Trends & Signals
Explore the latest insights, thought leadership, and research from FCAT®
Teaching a Robot to Read
August 18, 2021
Over the last several years one of the FCAT AI teams - code named “RoboReader” - has been working on processing documents and taking needed information from unstructured text and transforming it into structured data that can be used by the business....
Introducing DAT: The Most Convenient Way to Monitor Your Crypto
August 11, 2021
A new version of DAT, the Digital Asset Tracker, has been released, giving users the ability to connect to more exchanges than ever.In the digital assets landscape, a few elements remain constant: new coins, new ERC20 tokens, and new smart contracts...
The Future of Work
July 29, 2021
The Future of Work was brought into sharp focus during the Covid-19 pandemic, as workers worldwide found themselves suddenly in the greatest work-from-home experiment in modern times. This crisis has shifted values, behaviours, and attitudes across...
How Will Quantum Computing Impact Financial Planning?
July 26, 2021
Today’s financial professionals spend considerable time using computer models to predict potential investment outcomes over time.
How ZK-Rollups Work
July 8, 2021
Scalability has always been an issue for public ledgers, this is old news. It’s a problem that engineers have been trying to solve for a number of years now.
The Cost of Manipulating AI
June 23, 2021
We’ve all received email messages with misspellings, designed to outsmart AI-driven spam filters. Perhaps you’ve also heard about how a two-inch piece of tape tricked Tesla cars into speeding up 50 miles per hour.1 What these and hundreds of other...
Designing Automated Systems That Humans Will Trust
May 17, 2021
Automation is moving up the value chain, taking on more “human” tasks like financial planning, factory floor management, and home health care. In response, companies need to reevaluate how to build trust in automated systems, considering both their...
Introducing Sherlock: A New Tool to Analyze Digital Assets
April 30, 2021
Digital assets continue to display tremendous growth, as investment banks, private equity groups, financial advisors and commercial banks grow more comfortable considering crypto as a potential investment opportunity and eventually a more widely...
Implementing Digital Signatures in Rust
April 14, 2021
I’m attempting to learn the Rust programming language, and for me, the only way to learn something is by trying to solve a problem.
How Exclusion Affects Consumers Across the Financial Lifecycle
April 6, 2021
Part One of a series about Inclusive Financial ServicesFinancial exclusion is a reality for millions of Americans who don’t have access to useful and affordable financial products and services delivered in a responsible and sustainable way. The FDIC...