Trends & Signals
Explore the latest insights, thought leadership, and research from FCAT®
Video Games and the Rise of NFTs as a Digital Asset Class
October 26, 2021
Blockchain-based video games promise to accelerate the adoption of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and greatly expand the digital asset ecosystem. By making in-game items NFTs that are embedded in the blockchain, players can take ownership of the digital...
Will VR Lead the Way to Better Business Relationships?
October 5, 2021
FCAT teams have been experimenting with Virtual Reality since 2014. Prompted by Zoom fatigue after 1.5 years of working remotely, several teams within Fidelity are exploring VR as a better way to work together. Some use the VR loaner program...
FCAT’s Quantum Work Garners National Attention
September 17, 2021
National business publication Business Insider recently detailed 15 innovative tech projects at some of the nation’s leading financial services firms.
FCAT and IonQ Explore Machine Learning With Quantum Computing
September 15, 2021
This PoC showcases how quantum computing can be used to generate high-quality synthetic data, and thus help in backtesting financial models.
How Creative AI Can Fasttrack Innovation
September 2, 2021
As companies try to figure out how and when to bring employees back to the office, one often purported benefit of doing so is that the proximity to colleagues – and the chance for spontaneous meetings and conversations – spurs innovation. Others...
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.