As firms demand more data to find alpha, better manage risk, and more efficiently handle regulatory needs, they are having to turn to artificially-intelligent tools, namely, algorithms that incorporate the disciplines of machine learning and natural language processing.

Below are some examples as to how banks, asset managers, exchanges, regulators and vendors are using ML and NLP. While this is not an exhaustive list of stories we wrote about AI in 2021, we hope it provides a good snapshot of