Regulators can help drive innovation says FINRA’s Haimera Workie

Haimera Workie is Head of Financial Innovation and Senior Director at FINRA, where he leads the Office of Financial Innovation. He sets out how regulators can encourage and monitor emerging innovation.

The financial services industry has often been an early adopter of cutting-edge technology, and today there is almost no part of the trading landscape that remains untouched by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

After years of hype, machine learning solutions are finally helping brokers to reimagine the way they interact with their

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