Algorithms are extremely clever at accurately processing huge quantities of information. But a recent problem with a bank loan is a disturbing look behind the curtain. Last week I applied for a ...

Deutsche Bank’s Autobahn® Equity business, within its Global Markets division, announced today the global availability of an algorithm based on Deutsche Bank’s proprietary “Stealth” strategy, which ...

The trade in financial instruments has long been a global marketplace, operating round the clock. But increasingly, market continuity is maintained not only by human intervention, but also by ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Deutsche Bank has unveiled a new equity trading algorithm that mimics high-speed market-making strategies, as ...

A program spearheaded by the World Bank that uses algorithmic decision-making to means-test poverty relief money is failing the very people it’s intended to protect, according to a new report by Human ...

An algorithm, without going into technological gobbledegook, is a set of rules to be followed in calculations, or for that matter solving other problematic operations, often used to execute a sequence ...

An automated cash transfer program in Jordan developed with significant financing from the World Bank is undermined by errors, discriminatory policies, and stereotypes about poverty. Many people in ...

The New York banking regulator is investigating if Deutsche Bank and Barclays Plc used algorithms on their trading platforms to manipulate foreign exchange rates, a source with direct knowledge of the ...

Simply sign up to the Retail & Consumer industry myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Dom Hall used to work as a trader at an electronic market maker. Today the maths graduate applies his ...