Problem Statement 1: Ethical Use of AI in Banking
Objective
Develop ethical AI systems in banking, particularly for key areas like credit scoring, fraud detection, and personalized financial services, ensuring fairness and mitigating discrepancies among customers.
Description
The aim is to build a solution that enhances transparency, addresses biases, and ensures AI-driven decisions are ethical and inclusive. Achieving this will promote fairness in banking services, foster customer trust, and improve financial well-being for all.
Tasks
- Bias Detection & Mitigation: Design a tool that detects, measures, and reduces biases in AI systems, providing actionable solutions to ensure fairness.
- Explainable AI: Develop an AI model that offers clear, transparent justifications for every decision, allowing customers to understand the rationale and raise concerns about fairness.
- Personalized Financial Advice: Create a platform that delivers tailored financial recommendations, prioritizing the customers’ best interests.
Resources
- Use any code development tool of your choice.
Problem Statement 2: Combining DeFi (Decentralized Finance) with CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies): Control, Monitoring, and Compliance.
Task
- Investigate the feasibility and challenges of integrating both (decentralized nature of DeFi with the centralized, government-backed control of CBDCs.)
- The focus is on how to ensure effective monitoring, regulatory compliance, and transaction traceability while retaining key benefits from both systems.
Description
- The integration of DeFi and CBDCs presents a significant opportunity but also introduces complex challenges around control, monitoring, and compliance.
- DeFi is built around decentralization, allowing users to engage in financial activities such as lending, borrowing, and trading without intermediaries or central oversight. It is autonomous, open, and permissionless, which makes monitoring or enforcing regulatory compliance difficult.
- CBDCs, on the other hand, are centralized, government-issued digital currencies that allow central banks to trace and monitor every transaction, ensuring regulatory oversight, security, and compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) requirements.
The main challenge arises in reconciling these two vastly different systems. CBDCs’ centralized control offers regulatory benefits like transaction monitoring and intervention, but this contradicts DeFi’s ethos of decentralization and autonomy. Thus, a hybrid system would need to answer several key questions:
- Who would control or monitor transactions in such a system?
- How could privacy concerns in DeFi be balanced with the need for traceability in CBDCs?
- How can regulatory compliance be enforced without undermining the decentralization principles of DeFi?
- What technical mechanisms can be developed to allow CBDCs to operate in DeFi while maintaining their regulatory properties?
A solution must balance the traceability and regulatory control of CBDCs with the decentralized, automated, and permissionless nature of DeFi. Possible approaches could include implementing compliance layers, programmable CBDCs with built-in monitoring capabilities, or hybrid governance models that allow for oversight without undermining the decentralized aspects of DeFi.
Resources
- Design an integrated model for both DeFi and CDBC
- Consider all the Regulatory frameworks for AML/KYC in digital currencies.
- Use any code development tool of your choice.
Problem Statement 3: Data Security in Digital wallet (Fin Tech)
Task
- Design and develop a wallet system.
- Secure the wallet from cyber-attacks.
- Design cyber-attacks on digital wallets and secure it from each attack.
- Try to implement an new authentication system other than OTP, Captcha , email OTP, 2FA.
Description
In today's fast-paced financial landscape, the demand for faster payment systems is more critical than ever. Digital wallets have emerged as a highly promising solution, especially with the growing popularity of cryptocurrency trading. As more traders and consumers turn to digital wallets for their transactions, the need for a secure and efficient platform becomes paramount.
Resources