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Topic

Big data, machine learning and capital markets

Abstract

Capital markets have always been big data intensive operations. Whether it is market data, Risk analytics or regulatory compliance, data plays a very critical role in determining the outcome. Since last financial crisis, regulatory supervision has led to a renewed focus on data management, lineage and common data sources across organizational silos. Big data and machine learning present technological breakthroughs enabling operational efficiencies as well as regulatory compliance in large investment banks. This session will focus on a few use cases from a large capital market participant.

Profile

Prabhat Vaish is Executive Director and global co-head of technology at Mizuho Capital Markets and a Financial Technology and Applied Analytics consultant to various financial firms. He has more than twenty years of investment banking experience in various roles in trading, risk management, and compliance analytics with firms like Mizuho Bank, Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Prior to his investment banking and capital markets career, and after graduating with Masters in Computer Science and Applications, he spent nine years working for Federal Government of India in various capacities working towards sustainable development using geographical and remote sensing data. Prabhat is also an avid reader, a programmer and occasional teacher.