Category: Recommended Reads

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One of the prominent potential applications for federated machine learning is in detecting financial crime risks across multiple institutions which cannot share data with each other due to confidentiality and other regulatory restrictions. This article delves into the recent growth of financial crime in congruence with failing financial crime compliance and monitoring systems. The author describes how privacy enhancing technologies such as federated machine learning could help to overcome information sharing restrictions in relation to financial crime compliance and monitoring.

Alon Kaufman, ABA Banking Journal

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This survey delves into challenges of federated machine learning beyond potential security issues that could affect adoption in industries like financial services. For example, the authors consider how asymmetric data and communications systems might make building networks between heterogenous institutions difficult and increase the costs related to uploading and downloading models or portions of models. These considerations may be especially important in underserved and emerging markets.

Tian Li et al.

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This paper describes the efforts of a team of researchers to develop a federated AML model for the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s Global Anti-Money-Laundering and Financial Crime Tech sprint. The model was trained on data from several financial institutions and outperformed a conventional AML model in detecting potentially suspicious activity by 20%.

Toyotaro Suzumura et al.

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This article examines alternative fairness metrics from conceptual and normative perspectives with particular attention paid to predictive parity and error rate ratios. The article also questions the common view that anti-discrimination law prevents model developers from using race, gender, or other protected characteristics to improve the fairness and accuracy of the algorithms that they design.

Deborah Hellman, University of Virginia Law Review

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This paper maps twenty definitions of fairness for algorithmic classification problems, explains the rationale for each definition, and applies them in the context of a single case study. This analysis demonstrates that the same fact pattern can be considered fair or unfair depending on the definition being applied.

Sahil Verma and Julia Robin, ACM/IEEE International Workshop on Software Fairness

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Historian Jill Lepore tells the story of the Simulmatics Corporation as a case study in the Cold War origins of data science and of the technological, market, and political debates that shape our “data-mad” times. This company’s efforts throughout the 1960s to build a business on the power of prediction raises important questions about how its work affected democratic institutions, personal behavior, and conceptions of privacy.

Jill Lepore, Liveright Publishing