Explainable AI and a new style of credit bureau, with Evan Chrapko (Trust Science)
How to Lend Money to Strangers
Brendan le Grange
4.9 • 43 Ratings
🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We eat volatility for breakfast, we make love to volatility!
Which is handy, because we’ve all heard it, most of us have even said it ourselves, the world is very volatile at the moment. So when Evan Chrapko of Trust Science told me how their models embrace volatility, I knew we were onto something interesting. Even more so, because I spent a decade working in the credit bureaus myself, and that’s the industry that Trust Science is disrupting right now with its volatility-eating models.
As mentioned in our chat, your first port of call for further information is https://www.trustscience.com/ (though they are also on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/company/trust-science/)
Or you can jump straight to the news articles about their work https://www.trustscience.com/articles-page (including the Mail and Globe article we spoke about)
Evan was also recently at LendIt USA, and you catch a video clip behind the scenes here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34PrP7Ak4aw
You can learn more about myself, Brendan le Grange, on my LinkedIn page (feel free to connect), my action-adventure novels are on Amazon, some versions even for free, and my work with ConfirmU and our gamified psychometric scores is at https://confirmu.com/ and on episode 24 of this very show https://www.howtolendmoneytostrangers.show/episodes/episode-24
If you have any feedback or questions, if you would like to participate in the show, or if you'd like to find full written transcripts with timestamps head on over to HowtoLendMoneytoStrangers.Show
Regards,
Brendan
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| 1:57.0 | Evan Crapco, welcome to Heart of Lin Manitus Strangers. It's an absolute honor to have you on. |
| 2:02.6 | You're the founder and CEO of Trust Science and evolution of the traditional credit bureau |
| 2:08.5 | that seems to have a particular focus on identifying the invisible prime, those |
| 2:14.3 | low-risk borrowers who simply lack the data to make them obvious to traditional models. As someone |
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