Ideas that move Fidelity forward.

The Fidelity Center for Applied Technology^®, 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.

The Future Is Now

The Next Generation of Technology

Watch and see how FCAT is exploring the future, working on a host of rapidly evolving technologies which may positively impact the firm and its customers.

Projects and Observations

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

The Path to Blockchain-Based Financial Markets

BY: ALE VIGILANTE AND LAUREEN OUELLET | March 16, 2023

Fintech’s Third Wave—the use of tokenization and smart contracts to rebuild the infrastructure, processes, and business models underlying fiat money and traditional assets—is well underway. The transition to this blockchain-based infrastructure for our industry will likely follow a path of least resistance, with different products and processes charting their own paths.

Blockchain

Article

03/14/2023

Artificial Intelligence

AI: The Next Generation

BY: Sarah Hoffman | March 8, 2023

We’re in a new era of AI. “It feels like we’re going from spring to summer,” said Jack Clark, a co-chair of Stanford University’s annual A.I. Index Report. “In spring, you have these vague suggestions of progress, and little green shoots everywhere. Now, everything’s in bloom.” In less than three years, we’ve seen AIs become...

Artificial Intelligence

Article

03/07/2023

Quantum

Quantum State Preparation of Normal Distributions using Matrix Product States

BY: Elton Zhu | March 6, 2023

Monte Carlo methods are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to predict outcomes of complex scenarios with multiple unknowns. They’re commonly used in the financial industry to evaluate risks, price derivatives, and create long-term strategies, as in the case of retirement planning.

Quantum

Article

03/02/2023

Podcast

Looking for timely commentary on crypto, blockchain, DeFi, and the intricacies of the ecosystem? Listen in as our working technologists dig beneath the surface and analyze the latest news and trends. The FCAT Crypto Brief^TM is a lively, 30-minute roundtable forum where some of most important stories are dissected and discussed. Join us every week as your hosts – Jason, Jack, Ryan, and Parth – point out what’s up, and prepare us for what’s next!

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This website is operated by Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT)^® 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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