A Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending platform allows small businesses to obtain working capital funds through an online system, where individuals can anonymously pool together funds for investment. Instead of relying on a third-party website for crowdfunding (such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo), we propose a decentralized platform for P2P. Unlike traditional P2P lending which is usually done […]

Insurance companies collect huge volumes of text on a daily basis and through multiple channels, which can be used for lots of different analyses, including identifying “cause of death”. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of an insurance company’s need to understand the facts and circumstances surrounding an insured individual’s death. These facts, including […]

This project is about synthesizing data using generative adversarial network (GAN). Unlike conventional studies which use anonymization techniques for removing private information of individuals, we use variants of GAN architectures for crafting new records contextually similar to real records in the legitimate dataset. We plan to run exploratory experiments on public datasets to provide enough […]

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for loss allowances are changing, and financial institutions are proactively adapting existing methodologies and developing new ones to remain compliant. The main ingredient in the myriad of evaluations that banks are required to perform for compliance is risk assessment. The first goal of this research project is to review best […]

West Central Women’s Resource Centre: New Journey Housing, Social Media Designer

Canadian Credit Union Association (CCUA) is aiming to deliver the best service and resources to its credit union members in Canada. However, the value of its services sometimes may not be fully aware of or understood by the members, especially during this pandemic situation when they are overwhelmed by various tasks on hand. Therefore, the […]

Angel investors are uniquely positioned to bring transformative and positive change in areas that will impact Canada’s ability to scale innovative companies that rise to the global stage. Angels are community-based investors that take a “leap of faith” on entrepreneurs before institutional investors, such as venture capital funds. To grow and scale, entrepreneurs need angels. […]

As a sector-agnostic investment bank, Gravitas Securities is a major provider of early-stage capital to companies. An intern helps directly with the origination and execution of key transactions and provides early-stage capital to these companies as they scale and become the dominant players in their space. At Gravitas Securities, we are largely focused on the […]

As a sector-agnostic investment bank, Gravitas Securities is a major provider of early-stage capital to companies. The intern will be asked to produce a final deliverable in PowerPoint format that will be presented to the Gravitas Securities team. This final deliverable will involve a PowerPoint presentation over 25 minutes where the intern will speak about […]

The intern will work under PredictNow.ai’s business team to assist thier existing inbound sales and marketing campaign. The intern will also be asked to conduct an outbound sales campaign to generate sales calls for the team, and will participate in a secondary role in the calls. The role will also be tasked with curating marketing […]

Institutions recommend financial products and instruments from different brokers to their customers. The institutions are required to ensure that the trades serve their customer interests. The existing rule-based system results in high false positives. The recommendations that are identified as positives are scrutinized by financial analysts, which is costly and inefficient. The project will enhance […]

Anticipated project activities would include setting up a strategy for Thought Leadership pieces, writing articles on trends in the Food & Beverage Industry, some editing and on-going updates to our website, social media posts (i.e. LinkedIn, Twitter) and launching all the marketing materials around securing new lines of business (designing brochures/pitch decks, perfecting generic email […]