CASE STUDY FIVE:
Edinburgh University:
At the cutting edge of R&D
As a world-leading research-intensive University, the University of Edinburgh is here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Our Edinburgh Futures Institute is home to several centres and hubs dedicated financial services & fintech activities across the University. We are focussed on innovation – with particular focus on climate change risk and opportunities, harnessing AI for good and improving public health and wellbeing, including financial.
Our Edinburgh Centre for Financial Innovations brings together academic expertise across variety of disciplines to support the sector by collaborating on research and development projects, training the next generation of talent for the sector, and helping upskill professionals in the sector via executive education on such topics as fintech, quantum computing, data ethics, and climate change & sustainability.
The Smart Data Foundry helps us unlock the power of financial data utilising cutting edge data infrastructure and capabilities. We are a founding partner of Fintech Scotland and our sector partners include large financial services organisations such as Baillie Gifford, Legal & General, Aegon, Franklin Templeton, SMEs such as Direct ID, and start-ups such as Predictiva.
We collaborate with large financial organisations through long-term challenge-led industry-research partnerships, including the Centre for Investing Innovation with abrdn, the global asset managers, and the Centre for Purpose Driven Innovation in Banking with NatWest Group.
The Centre for Purpose-Driven Innovation in Banking, with NatWest Group, will combine business insights with research, data and social science expertise to co-create data-driven, novel solutions for the future of banking. This will improve how data is used to benefit bank customers, students, researchers and policy makers.
Sir Peter Mathieson
Principal, University of Edinburgh
