Finance
Ideas and insights about finance from MIT Sloan.
4 human financial services activities that AI can’t do
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Artificial intelligence improves efficiency in risk management and compliance, but humans are still best for customer-facing tasks, a new study finds.
This Fintech Sandbox co-founder champions free data for startups
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Sarah Biller builds tech organizations ready for a “permissionless, frictionless, contactless” financial services sector.
4 ways that AI and tech are reshaping finance
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Generative AI and financial data are opening up the digital economy to more consumers and small businesses, but crypto concerns remain.
To withstand credit market shocks, diversify your company’s bonds
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Having access to a wider variety of institutional investors allows companies to better maintain access to capital, research shows.
Finance taps generative AI to streamline accounting, hiring tasks
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In finance, AI can improve efficiency and help executives make strategic decisions, but proper governance is a must.
3 ways to improve the mortgage market
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These approaches could make mortgages more affordable and more equitable for U.S. homebuyers.
The top 10 MIT Sloan articles of 2024
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Once again, AI was everywhere. But research about federal spending leads the list.
Wealthier workers benefit most from retirement savings ‘nudges’
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When employers hold back wages for retirement savings, younger consumers and less-wealthy people cut their spending. Wealthier individuals tap their deposit accounts.
Black bankruptcy filers more likely to be denied debt relief
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Bankruptcy is designed to give distressed Americans a fresh financial start, but new research shows that Black filers are more likely to have their cases dismissed than whites filers.
Federal spending was responsible for the 2022 spike in inflation
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Many experts and observers blamed 2022’s high inflation on the pandemic’s backlogged supply chain. New research shows that assessment is inaccurate.