PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

On average, our customers will see a 20 percent lift in approvals and a 30 percent reduction in charge-offs just by deploying better math,” de Vere said. In this case, the “cake” is the improved performance and economics that many banks experience when they update systems that in some cases have been in place since the 1950s. “On

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

They are typically a good credit risk and are expected to command $1.4 trillion in spending by 2020, but many lack the financial history needed to pass a traditional credit check,” said ZestFinance founder and CEO Douglas Merrill in the same press release.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2019

But it occurred to them that their solution was useful outside of HR — and that many of the things that made someone a good hire of over time could also make them a good credit risk over time, if the artificial intelligence (AI) model they were using to screen with were modified to that task.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

Whether it’s decisioning models used for fraud, credit risk, customer operations or marketing, AaaS can be a powerful tool in helping a company address whatever it is trying to solve. Whether that decision flow is around marketing, credit risk, customer operations and retention, etc., The “Buy Vs. Build” Decision.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And so, with this gave me exposure to everything from investment banking to retail, looking at like checking account campaigns, like how do you get more assets in the door to credit risk. I — I loved math, but really, I was going to go down that literature route more than anything else and — and study Spanish literature.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

But there are so many tools at your disposal, and let alone how much duration you’re taking, how much interest, how much credit risk you’re taking, illiquidity, et cetera. And how do you make the decision, I’m not comfortable with this credit risk relative to the return it’s going to throw off?

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

And you had to take on significant duration risk and credit risk just to earn a couple percentage points. So what was challenging for me was like, actually, when we moved to the US when I was seven years old, I was always good with math, but my English was below average.

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