Scott Stewart is the CEO of the Innovative Lending Platform Association or ILPA; ILPA members include many of the large...
Scott Zoldi, chief analytics officer at FICO, discusses innovation in credit data, credit scoring and fraud protection; FICO has been using artificial intelligence for decades and the firm has over 130 patents; Scott has experience in theoretical physics and joined FICO in 1999 to focus on the use and development of data with a specific interest in machine learning; Scott talks about the company's standard credit scoring services and also the innovative solutions FICO has developed including the FICO XD score for financial inclusion and their fraud solution product, Falcon. Source
Shivani Siroya is the CEO and founder of Tala; headquartered in San Francisco, the company has lending operations focused on the developing world having launched in Kenya in 2014; the company's app is the fifth most downloaded app in the country; Shivani shares her background, how the company got started, details on their lending product, and how they successfully serve those in developing countries. Source
Simon Champ is a pioneer in the lending space creating the first publicly traded investment vehicle; P2PGI launched in may of 2014 in a £200 million IPO and they have now raised a total of £900 million; Champ shares how he first became interested in this space and how much the industry has changed since the fund first launched. Source
In episode 249 of the Lend Academy Podcast we interview Stephen Dash, the CEO and Founder of Credible, one of...
The CEO and Founder of Juvo shares how he plans to bring billions of unbanked people into the financial system for the first time. Source
Earnest is one of the largest student loan refinancers in the country and also offers personal loans; they were acquired...
The Head of Product for BBVA Open Platform discusses banking as a service and the fintech trends that are most...
The CEO and Founder of NerdWallet talks fintech, consumer finance and the changes that are coming. In less than a...
The President and Co-founder of Ovamba talks about the challenges and opportunities of African fintech and why their Growth as...