Intact : Extraction et vérification de faits

L’un des enjeux majeurs dans le domaine de l’assurance est la fraude. Une étude américaine proposait il y a quelques années que celle-ci représentait environ 10% de chaque dollar que paie une compagnie d’assurance en dédommagement. L’incidence de la fraude est importante pour Intact sur ses résultats financiers, mais également pour l’ensemble de ses clients, […]

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Développer une stratégie de commercialisation d’une fintech qui rend plus accessible des subventions pour les personnes handicapées

Terry vise a aider les personnes vivant avec un handicap à bénéficier des subventions disponible avec le régime enregistré d’épargne-invalidité (REEI). Avec notre technologie, nous facilitons le processus d’ouverture ce régime canadien. Ce régime donne plus de 90 000$ de subvention du gouvernement mais il est estimé que seulement 30% des Canadiens admissible en bénéficient. […]

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Good News Ventures Summer Application 2022

GNV is seeking an intern to assist with a project to improve and document the venture capital investment process. This includes outbound deal flow sourcing of early stage technology startups, evaluation of startups, due diligence and supporting investees. Furthermore, some supporting duties related to the investment process such as outreach communications within the venture capital […]

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Using VHF telemetry to inform nest-site-selection of western painted turtle (Chrysemys picta bellii) in the Kootenay region of British Columbia

The purpose of this project is to study the behaviour of western painted turtles during the nesting season. These species are currently in decline in British Columbia due to urbanization and a loss of nesting habitat. In recent years, the construction of man-made nesting beaches has been widely used in an effort to help this […]

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Forex data gathering and analysis acceleration and trend prediction

A prototype Forex currency trading system has demonstrated a proof of concept on a static data set. The current project proposes to implement the trading system for real-time applications using the tools of predictive analysis, As data arrives in the trading system it will automatically update the buy/sell recommendations with estimates of probability of success. […]

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An Application of Machine Learning to Mortgage Prepayment Modeling

The business partner is interested in expanding its understanding of prepayment. Specifically the goal is to predict prepayment risk for mortgages as a function of mortgagors’ characteristics (including data from previous interactions with the bank), and the local economy. In recent years, with the improvement in efficient computing and data storage, the relying on a […]

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L’institutionnalisation de l’éthique de l’IA en organisation : une étude de cas

Le projet vise à comprendre comment les employés d’une organisation du secteur des finances et des assurances font sens des enjeux éthiques reliés à la valorisation des données, entre autres par les techniques d’intelligence artificielle et à émettre des recommandations sur la façon d’intégrer ces enjeux à l’intérieur de l’organisation. La méthodologie s’appuie sur des […]

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Developing a marketing strategy to drive user adoption of financial literacy app

At Walletifai, we have spent the past couple of years building the smartest personal financial solution that helps Millenials and Gen Z overcome their financial anxiety and make financial decisions with confidence. Who we are: We are building a smart personal financial coach and assistant mobile app that helps Millennials and Gen Z understand their […]

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Risk-factor-based Portfolio Optimization

Portfolio managers have generally favoured factor models to interpret and arbitrage abnormal alpha. Duncombe and Kay (2018) proposed an analysis, Two Sigma Factor Lens, to address these issues. In addition to these problems, another challenge is how to dynamically incorporate market upturns and downturns into asset allocation under a multi-factor model, which has attracted a […]

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Ideation in the company creation process

Amplitude Ventures mission is centered around creating, growing and accelerating companies based on Canadian innovative research. Our goal with this project is to continue developing our company creation process. We will identify innovative scientific concepts that have the potential to evolve into IP and constitute a company in the future with the goal of designing […]

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