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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. Those are the kind of numbers that explain why Zest received a $15 million investment last week from software developer Insight Partners. 15M In New Funding .

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206: Zebediah Marewangepo

CFO Talks

When I was studying towards my qualifications for university, I had to choose subjects which were in line with medicine, which was maths, biology and chemistry, but somewhere along the line I ended up doing accountancy and I then finished college in 1994. Tell us about Taxdirect, what exactly are the core focus areas of this business?

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Deloitte country CFO: How you can rise through the ranks

Future CFO

I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. Thinking beyond numbers and building trust Numbers are not everything to the business and management team. The best way to practice this is to understand the rationale behind the numbers, consider end-users as customers and being a great listener end-users.

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189: Andile Dawn Mbatha

CFO Talks

I think what caught my attention is that it’s someone with very good maths skills and I think that’s when it started off and it planted a seed in my heart to say this is exactly what I want to do. I also then started implementing very strong compliance processes, having soft audits in preparation for the audit.

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Dropping A B/D License Without Dropping Current B/D Platform

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And the reason that I liked that one, because I’ve sold very few VAs in my career, but I could do the math on how that rider worked on a piece of legal paper and my calculator. And it’s based on what your assets under management are, your number of accounts. One of our advisors on our team was already IAR only. Is it lower?

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Transcript: Steven Klinsky

Barry Ritholtz

I mean, those were the — that’s what got people all excited and — RITHOLTZ: That’s venture capital numbers. KLINSKY: Well, that is — and it was kind of venture capital numbers because the dollars were so small. RITHOLTZ: So it’s different math then I need 100x winner versus 99? RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

Barry Ritholtz

And from a public market, that sounds like it’s a compliance and conflict nightmare. WENGER: No, we’ve definitely always been disciplined on valuation, and we’ve let a number of things go. And you know, the only thing math works on recognition by peers, and there’s some prizes.

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