Research

Developing Deep B2B Technologies for Financial Sector

Our research direction is aligned with strategic priorities in Singapore and Asia. The research will focus on developing a digital infrastructure to lend support to Singapore's B2B digital finance development and creating a hub for the FinTech research community in Asia. Through research, AIDF will generate innovative FinTech solutions to real-world challenges and help translate them into market-ready products and services. Through foundational and inter-disciplinary applied research, AIDF will help to build strong capabilities in digital finance, while its impact will spread throughout Asia and beyond.

We will partner with other NUS research institutes and centres that work in adjacent disciplines and technologies which are critical to enabling, enhancing, and extending the impact of FinTech applications, especially those in the NUS Smart Nation Research Cluster. We will also pursue win-win research collaborations with other academic institutions and industrial organizations in Singapore, Asia and beyond.

“AIDF will help build strong FinTech research capabilities in Singapore.”

Professor Low Teck Seng, NRF Chief Executive Officer

AIDF will pursue foundational and inter-disciplinary research covering fundamental digital infrastructure, performance optimisation of business processes, and advanced application development research on cyber, fraud and anti-money laundering challenges.

AIDF research will centre on developing deep and long-standing data analytical capabilities in FinTech that enable business-to-business (B2B) FinTech innovations to tackle real-world challenges for the financial services sector in Asia. The research will focus on developing a digital infrastructure to lend support to Singapore’s digital finance development, particularly in the B2B domain.

“NUS thought leadership in digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, and data science makes us perfectly positioned to address the challenges of the digital economy in Singapore and other parts of the world.”

Professor Tan Eng Chye, NUS President