Amelie invited Matthew back to keynote the 16th Annual Structured Retail Products European conference in London, the premier global forum for structured products. The wider agenda covered how structured products are created and distributed, product and regulatory trends, digital disruption, and the inner workings of AI in the sector, including how different banks are deploying and using it.
Matthew's starting point was that incredibly powerful, increasingly democratised emerging technologies are transforming every sector faster than ever, which can have dire consequences for investors who don't understand the mechanisms behind the change, and that was the lens he brought to an audience of structured products professionals.
"As these trends continue to accelerate, and as the cost of accessing and leveraging them decreases, they will alter the competitive landscape and give rise to new alternative data sources."Matthew Griffin, London, February 2019
He shone a light on the rise of creative machines and AIs that are already changing how synthetic, or so called fake, data is curated, and what that means for how organisations analyse and trust information in future, as well as for their businesses and the partnerships they form.
He closed with a wide range of other trends that, as they accelerate and as the cost of accessing and leveraging them falls, will alter the competitive landscape and give rise to new alternative data sources.
