Applying Artificial Intelligence in Wealth Management – Compelling Use Cases Across the Client Life Cycle

Alessandro is a Founder of Finantix. As Strategy Director, he focuses on the company’s growth and long-term product direction.

Alessandro has worked in product development and was responsible for large implementations of the company's wealth management solution at Tier 1 banks.

Before establishing Finantix, he was a consultant specialising in the areas of process management, collaboration and CRM.

Alessandro studied philosophy and Artificial Intelligence (at the time of the first wave of AI) at both UCLA (Los Angeles) and LMU (Munich). He has a passion for financial technologies, languages and history.

Dermot Corrigan is CEO of smartKYC, and draws upon his background in geopolitical and violent risk intelligence, reputational risk monitoring and deep web and media search technology to offer a unique perspective on how organisations can adopt an intelligence-led approach to identifying and responding to ESG risks. Having served in senior executive roles with market analysis firm Frost & Sullivan and corporate news distributor PR Newswire, he went on to create and launch the world’s first adverse media search engine for third party screening while leading the news and business information arm of LexisNexis (RELX PLC). He served as CEO of an Anglo-Australian visual search and facial recognition technology company (part of INM PLC) and has led two businesses to be successfully acquired, the political risk intelligence firm Exclusive Analysis (now Standard & Poors) and social media monitoring specialist Gorkana Group (now Cision).

Anthony has over 25 years’ experience in financial services and provides regulatory advisory expertise within the Financial Services Risk Management Division of EY. He heads up Regulatory Reform for Capital Markets and Asset Management, and Regulatory Intelligence. Prior to joining EY, Anthony spent significant time within the capital markets and asset management industry where he held numerous senior/ executive level roles in Trading, Operations, Risk Management at Accenture, Deutsche Börse, Merrill Lynch, SWIFT, Instinet and Reuters/Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Greg is a specialist in applied decision science, behavioural finance, and financial wellbeing – improving decisions through behavioural science.

Greg started the banking world’s first behavioural finance team as Head of Behavioural-Quant Finance at Barclays, which he built and led for a decade.

In 2016, he founded consultancy Centapse, recently merging with Oxford Risk to combine behavioural consulting with the development of decision support tools to help people (and organisations) across the financial services industry make better decisions.

Greg holds a PhD in Behavioural Decision Theory from Cambridge; is an Associate Fellow at Oxford’s Saïd Business School; a lecturer at Imperial College London; and author of Behavioral Investment Management.

Greg is also the creator of Open Outcry, a “reality opera” premiered in London in 2012, creating live performance from a functioning trading floor.

Wendy has been a wealth management journalist, researcher and consultant for a decade, covering a huge range of international markets and sub-sectors over that time. Known as a technology and communications specialist, she has written an array of in-depth reports on issues affecting private banks and wealth managers, ranging from compliance and innovation trends through to client experience, branding and marketing strategies. As well as speaking at conferences in both the UK and abroad, Wendy also regularly consults for wealth and asset managers, including carrying out research projects among end H/UHNW clients for both internal and external purposes.