sholapurka, @JoinMultiverse #FSFutureofAI
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The most useful way to frame AI is as a people transformational programme. You need create a better relationship between people and machines. People have empathy and judgement, says Sholapurka, @CloseBrothers @JoinMultiverse #FSFutureofAI
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The future of AI in financial service will be decided by those who help their staff learn, adapt and invest, not those who just buy tech. Tech is becoming accessible to everyone, says Yogesh Sholapurkar, Group Chief Technology Officer @CloseBrothers #FSFutureofAI @JoinMultiverse
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Using hyperparameter tuned time-series models on the Isambard-AI supercomputer, @AllianceMBS demonstrated more accurate long-term model performance than off the shelf models, says Eghbal Rahimikia, Assistant Professor in Financial Technology @AllianceMBS
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"We found that short selling works better than the long side of the portfolio when we use LLMs," says Eghbal Rahimikia, Assistant Professor in Financial Technology @AllianceMBS #FSFutureofAI
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"The core quality of the data is more important," says says Eghbal Rahimikia, Assistant Professor in Financial Technology @AllianceMBS , explaining how FinText can produce accurate financial models using only 2008 data #FSFutureofAI
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Eghbal Rahimikia, Assistant Professor in Financial Technology @AllianceMBS , says he and his team trained custom trading LLMs FinText in just 22-46 hours. Rahimikia's team used data from 2013- 2016 for training, and found the model beats DeepSeek, Mistral, Qwen #FSFutureofAI
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“We are getting into areas like micropayments, where individual payment risk is low, but volume is high. AI can automatically authenticate these transactions,” says Vibhor Narang, Lead, Payment and Treasury Solutions, Transaction Banking Europe @StanChart #FSFutureofAI
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“Where we are finding AI to be very useful is in those few payments that don’t make it straight through processing”, says Edward Wilde, CTO @Form3Cloud. Chris Higham, Payments Product Owner (Director) @smbc_group agrees that this is vital. #FSFutureofAI
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“The problem is the clients are not willing to share their proprietary data with banks,” says Vibhor Narang, Lead, Payment and Treasury Solutions Transaction Banking Europe @StanChart . “Ideally FinTechs would bridge the gap, but there are risks there too.” #FSFutureofAI
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