Author Lexi Birch

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Dr Lexi Birch is co-founder of Scottish Regtech business Aveni – the AI-powered Natural Language Processing platform making big waves in the finance and regulation markets. Lexi is an internationally recognised expert in Natural Language Processing, and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She is working with the team at Aveni to drive necessary revolution in risk assessment and vulnerability recognition to address data-first demands of new compliance – particularly in relation to the new Consumer Duty requirements from the FCA. Innovation in thinking, technological advances and regulatory compliance requirements are changing the way the financial services sector operates and the reality of AI and NLP advances are being recognised and must be embraced.