Regtech in Fintech + QuSandbox Demo
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Discussion Topics: • Fintech innovation and regulation • Opportunities and the future for companies • Regulatory sandboxes: Try before adoption • Regulation landscape and changes anticipated in banking • What are companies doing to address regulatory risk? • What is QuantUniversity doing in this space? QuSandbox Demo
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Regtech in Fintech + QuSandbox Demo
- 1. Location: QuantUniversity Meetup 8/10/2017 Regtech 101 + QuSandbox Demo 2016 Copyright QuantUniversity LLC. Presented By: Sri Krishnamurthy, CFA, CAP sri@quantuniversity.com www.analyticscertificate.com
- 2. 2 Slides will be available at: http://www.analyticscertificate.com/fintech
- 3. • Founder of QuantUniversity LLC. and www.analyticscertificate.com • Advisory and Consultancy for Financial Analytics • Prior Experience at MathWorks, Citigroup and Endeca and 25+ financial services and energy customers. • Regular Columnist for the Wilmott Magazine • Author of forthcoming book “Financial Modeling: A case study approach” published by Wiley • Charted Financial Analyst and Certified Analytics Professional • Teaches Analytics in the Babson College MBA program and at Northeastern University, Boston Sri Krishnamurthy Founder and CEO 3
- 4. 4 Quantitative Analytics and Big Data Analytics Onboarding • Trained more than 1000 students in Quantitative methods, Data Science and Big Data Technologies using MATLAB, Python and R • Launching ▫ Analytics Certificate Program (Spring 2018) ▫ Fintech Certification program (Fall 2017)
- 6. 6 • August 2017 ▫ Machine Learning models for Credit Risk – August 13th ARPM NYC ▫ Fintech Certificate Program(www.analyticscertificate.com/fintech ) Open house – August 17th Boston • September 2017 ▫ Creating Credit Risk models with Alternate data – September 26th • October 2017 ▫ Fintech PRMIA event – Boston – Oct 3rd ▫ Big Data Bootcamp – Boston ▫ Fintech Certificate Program – Boston – Launch! • November 2017 ▫ ODSC West Events of Interest
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- 8. 8 • Boston • New York • Chicago • Washington DC • San Francisco QuantUniversity meetups
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- 10. 10 • According to the IOSCO Research Report on Financial Technologies(Fintech): “The term Financial Technologies or “Fintech” is used to describe a variety of innovative business models and emerging technologies that have the potential to transform the financial services industry ” What is Fintech? https://www.iosco.org/library/pubdocs/pdf/IOSCOPD554.pdf
- 11. 11 • Offer one or more specific financial products or services in an automated fashion through the use of the internet. • Unbundle the different financial services traditionally offered by service providers -- incumbent banks, brokers or investment managers. For example: • Equity crowdfunding platforms intermediate share placements • Peer-to-peer lending platforms intermediate or sell loans • Robo-advisers provide automated investment advice • Social trading platforms offer brokerage and investing services Innovative Fintech business models Ref: https://www.iosco.org/library/pubdocs/pdf/IOSCOPD554.pdf
- 12. 12 Fintech being noticed by Regulators
- 13. 13 • Technologies like: ▫ Cognitive computing ▫ Machine learning ▫ Artificial intelligence ▫ Distributed ledger technologies (DLT) can be used to supplement both Fintech new entrants and traditional incumbents, and carry the potential to materially change the financial services industry. Emerging technologies https://www.iosco.org/library/pubdocs/pdf/IOSCOPD554.pdf
- 18. 18 Technology enabling the creation or transformation of business models for reporting, monitoring & compliance in highly regulated industries OR Delivering regulatory compliance through technology improving upon current and traditional ways What is Regtech?
- 19. 19 •Scenario analysis, modeling and forecasting •AML, Fraud detection •Monitoring payments and transactions •Trading analytics •Regulatory compliance and tracking model changes •Model risk, Stress testing etc. Opportunities for companies
- 20. 20 Companies in this space Source: https://letstalkpayments.com/regtech-companies-in- us-driving-down-compliance-costs-innovation/
- 21. 21 • The regulatory sandbox allows businesses to test innovative products, services, business models and delivery mechanisms in the real market, with real consumers. • The sandbox is a supervised space, open to both authorized and unauthorized firms, that provides firms with: ▫ reduced time-to-market at potentially lower cost ▫ appropriate consumer protection safeguards built in to new products and services ▫ better access to finance • https://www.fca.org.uk/firms/regulatory-sandbox Regulatory Sandboxes
- 22. 22 Who the sandbox is for: • Businesses seeking authorization ▫ The sandbox may be useful for firms that need to become authorised before testing their innovation in a live environment. • Authorized businesses ▫ The sandbox may be useful for authorized firms looking for clarity about rules before testing an idea that doesn’t easily fit into the existing regulatory framework. • Technology businesses supporting financial services firms ▫ Technology businesses that want to provide services to our regulated firms (eg: through outsourcing agreements) can also apply for the sandbox if they need clarity about rules before testing. Regulatory Sandboxes
- 23. 23 US Regulators catching up
- 24. 24 • Creating internal labs or innovation houses ▫ Manulife - LOFT ▫ DCU – Fintech Innovation center • Partnering or prototyping Fintech solutions ▫ Fidelity promoting Fintech Sandbox • Internal Innovation to replicate Fintech business models ▫ Fidelity Go What are companies doing?
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- 26. Model Validation • “Model risk is the potential for adverse consequences from decisions based on incorrect or misused model outputs and reports. “ [1] • “Model validation is the set of processes and activities intended to verify that models are performing as expected, in line with their design objectives and business uses. ” [1] • Ref: • [1] . Supervisory Letter SR 11-7 on guidance on Model Risk
- 27. 27 Popularity of Open-source software in the enterprise increasing
- 28. 28 • Financial Services customers like Capital One, FINRA, and Pacific Life are moving critical workloads to AWS Cloud maturing
- 29. 29 • Versions and packages Challenges in adopting Open-source software in the enterprise
- 30. 30 • Difficulty in replicating and reconciling differences in environments Challenges in adopting Open-source software in the enterprise
- 31. 31 • Deploying models built by Data Scientists still a problem Challenges in adopting Open-source software in the enterprise Data Scientists Enterprise IT
- 32. 32 • The Try before adopt model is difficult with unproven open-source solutions Challenges in adopting Open-source software in the enterprise
- 34. 34 Quant/Enterprise use cases • Create an environment that can support multiple platforms and programming languages • Enable remote running of applications • Ability to try out a Github submission/ someone else’s code • Facilitate creation of Docker images to create replicable containers • Create prototyping environments for Data Science/Quant teams • Enable Data scientists/Quants to deploy their solutions • Enable running multiple tasks and jobs • Enable concurrent running of multiple experiments • Integrate seamlessly with the cloud to scale up computations Use cases
- 35. 35 Fintech use cases • To demonstrate solutions to enterprises • Create customized enterprise trials for companies that don’t permit installation of vendor software prior to procurement • To manage quick updates • Enable effective integration and hosting of services (REST APIs) Use cases
- 36. 36 Academic use cases • Enable creation of course material and exercises that could be shared • Enable students and workshop participants to focus on the data science experiments rather than environment setting Use cases
- 37. 37 Creating replicable environments Creating and manage replicable environments (Code + software + data) in a single portal
- 38. 38 Creating replicable environments Create replicable environments (Code + software + data) through a easy point & click tool and publish to Dockerhub or manage internally Share it with target users
- 39. 39 User portal • Run multiple experiments in pre-created environments (Code + software + data) • Deploy your own solutions • Run any Docker image or Github submission on the cloud
- 40. 40 Run Jupyter notebooks and prototype applications
- 41. 41 Run Rstudio and Shiny applications
- 42. 42 Run any Docker application
- 43. 43 Manage tasks and errors
- 44. 44 User portal • Dockerize and deploy applications on AWS in just a few steps
- 45. 45 Deploy applications with ease
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- 49. Thank you! Checkout our programs at: www.analyticscertificate.com/fintech www.qusandbox.com Sri Krishnamurthy, CFA, CAP Founder and CEO QuantUniversity LLC. srikrishnamurthy www.QuantUniversity.com Information, data and drawings embodied in this presentation are strictly a property of QuantUniversity LLC. and shall not be distributed or used in any other publication without the prior written consent of QuantUniversity LLC. 49