Regulation
23 January 2025
15 firms selected to tackle financial crime
We’re thrilled to announce the 15 innovative firms selected to progress to the next stage of our Innovation Call on ...
Announcement
20 January 2025
Funding Boost for Smart Data Foundry
Edinburgh-based Smart Data Foundry (SDF) secures £3 million in funding to launch a new Financial Data Service. This initiative, funded ...
Fintech firms
16 January 2025
Discover Nethermind as they join the FinTech Scotland Community
Nethermind, a fintech that specialises in blockchain research and engineering company, just joined the FinTech Scotland community. This contributes to Nethermind’s ...
Fintech firms
16 January 2025
Theo Paphitis Impressed by Scottish fintech GiftRound.
Scottish fintech GiftRound, has just received a significant boost from famous entrepreneur and small business champion, Theo Paphitis. This endorsement comes ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
Promoting Fairness and Exploring Algorithmic Discrimination in Financial Decision Making Through Explainable Artificial Intelligence
In this white paper a comprehensive toolbox is developed, grounded in an ethical “rights toexplanation” framework, deploying state-of-the-art machine learning/artificial ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
Fairness and Discrimination in Lending Decisions: Multiple Protected Characteristics Analysis
We build upon the comprehensive toolbox developed in Jain, Bowden and Cummins(2024), extending its applicability to multiple protected characteristics. We ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
Enhancing Financial Crime Detection By Implementing End-to-end AI Frameworks
Economic crime, encompassing money laundering, fraud, scams, and various otherillegal financial activities, continues to evolve with the emergence of sophisticated ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
Using Automation and AI toCombat Money Laundering
Money laundering, which is the criminal activity of processing criminal proceeds to disguise their origin is one of the gravest ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
ESG Greenwashing And Applications of AI For Measurement
“ESG greenwashing” refers to the strategic communication tactics firms use toselectively disclose their ESG conduct to stakeholders. ESG greenwashing strategy, ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
Simplifying Compliance through Explainable Intelligent Automation
We discuss how explainability in AI-systems can deliver transparency and build trusttowards greater adoption of automation to support financial regulation ...
Regulation
15 January 2025
Explainable AI For Financial Risk Management
We overview the opportunities that Explainable AI (XAI) offer to enhance financial riskmanagement practice, which feeds into the objective of ...
Fintech firms
15 January 2025
New US Boost for Scottish Tech Companies
Five innovative Scottish firms will showcase their solutions in the Silicon Valley in the US. The Scottish Enterprise’s US MarketBooster ...