Organisations across the board are looking to artificial intelligence (AI) to find ways to more accurately manage risk, enhance efficiencies to reduce operating costs, and improve experiences for clients and customers. Nvidia has conducted a survey with some of the world's leading financial institutions to find out what's on the top of their minds. Below are the top four findings gleaned from the "State of AI in Financial Services: 2023 Trends" survey taken by nearly 500 global financial services professionals. Financial services firms, like other enterprises, are looking to optimise spending for AI training and inference -- with the knowledge that sensitive data can't be migrated to the cloud. To do so cost-effectively, they're moving many of their compute-intensive workloads to the hybrid cloud.

John Harding is Regional Director, UK & amp; Ireland, at NVIDIA. Harding is passionate about global financial services and fintech and he leads the sales and developer teams responsible for growing the adoption of NVIDIA AI platforms across industry and the public sector. He looked at NVIDIA's findings that showed 83% of global financial services professions agree that'AI is important to my companies future's success', and 34% of respondents stated AI will increase their annual revenue by 20% or more", and in turn discussed how AI was found to have the largest impact on yielding more accurate models, creating a competitive advantage, developing new products and improving operational efficiencies: While stories about the seismic shift toward digital banking in the post-covid era abound, another technology revolution is taking place in capital markets: AI-powered trading. Recent market fluctuations and the impact of social media sentiment on stock prices have highlighted the need for active fund managers, traders and market makers to utilise AI in order to compete effectively in the future. These trends are apparent in some of the findings from NVIDIA's recent survey of financial services professionals from around the world. According to NVIDIA's "State of AI in Financial Services" report, 83% of global financial services professionals agreed with the statement that "AI is important to my company's future success."

This post is sponsored by NVIDIA. AI is enabling digital transformation across the financial services industry, from fintech and investment firms to commercial and retail banks. With AI, banks can better protect their customers' accounts, secure payments, improve return on investments, and personalize content, investments, and next-action recommendations for their customers. These AI-enabled services were also the top use cases for AI found in the NVIDIA "State of AI in Financial Services" survey of C-suite leaders, managers, developers and IT architects in the global financial industry: fraud detection, portfolio optimization, and sales and marketing enablement. The growing capabilities of AI and increase in available data mean that financial firms need to execute an AI strategy, or risk being left behind their competitors.

Like most industries, the financial services sector is being rapidly redefined by emerging new technologies. No longer limited to operating at the transactional level (think mobile banking and digital payments), increasingly advanced tech is encroaching into the more human-dominated roles within the sector. A Bank of England survey recently reported that financial services firms expect to see significant growth in their use of technologies such as Machine Learning over the next three years. These technologies are expected to be brought in to automate processes such as decision making – relying on algorithms to reach conclusions in a quicker, more accurate manner than a human. Aside of these obvious benefits which serve to boost company and industry performance and profitability, there is the added expected advantage that, by gathering the data necessary for this process to occur, the company can also discover new insights that can be exploited for commercial gain.

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