Teaching financial AI to be ethical and fair, with Fairplay CEO Kareem Saleh

In this conversation, we chat with Kareem Saleh, CEO of Fairplay —
FairPlay is the first Fairness-as-a-Service solution for financial
institutions and a fascinating company.– Kareem has been working on
financial inclusion and underwriting hard-to-score borrowers his
entire career. At ZestFinance (now Zest.ai) he served as Executive
Vice President where he led the go-to-market strategy for the
company’s AI-powered b2b SaaS underwriting platform and negotiated
software licensing, partnership, financing and other commercial
deals with Fortune 500 firms, credit bureaus and financial
infrastructure providers. Prior to Zest.ai, he served as an
Executive at SoftCard, a mobile payments startup founded by
AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon that was acquired by Google.
Additionally, Kareem has served in several senior roles in the
Obama Administration, he helped manage the team that negotiated the
Paris Climate Agreement, and oversaw $3B in annual investments into
development-friendly projects in emerging markets. Kareem is a
Forbes contributor and a frequent speaker on the application of
artificial intelligence to financial services, including consumer
loan underwriting, loan servicing, model risk management and fair
lending analysis. He is a graduate of Georgetown University Law
Center and an honors graduate of the University of Chicago, and is
fluent in French and Arabic.Disclaimer here — this newsletter does
not provide investment advice and represents solely the views and
opinions of FINTECH BLUEPRINT LTD. Contributors: Lex, Laurence,
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