3 Questions: Kestra Financial’s CTO on FinTech - Barron's
3 Questions: Kestra Financial’s CTO on FinTech - Barron's |
- 3 Questions: Kestra Financial’s CTO on FinTech - Barron's
- July 31st Playbook - PoliticsPA
- Remember... Dungeon Keeper 2? - NAG
| 3 Questions: Kestra Financial’s CTO on FinTech - Barron's Posted: 31 Jul 2019 10:53 AM PDT  1. What's the biggest unmet fintech need for advisors? While I applaud that all the major vendors seem to be focusing on more integrated advisor and investor experiences, far too many of them are solving to that by rushing to the same unrealistic spot. They all want to be your "portal" or your "one stop shop." What we need instead are industry standards for the exchange of complex data (like financial plans, proposals, and performance data) so that it isn't only easier to integrate different best-of-breed systems together, but it's easier for advisors to move with confidence between different platforms as their needs and preferences change. That would also unlock a lot of healthy competitive innovation. Newsletter Sign-up2. What's the best use of AI for advisors that you've seen so far? Natural language processing (NLP) is already in limited use and is set to explode as the costs of operation and configuration go down and accuracy goes up. NLP is the ability for a machine to not only scan for keywords but to actually parse and "understand" the text that it is reading. This has the potential to not only transform compliance and surveillance solutions, but also anti-fraud measures and customer sentiment analysis and customer support. It could be a real force multiplier for independent advisors, rather than something only very large companies can deploy. 3. What "in the oven" innovation are you particularly intrigued by? Voice analysis and voice command integration will become really interesting in the next few years. With analysis, voice prints could make it far easier for advisors and their staff to validate exactly who they're talking to over the phone. The current mechanisms, like cel phone-based dual factor or knowledge-based questions, can both be cumbersome and aren't easily integrated to all communication channels. That invites apathy right where you don't want it. With voice command (think Alexa/Cortana/Siri integration), even though most of what I've seen so far strikes me more as a proof-of-concept (and a cybersecurity risk) than anything practically useful, the sophistication will only grow. And I suspect it will eventually become a highly valued part of the client experience. Kevin Witt leads the Kestra Financial team that is responsible for the design, development, and implementation of a wide portfolio of applications used by employees at the Kestra Financial home office and advisors in the field.  |
| July 31st Playbook - PoliticsPA Posted: 31 Jul 2019 06:03 AM PDT
PAGOP Appoints Mike Baker As Treasurer: The former Southwest PAGOP Caucus Chair will fill the role recently held by D. Raja, who was elected to the position in 2017. Liberal Group Dings Fitzpatrick, Perry over Chao: The television ads running in the Philadelphia and Harrisburg markets pressure both GOP Congressmen serving on the House Transportation Committee to investigate Sec. Elaine Chao. Murphy Endorses Buttigieg for President: The former Bucks County Congressman and under secretary of the U.S. Army pointed to Buttigieg's military service plus his vision of offering a new generation of leadership as the reason he is supporting his bid for the White House. Harrisburg & DC Philadelphia SEPA Pittsburgh SWPA NEPA South Central Lehigh Valley North by Northwest Opinion  |
| Remember... Dungeon Keeper 2? - NAG Posted: 31 Jul 2019 06:24 AM PDT Remember… is a series of retrospectives, some from our magazine archives, and others from our more recent nostalgia dreams. It's 1999, Bullfrog Productions still exists, everyone keeps going on about Y2K, and you're keeping the volume low so the orgasmic wailings of your Dark Mistresses don't raise any awkward questions from your mother – welcome to Dungeon Keeper 2. At a time when the vast majority of games were about being the hero, the Dungeon Keeper games gave you the opportunity to side with evil. Dungeon Keeper 2 is much the same as its predecessor, but better because it has a sense of humour and is fully 3D (!!).
Your creatures rate you as their all-time favourite keeper.This sinister strategy game sees you as the resident evil overlord of a subterranean dungeon. The Mentor guides you through the process of mastering the art of dungeon keeping with a pleasantly purring register that is a masterwork of memorable voice acting. Play through the increasingly challenging campaign, if you want a little bit of plot about slaughtering heroes for their portal gems, but everyone knows the My Pet Dungeon sandbox is where it's at. Whatever way you play, you'll be digging out a masterfully ill-planned dungeon, your treasury/training room/casino will never be big enough, and some creature will always be unhappy about not being paid or not having a lair despite the fact that both those things are readily available. There will also be chickens, like, everywhere. Just keep your creatures happy and defend your Dungeon Heart from the filthy humans. You have an excess of Mistresses. There's a word for keepers like you.Whoever gave this a 12-and-up age restriction probably never got to the point where they could build torture chambers that attract the Dark Mistress creatures, which make use of the torture equipment for their own… pleasure. Yes, their ecstatic exaltations are exactly as unsettling now as they were 20 years ago. Also, they gain happiness when you spank them. Do with that information what you will, Keeper. Micro-piglets stalk your dungeon – beware.Sadly, we never got an official Dungeon Keeper 3, due to Bullfrog being absorbed by EA and everyone moving on to other projects, like Harry Potter. EA did attempt a free-to-play "reboot" in 2014, but I don't want to talk about it. You can find an off-brand version in Brightrock Games' War for the Overworld (they even got Richard Ridings back to do the Mentor's voice) and that's about as close as you're going to get. GET IT ON GOG.COM!
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