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The question is more than academic. At stake is the role blockchain technology can play in lowering the costs of raising money.

Rizwan Khalfan (left), an executive VP at TD Bank, and Zor Gorelov, CEO of Kasisto, TD’s partner in developing a chatbot. They are working together on an AI-based virtual assistant for TD's mobile app. (fall 2017)

In experimenting with a chatbot on its mobile app, TD Bank will have to tackle the same issue facing several of its rivals — how to automate conversations with consumers and decide at what point it’s time to switch to a human.

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