{"id":15355,"date":"2020-09-28T08:51:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T08:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/?p=15355"},"modified":"2020-09-28T08:51:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T08:51:07","slug":"data-scientists-the-new-investment-bankers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/data-scientists-the-new-investment-bankers\/","title":{"rendered":"Data scientists: the new investment bankers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data scientists operate by combining coding, statistics and business ideas to develop predictive models for decision-makers, while investment bankers generate investment ideas that are supported by financial models. With the abundance of data now available and the tools to efficiently and effectively process and analyze it, data scientists are quickly emerging as the new, better investment bankers. As data science continues to mature and analytical infrastructure improves, this trend is only likely to accelerate. This is especially true as tech companies such as Apply and Facebook continue to march confidently into the financial services sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"rpbt_shortcode\">\n\n<div id='rpbt-related-gallery-1' class='gallery related-gallery related-galleryid-15355 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='BFC FinTech Monitor 8th \u2013 15th May'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/bfc-fintech-monitor-8th-15th-may\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/digest_cover-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-14924\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-14924'>\n\t\t\t\tBFC FinTech Monitor 8th \u2013 15th May\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='New Zealand on the path to open banking'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/new-zealand-on-the-path-to-open-banking\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/new-zealand-on-the-path-to-open-banking-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-12854\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-12854'>\n\t\t\t\tNew Zealand on the path to open banking\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item' role='group' aria-label='Startups and London in the wake of Brexit'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/startups-and-london-in-the-wake-of-brexit\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/startups-and-london-in-the-wake-of-brexit-e1549898335319-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"rpbt-related-gallery-1-12254\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='rpbt-related-gallery-1-12254'>\n\t\t\t\tStartups and London in the wake of Brexit\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data scientists operate by combining coding, statistics and business ideas to develop predictive models for decision-makers, while investment bankers generate investment ideas that are supported by financial models. With the abundance of data now available and the tools to efficiently and effectively process and analyze it, data scientists are quickly emerging as the new, better &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15357,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15355\/revisions\/15357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bulletins.bfconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}