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28 January 2025

Consumer Duty and Beyond

Season 5, episode 2 Listen to the full episode here. In this episode, we explore the complex challenges and opportunities ...
Regulation
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23 January 2025

Tackling Messaging Fraud

Season 5, episode 1 Listen to the full episode here. Join us for the second episode of the FinTech Scotland ...
Regulation
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...