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Tech visionSeptember 25 2023

It’s all about the data for BMO Capital Markets

BMO Capital Markets’ chief information officer Kim Jaffee-Prado talks to Liz Lumley about harnessing unstructured data via natural language processing, and fostering a culture where delivery is everything.
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It’s all about the data for BMO Capital Markets

As part of her role at BMO's investment banking subsidiary, BMO Capital Markets, Kim Jaffee-Prado thinks mostly about data — structured and unstructured data; compliance data; data from Bloomberg terminals; data for identity and know your customer (KYC) activities; and data to feed into analytics engines powered by machine learning — as well as natural language processing (NLP) and large language models.

At the top of the list, Ms Jaffee-Prado’s team are pulling all their unstructured data around sales and trading activity communications, structuring it, and tying it to their transaction data. Part of this project consists of working closely with Bloomberg to develop a proof of concept using the vendor’s NLP chatbot application programming interfaces.

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Liz Lumley is deputy editor at The Banker. She is a global specialist commentator on global financial technology or “fintech”. She has spent 30 years working in the financial technology space, most recently as director at VC Innovations and architect of the Fintech Talents Festival, managing director at Startupbootcamp FinTech London and an editor at financial services and technology newswire, Finextra. She was named Journalist of the Year for Technology and Digital Finance at State Street’s UK Press Awards for 2022.
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