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Published inJul 2020
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Ganesh Prasad Kumble
Ganesh Prasad Kumble
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Ganesh Prasad Kumble

Ganesh Prasad Kumble is an expert in emerging technologies and business strategy. He has co-founded, bootstrapped, and mentored several start-ups and initiatives across SaaS, e-commerce, IoT, Blockchain, and AI. He is a contributor to several open source projects, including Ethereum and IPFS. He authored TEXA in 2017 - an ethical AI initiative based on the Turing test that is used to safely assess multi-context robots and AI models in a quantifiable manner. He is currently leading platform innovation efforts at Aicumen Technologies, Inc. and KIP Foundation, building a general-purpose business protocol featuring identity management, third-party services, distributed compute, and immutable storage. Ganesh is also a moderator at the Ethereum Research forum.
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Applying AI and blockchain to financial services

The BFSI is the backbone of the economic operations of the whole world as we know it. With trillions of dollars of assets under management, managing money effectively at a digital scale has become a lucrative opportunity and hence needs to be revisited due to some inefficiencies in the current systems that generally rely on traditional methods.

The following diagram depicts the relationship between stakeholders in the BFSI industry:

Fig 3.3: Stakeholders in BFSI

As shown in the preceding diagram, public consumers like you and me access capital and services through banks, insurance companies, and Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFC). Also, note that companies and organizations that provide services to us also rely on these financial institutions.

Now, let's explore some of the issues faced by the BFSI industry.

Issues in the domain

The following are the top three issues faced by the BFSI industry:

  • Access to capital: The unbanked...
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Ganesh Prasad Kumble

Ganesh Prasad Kumble is an expert in emerging technologies and business strategy. He has co-founded, bootstrapped, and mentored several start-ups and initiatives across SaaS, e-commerce, IoT, Blockchain, and AI. He is a contributor to several open source projects, including Ethereum and IPFS. He authored TEXA in 2017 - an ethical AI initiative based on the Turing test that is used to safely assess multi-context robots and AI models in a quantifiable manner. He is currently leading platform innovation efforts at Aicumen Technologies, Inc. and KIP Foundation, building a general-purpose business protocol featuring identity management, third-party services, distributed compute, and immutable storage. Ganesh is also a moderator at the Ethereum Research forum.
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