John Collins

John Collins helps clients to deploy AI at scale to solve their business problems, digitalise their businesses, increase automation, manage risks, and reduce costs. Typically, the AI that John delivers involves deep learning neural networks, generative adversarial networks, reinforcement learning, and natural language processing, along with supporting Python ecosystems, data pipelines, predictive analytics, and UI.

John is an expert in risk management, including market, credit, liquidity, operational, cyber, and compliance risks. He has extensive capital markets experience across fixed income, foreign exchange, equities, delta one, and OTC derivatives. He has directed large transformation programs in global financial institutions covering trading and portfolio management, market and credit risk, enterprise data architecture, and regulatory transformation.

John holds a PhD Finance (Financial Mathematics and Econometrics) from EDHEC Business School. He collaborates in research projects and publishes papers with academic colleagues. His research interests include the use of DL for analysis of high frequency financial time series and comparisons of DL to other complex non-linear state space models.