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Data Snack: Opportunities in generating synthetic financial data

  • Collecting, organizing and sharing data can be a costly and risky process.
  • FIs and Big Tech are looking into generating 'synthetic data'. Which mimics real data but removes the risk of privacy breaches occurring due to exposure of Personally Identifiable Information.
Rabab Ahsan | June 16, 2022
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