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Zest AI CEO: Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Lending and Credit

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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. However, he said firms get comfortable with the technology once they see that they can access, build and deploy AI/ML underwriting models that meet all compliance and regulatory hurdles.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

Let me say what your compliance wouldn’t allow you to say. The challenge is unlike the S&P 500, hedge funds sit in a box that has underlying credit risk from prime brokers. So the credit markets froze. And at the time, I was managing Protege Partners as a hedge fund of funds. RITHOLTZ: You were crushing it.

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Transcript: Rick Rieder

Barry Ritholtz

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?