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Members’ Profile: Rofhiwa Irene Singo

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However, my commerce teacher noticed my aptitude for math and saw potential in me for a different path. My career journey began at the age of 20, working in banking shortly after finishing my studies. My interest in finance began unexpectedly in high school. Can you share some career highlights and defining moments?

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Trusting Machines To Trust The Right Credit Applicants

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Back in the olden days – circa 1950 and before – a customer who wanted a loan would walk into a bank and sit across a desk from a man in a blue suit with a red tie. In Merrill’s experience, regulators have been cautiously interested in machine learning for underwriting; they simply lack the proper framework to understand the new math.

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Transcript: Linda Gibson, CEO PGIM Quantitative Solutions

Barry Ritholtz

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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Transcript: Kristen Bitterly Michell

Barry Ritholtz

It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. It was at Bank One, at the time. RITHOLTZ: There’s always risk involved with counterparties …. BITTERLY MICHELL: Always risk. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management.

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How To Accelerate Client Growth As An Advice-Only Firm

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It’s why we tend to also do investment management, or also do something to implement. And not because it’s not necessarily profitable to give advice for clients at those price points, but that in order to do it and make the math work, you need a lot of clients. Mindy: Yeah. What does that look like? Mindy: Yeah.

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Transcript: Matt Levine

Barry Ritholtz

So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? I mean, I, I liked, I, I like learned a lot from that job and it’s like really helped me do what I do today because it really touched on a lot of elements of the bank.

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Transcript: Luis Berruga, Global X ETFs

Barry Ritholtz

So, yeah, I had a career in investment banking with Jefferies, and it was a really good professional experience because I do have the opportunity to work in M&A, equity and debt financing. I had the chance to be part of some very interesting transactions in the banking space. billion deal. Why covered calls? BERRUGA: Yeah, speed.