Tag: Financial Markets

  • Conducting Stock Performance Correlations with Machine Learning

    Conducting Stock Performance Correlations with Machine Learning

    Author: Wu Min is the Vice President of Product at Nebula Graph, an open-source distributed graph database. After earning his PhD at Zhejiang University, he worked at Alibaba Cloud and Ant Financial for years. He has also been active in academia. When evaluating companies and stocks, many investors might argue that the more data you…

  • 2021 Retrospective

    2021 Retrospective

    Before making any wild predictions for the new year, because obviously one has to make predictions about the fintech industry in 2022, one has to reckon with his past predictions. It is a healthy process that most people do not want to go through. Even though it is quite necessary. Firstly, because most predictions tend…

  • Why Financial Education Matters Now More Than Ever…

    Why Financial Education Matters Now More Than Ever…

    In very simple terms, financial education can make the difference between making a good and a bad financial decision. Why does it matter now more than ever? Because we are in a relatively good business and economic environment. That’s a good thing, right? Yes, of course. And that is relatively surprising given that we are…

  • The True Democratisation of Wealth Management

    The True Democratisation of Wealth Management

    Have we reached the stage of true democratisation of finance? Or, better yet, of wealth management? In case you have missed it, the digital broker Robinhood just did a big IPO. Big as in it gave the company an initial market capitalisation of $32 billion. Everybody was expecting it, but that’s not pocket change. At…

  • Credit Suisse, time for some real digital transformation?

    Credit Suisse, time for some real digital transformation?

    In case you have missed it, Credit Suisse recently lost a lot of money on a bet that turned sour. Actually, on several bets that happened to all go in the wrong direction, at roughly the same time. What is really going on at the Swiss bank? Isn’t an old incumbent bank inherently good at…

  • Top 5 books about Finance

    Top 5 books about Finance

    If you want to learn more about finance in order to better understand fintech, there are a few books that are must-reads. Even though fintech is actually a lot ‘tech’, you cannot really forget that it is finance after all. Without it, there is no fintech. Therefore, understanding basic financial concepts is quite key, especially…