NAB tackles 'hundreds' of machine learning projects

NAB has found "hundreds" of use cases across the bank for machine learning and analytics technology and is in the process of standing them up. Speaking at the AWS summit in Singapore last month, executive general manager of the bank's program management office, Kyle McNamara, provided extra detail on initiatives also spoken about at the AWS Sydney summit. In Sydney, NAB revealed it is standing up an AWS-backed elastic data lake called discovery cloud, which will act as the foundation for its machine learning and analytics push. In Singapore, however, NAB revealed the initial scope of its analytics efforts. "At NAB there are literally hundreds of use cases in marketing, risk, operations and compliance that can and are starting to leverage analytics and machine learning," McNamara said.