Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Bristol Gate Capital Partners CEO Richard Hamm (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: When a bank does hire you to do this kind of work, double-click down to exactly how the technology works and what it is that it’s doing on behalf of the bank. Richard Hamm: What the banks want us to do is to satisfy their investment-oriented customers by giving them a good return.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eastbanc Technologies, Chairman Wolf Ruzicka and Polina Reshetova, Head of Data Science (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You said earlier that you are a close partner of Microsoft Azure. Azure is one of the platforms that is really working hard to establish as much abstraction as possible so developers can develop AI applications on top of that. What opportunities do you see emerging out of that trend? Microsoft is investing

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eastbanc Technologies, Chairman Wolf Ruzicka and Polina Reshetova, Head of Data Science (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk to me a little bit about the way your company is organized? You do generic software development, but it looks like you’re doing specific stuff in AI-related technologies. What percentage of your company is focused on AI-related technologies? Wolf Ruzicka: Before we go there, we have one more example that

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