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title: Inventing the future of financial services with MIT's Sandy Pentland
description: Watch MIT’s Alex “Sandy” Pentland discuss how data will increasingly play a bigger role in various areas of the financial system that may revolutionize society.
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# [Inventing the future of financial services with MIT's Sandy Pentland](https://akoya.com/blog/inventing-the-future-of-financial-services)

 Written by [Akoya](https://akoya.com/blog/author/akoya) | Jan 27, 2021 2:00:00 PM

MIT Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland leads a discussion on Inventing the future of financial services based on his latest co-edited book called *Building the New Economy*.

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