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Ideas that move Fidelity forward.

The Fidelity Center for Applied Technology^SM, or FCAT^SM, is a catalyst for breakthrough achievements in research and tech. We assess, test and scale concepts and ideas that advance Fidelity’s market leadership and enhance every customer’s experience. FCAT teams are curious, inquisitive, and intently focused on the future.

FCAT RESEARCH

Seven Trends Shaping the Future of Fintech

BY: ALE VIGILANTE & CAROLINE FEDERAL

In just five years the fintech landscape has shifted from a focus on solving vertical narrow problems, to being driven by broader horizontal trends. We have identified seven of what we believe are the most important trends shaping the future of fintech.

Thinking Ahead

FCAT teams are always looking beyond the horizon. We analyze social trends and experiment with an array of technologies that may impact Fidelity and its customers over the next five years.

Blockchain

Synthetic Biology: No Longer Life As We Know It?

BY: JOHN DALTON | May 10 2022

Synthetic biology is the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence, opening up the potential to program biological systems much as we program computers.
FCAT recently hosted Amy Webb, founder of the Future Today Institute, and the author of “The Genesis Machine: Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology,” where she discussed the science, and the ethical, moral, and religious issues surrounding synthetic biology

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Artificial Intelligence

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04/26/2022

Blockchain

DAOs: What Are They Good For?

BY:David Bracken | May 5 2022

Over the past year Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) have emerged as a much hyped yet intriguing new way to organize communities online. Owned and run by their users, these digital-native collectives operate transparently via smart contracts on the blockchain. While still in an experimental phase, DAOs early use cases provide a glimpse of their potential.

Blockchain

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04/26/2022

Artificial Intelligence

Can a Machine Be Moral? A Q&A with Jean-Francois Bonnefon

BY: SARAH HOFFMAN | April 13, 2022

FCAT recently hosted a presentation by psychologist and author Jean-Francois (JF) Bonnefon on his latest book, “The Car That Knew Too Much”. The book discusses a groundbreaking experiment, the Moral Machine, that allowed millions of people from over 200 countries and territories to make choices about life-and-death dilemmas posed by driverless cars. Should they sacrifice passengers for pedestrians? Save children rather than adults? Kill one person so many can live?

ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE

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Digital Asset Tracker

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FCAT Events

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Bits & Brews

Thursday May 5, 2022

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET

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Crypto Virtual Reality Meetup

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September 30, 2021

Virtual VR

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This website is operated by Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT)^SM which is part of Fidelity Labs, LLC (“Fidelity Labs”), a Fidelity Investments company. FCAT experiments with and provides innovative products, services, content and tools, as a service to its affiliates and as a subsidiary of FMR LLC. Based on user reaction and input, FCAT is better able to engage in technology research and planning for the Fidelity family of companies. FCATalyst.com is independent of fidelity.com. Unless otherwise indicated, the information and items published on this web site are provided by FCAT and are not intended to provide tax, legal, insurance or investment advice and should not be construed as an offer to sell, a solicitation of an offer to buy, or a recommendation for any security by any Fidelity entity or any third-party. In circumstances where FCAT is making available either a product or service of an affiliate through this site, the affiliated company will be identified. Third party trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners. All other trademarks are the property of FMR LLC.

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