• Multi-year innovation partnership aims to accelerate the use of AI to improve financial services.
• Companies developing a range of applications, including intelligent avatars, speech AI, and fraud detection.
• Deutsche Bank and NVIDIA to develop applications to improve risk management, boost efficiency and enhance customer service using NVIDIA AI Enterprise software.
• Partnership will expand the bank’s internal AI centre of excellence to develop, foster and promote Explainable and Responsible AI in the financial services industry.
Deutsche Bank today announced a multi-year innovation partnership with NVIDIA to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the financial services sector.
Combining Deutsche Bank’s financial industry expertise with NVIDIA’s leadership in AI and accelerated computing will hasten the development of a broad range of regulatory-compliant AI-powered services. The partnership will support Deutsche Bank’s cloud transformation journey, for example by using AI and ML to simplify and accelerate cloud migration decisions.
“AI, ML and data will be a game changer in banking, and our partnership with NVIDIA is further evidence that we are committed to redefining what is possible for our clients,” said Christian Sewing, CEO Deutsche Bank.
“This partnership is a significant step forward in our AI and ML ambitions. It will help us take a leading position in the usage of these technologies in financial services,” added Bernd Leukert, Deutsche Bank’s Management Board Member responsible for Technology, Data and Innovation.
“Accelerated computing and AI are at a tipping point, and we’re bringing them to the world’s enterprises through the cloud,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO NVIDIA. “Every aspect of future business will be supercharged with insight and intelligence running at the speed of light. Together with Deutsche Bank, we are modernizing and reimagining the way financial services are operated and delivered.”
The collaboration follows months of exploratory work in which the companies tested a number of potential use cases, with a focus on three in particular: risk model development, high-performance computing, and the creation of a branded virtual avatar.
Next-generation risk management through accelerated compute
Accelerated computing enables traders to manage risk and run more scenarios faster and at scale while also improving energy efficiency. Supported by NVIDIA’s AI, ML and accelerated computing knowledge, the partnership will enrich Deutsche Bank’s leadership in risk management, improve efficiency and enhance customer service.
To enable this work, Deutsche Bank plans to leverage NVIDIA AI Enterprise, an end-to-end software suite for streamlining AI development and deployment that can run in the cloud or in the data centre. With this flexibility, Deutsche Bank’s AI developers, data scientists and IT professionals will be able to run NVIDIA AI workflows on-premises as well as on Google Cloud, Deutsche Bank’s public cloud provider.
Redefining customer service with interactive avatars
Deutsche Bank is working to develop next-generation user experiences with NVIDIA Omniverse Enterprise, an open computing platform for building and operating metaverse applications, and AI models and services that make it easier to build and customize lifelike virtual assistants and digital humans.
With NVIDIA Omniverse, the bank’s teams have developed an early concept of a 3D virtual avatar aimed at helping employees navigate internal systems and respond to HR-related questions. Future use cases will explore immersive experiences with banking clients.
Deriving insights out of unstructured data
Extracting key information from unstructured data has long been a challenge for organizations, especially those in financial services. Existing large language models do not perform well on financial texts. Deutsche Bank and NVIDIA are testing a collection of large language models called Financial Transformers. These will run AI and ML models and achieve outcomes such as early warning signs on the counterparty of a financial transaction, faster data retrieval and identifying data-quality issues.
The innovation partnership is an integral part of Deutsche Bank’s ongoing technology transformation. Deutsche Bank will expand an internal AI centre of excellence, accelerated through the partnership, to support the experimentation and development of AI and ML services and professional skills development. The centre will also develop, foster and promote explainable and responsible AI to expand the understanding of model predictions in financial services applications, and exploration in the areas of AI and accelerated computing.
About Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank is a leading multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany. It is one of the world’s largest banks, serving over 17 million customers in more than 70 countries. Deutsche Bank offers a wide range of services to its customers, including corporate banking, investment banking, asset management, private banking, and retail banking. It also offers customers a range of innovative products and services, such as online banking, mobile banking, and digital payment solutions. With its global presence, Deutsche Bank is well–positioned to help customers achieve their financial goals.
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA is one of the world‘s leading technology companies, specializing in the development of graphics processing units (GPUs) for gaming, professional visualization, data science, and artificial intelligence (AI). Founded in 1993, NVIDIA has revolutionized the gaming industry with its powerful and reliable GPUs, which are used in a variety of gaming platforms, ranging from PCs and consoles to virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). NVIDIA also produces a line of graphics cards that are designed for use in AI, data science, and professional visualization applications. They have also developed a range of software solutions for AI and data science, including the NVIDIA AI Platform, which is a suite of tools for developers, researchers, and data scientists. With its innovative products, NVIDIA continues to shape the future of gaming and AI.
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