16 December 2025

CRC’s Winter 'Let’s Talk About' Village Hall brought together leading academics and industry practitioners for a thoughtful discussion on the opportunities and challenges of integrating artificial intelligence into financial services.

The event featured expert contributions from:

  • Professor Michael Rovatsos, Dean of Research and Innovation at the College of Science and Engineering and Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
  • Dr Maria Kalantzaki, Senior Validation Manager in Novel Financial & Non-Financial Risk at Virgin Money
  • Roberto Wolf, Principal of AI Innovation at Optima Partners
  • Professor Alexandra Birch, Chair of Multilingual Natural Language Processing in the Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, and co-founder and Chief Scientist of Aveni.ai
  • Soner Candan, Lead Data & AI Scientist at Lloyds Banking Group

The event was moderated by Professor Galina Andreeva, Director of the Credit Research Centre.

We are pleased to share slides from a selection of speakers with our global community:

We look forward to welcoming participants to upcoming CRC events.