Featuring Machine Learning experts from Cornell, Citi, and more…

***For those of you who missed Tuesday night’s seminar and wish to see Dr. Miquel Noguer i Alonso’s presentation, the recording is now available.

You and your colleagues are invited to attend the Cornell – Citi Financial Data Science Seminars at the Bloomberg Center at Cornell Tech, Room 061/071. Through the talks this semester, we are excited to collaborate with Citi in highlighting machine learning applications in finance.

2 West Loop Road
New York, NY 10044

All seminars are from 6:10 pm to 7:25 pm. This seminar will NOT be recorded.

Seminars are free. However, registration is required for NYC attendees as seating is limited.

Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Time: 6:10pm – 7:25pm
Speaker: Puneet Singhvi | Citi
Title: “What’s Happening with Blockchain in Financial Markets?”

Abstract

Over the past few years, the financial industry has been actively exploring blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) to assess their impact in various use-cases, identify benefits, and separate the hype from reality. Citi has been an active participant and strategic investor in blockchain initiatives across the ecosystem for nearly 5 years now.

In this presentation, we will discuss real use-cases in active implementation across the financial ecosystem and review key drivers for adoption. These emerging use-cases span product lines and geographies – from the digitization of post-trade activities to transformed market exchanges, and from digitized securities to cash-on-chain models, from collateral mobility to trade finance – across North America, Europe, and Asia. We will discuss areas with tangible benefits, and what have been learnings from failed initiatives. We will also review key emerging issues with the technology and potential areas of opportunity going forward.

Speaker Bio

Puneet is Managing Director and Financial Markets Infrastructure (FMI) head for Citi Institutional Client Group. He is responsible for relationship and key initiatives with FMIs such as Exchanges, Payment Systems, Clearing Houses, and Settlement venues. He also leads Blockchain/DLT and Digital Assets initiatives for the Markets and Securities Services business working actively with FMIs, FinTechs and institutional clients on identifying and delivering solutions.

Puneet has worked at Citi across the developed and emerging markets in various management roles within Citi Markets & Securities Services and Citi Trade & Transaction Services businesses. His roles included leading Citi Global Clearing Payments Product, Citi Foreign Exchange & Derivative Clearing Product Management, Trade Finance and Asset Backed Finance.

He has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering and has completed his post-graduation in management from the Indian Institute of Management.

We hope to see you there!

The Cornell-Citi Team

Directions to CFEM & Citi @CornellTech on Roosevelt Island: Take the Tram or the F train to Roosevelt Island; walk to the left along the East River until you see a modern, bronze building, which is the Bloomberg Center. Check in at the front desk and go downstairs to the basement, where Room 061/071 will be straight ahead on your left.

**Please excuse any duplication of this announcement

Past CFEM Events

September 24, 2019
Speaker: Dr. Miquel Noguer I Alonso I Artificial Intelligence Finance Institute

Title: “Latest Developments in Deep Learning in Finance”

November 5, 2019
Speaker: Adam Grealish (Betterment)
Title: TBD

November 12, 2019
Quant Finance Forum