financial services

No. 206: Congressional AI Task Force | NYC AI Center | Microsoft Opens AI Playbook

May 11, 2019

Technology

alma adams, congress, financial services, Machine learning, maxine waters, Microsoft, New York City, research and development, shanghai, yvonne johnson

Waters Announces Committee Task Forces on Financial Technology and Artificial Intelligence (US House Committee on Financial Services) I’m glad to see Rep. Alma Adams on the artificial intelligence committee. My hope is that she asks those questions that get at the unintended consequences around the meshing of AI technology and financial services and those impacts…
No. 152: 3AMReads: Upside in African Financial Services | Lonmin Moves Ops to Marikana | China Pledges $100B

May 15, 2017

Africa, Geopolitics, Notes

$100B, Africa, China, energy, financial services, infrastructure, Kenya, marikana, marikana massacre, Mining, South Africa, Technology, Trade

Investor Highlights African Financial Services Opportunity Despite Headwinds Kurt Davis surveys the financial services industry across Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Cote d’Ivoire as ones where investors will find an upside though the current state of the industry isn’t the prettiest to look at. His projection of Cote d’Ivoire becoming the centerpiece…