Artificial Intelligence Applications in Banking and Financial Services

Abhishek Gupta possess over 18 years of experience in analytics driven advisory, with focus on enterprise-wide risk management, forensics for financial crimes and corporate strategy. Abhishek was also the risk management expert for McKinsey & Co. and then with Sutra Management Consultancies, where he has successfully worked with over 30 banks and financial institutions on Risk and Compliance offerings, South East Asia, North America and Europe. Abhishek has been working with his team on new emerging technologies like text analytics, voice and image analytics. Academically, he has also been one of the co-inventors of a provisional patent on fraud management technology in India, authored few research papers in reputed journals and has been a visiting faculty for MBA colleges. Dwijendra Nath Dwivedi is having over 17 years of experience in applying Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics across different industries, e.g.BFSI, Government, Telco, and utilities in various functional areas, e.g. Risk and marketing. He conducts AI Value seminars and workshops, for the executive audience and for power users. He is currently leading Analytics and AI practice for EMEA at SAS and helps to enable organizations in applications of AI. As a thought leader, he is bridging the gap between business needs and analytical enablers and to drive analytical thinking into successful business strategies. He completed his MPhil. from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development and research. He is currently pursuing his PhD in AI from the Department of Economics and Finance from Krakow University of Economics. Jigar Shah is a techno-management professional with 12 years of work experience into BFSI domain in business and analytics, consulting, IT services, project management and private equity. He carries hands-on experience in executing challenging assignments and consulting clients in areas of financial risk, compliance, and business intelligence. He has a rich experience in working with teams and clients across geographies.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to financial crimes and its participants.- Chapter 2: Anti financial crimes organization overview in a financial institution.- Chapter 3: Financial institutions approach to curbing and mitigating financial crimes.- Chapter 4: IT solutions for monitoring and managing financial crimes.- Chapter 5: Typical challenges faced by AML and compliance divisions.- Chapter 6: Applications of artificial intelligence and digitization in financial crimes.- Chapter 7: Data organization and governance in financial crimes.- Chapter 8: Machine learning approach to customer due diligence and watchlist monitoring.- Chapter 9: Applying machine learning for transaction monitoring to optimize false positives.- Chapter 10: application of network analysis to further improve detection of financial crimes.- Chapter 11: AML investigation and application of digitization and machine learning for saving investigation time.- Chapter 12: Futuristic enterprise level AI driven Financial Crime Investigation unit (FCU) for a financial institution.

“Artificial intelligence applications in banking and financial services arrives as a timely and authoritative guidebook for financial institutions seeking to harness advanced technologies against sophisticated criminal threats. Authored by Abhishek Gupta, Dwijendra Nath Dwivedi, and Jigar Shah, this meticulously structured book serves not just as a theoretical primer, but more crucially, as a practical handbook for banking and compliance professionals, providing actionable insights and integration strategies for leveraging artificial intelligence(AI) in financial crime prevention.” (Goran Trajkovski, Computing Reviews, June 13, 2024)