Acknowledgements

After the global book launch events of The FinTech Book, The WealthTech Book and The InsurTech Book, we met thousands of FinTech entrepreneurs, investors and financial services and technology professionals who all loved the books and wanted to learn more how artificial intelligence and machine learning will impact the financial services sector and our world overall.

We came up with the idea for The AI Book and spoke to our FinTech friends globally. Entrepreneurs across all continents were eager to share their powerful insights. They wanted to explain how AI is poised to disrupt lives, businesses, whole economies and even the geopolitical world order and of course, how it will improve the world of finance. FinTech investors, “intrapreneurs”, innovation leaders at leading financial and technology institutions and thought leaders were keen to describe their embrace of the data and AI revolution.

The global effort of crowdsourcing such insights was born with The FinTech Book which became a global bestseller across 107 countries in 10 languages. We continued this success with The WealthTech Book, The InsurTech Book and The PayTech Book. We hope that with The AI Book we can satisfy the appetite for knowledge and insights about the future of artificial intelligence applied to the financial services sector.

We are aware that this would not have been possible without the global FINTECH Circle community and our own personal networks. We are very grateful to more than 130,000 members of FINTECH Circle for joining us daily across our website www.FINTECHCircle.com, our Twitter accounts and our LinkedIn group. Without the public support and engagement of our global FinTech and AI communities this book would not have been possible.

The authors you will read about have been chosen by our global ecosystem purely on merit; thus, no matter how big or small their organization, no matter in which country they work, no matter if they were well known or still undiscovered, everybody had the same chance to apply and be part of The AI Book. We are proud of that, as we believe that artificial intelligence will drive the world of finance. The global AI community is made up of the smartest, most innovative and nicest people we know. Thank you for being part of our journey. It is difficult to name you all here, but you are all listed in the directory at the end of this book.

Our publisher Wiley has been a great partner for The FinTech Book Series and we are delighted that Wiley will again publish The AI Book in paperback and e-book formats globally. A special thanks goes to our fantastic editor Gemma Valler. Thanks to you and your team – we could not have done it without your amazing support!

We look forward to hearing from you. Please visit our website https://fintechcircle.com/ai-book/ for additional bonus content from our global AI community! Please send us your comments on The AI Book and let us know how you wish to be engaged by dropping us a line at info@FINTECHCircle.com

Susanne Chishti Ivana Bartoletti
Twitter: @SusanneChishti Twitter: @IvanaBartoletti
Anne Leslie Shán M. Millie
Twitter: @AnneLes1ie Twitter: @SMMBrightBlueH