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What is Model Risk and Why Does it Matter?

DataRobot Blog

This provides a great amount of benefit, but it also exposes institutions to greater risk and consequent exposure to operational losses. The stakes in managing model risk are at an all-time high, but luckily automated machine learning provides an effective way to reduce these risks.

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AI’s ‘SolarWinds Moment’ Will Occur; It’s Just a Matter of When

O'Reilly on Data

The financial collapse of 2008 led to tighter regulation of banks and financial institutions. Compared to cybersecurity risks, the scale of AI’s destructive power is potentially far greater. Even when catastrophes don’t kill large numbers of people, they often change how we think and behave.

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What Are the Most Important Steps to Protect Your Organization’s Data?

Smart Data Collective

Based on figures from Statista , the volume of data breaches increased from 2005 to 2008, then dropped in 2009 and rose again in 2010 until it dropped again in 2011. In 2009 for example, data breaches dropped to 498 million (from 656 million in 2008) but the number of records exposed increased sharply to 222.5 million in 2008).

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AI Data, Traditional Trading, and Modern Investments

Smart Data Collective

By analyzing, identifying, and predicting these trends, analysts are able to help their clients minimize risk while enjoying large returns. Fortunately, the first robo-advisors were created in 2008. The market is constantly changing, which is why many professional analysts make careers out of studying it.

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How Financial Institutions Are Becoming Champions Of Big Data

Smart Data Collective

However, in the wake of the financial crash of 2008, lending has undergone tightening. Fraud remains a major risk for banks, and is only set to increase as people become more open with their data. According to Financial Regulation News, banks lost $2.2bn to fraud throughout 2016, as revealed by the most recently collated statistics.

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PODCAST: COVID19 | Redefining Digital Enterprises – Episode 6: The Impact of COVID-19 on Supply Chain Management

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It is even more essential now that supply chains are empowered with a high standard of data and analytics sophistication to be able to cost-effectively serve the company’s purpose and combat risks at the same time. You know, Chief Risk Officers, for example, will no longer be confined to the credit industry. Anushruti: Perfect.

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Our quest for robust time series forecasting at scale

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Such a model risks conflating important aspects, notably the growth trend, with other less critical aspects. In other words, there is an asymmetry of risk-reward when there exists the possibility of misspecifying the weights in $X_C$. This imbues the forecasting routine with two attractive properties.