Professors Natalia Nolde and Harry Joe (UBC-V Statistics) and John Braun (UBC-O Statistics) have received funding to help Scotiabank in its efforts to advance financial modelling to help manage risks and protect customers. You can read more about the $2,000,000 Scotiabank has provided UBC as part of its Scotiabank Cybersecurity and Risk Analytics Initiative here: https://news.ubc.ca/2017/03/13/scotiabank-funds-2-million-cybersecurity-and-financial-data-initiative-at-ubc/, and you can read an interview with Natalia Nolde here: https://science.ubc.ca/news/risky-business.
Congratulations, Natalia, Harry, and John!
June 8, 2017