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AI-Based Credit Risk Tools Can Be Ruined By Noisy Data

The Horizons Tracker

One’s credit score is often hugely important, with it very difficult to secure substantial loans, such as mortgages, without a healthy credit rating. Thin credit history. This can also mean, however, that it doesn’t take much to send your credit rating spiralling in the wrong direction.

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How Can You Manage Your Small Business Finances More Effectively Using Loans?

Strategy Driven

Also like other types of loans, a business owner’s credit rating can be a deciding factor in whether a loan is approved or not, and it impacts the interest rate of any loan as well. Using Loans to Automate Systems Automating repetitive operations can be important for saving you both time and money.

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Crisis of Faith in the Financial System

Harvard Business Review

What happens when there is a mass loss of confidence in the financial system? One of the first artifacts I thumbed to, a 400-year-old Ming banknote , has striking parallels to today's world, where there is broad disillusionment with the financial system and a lack of confidence in its future.

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How Share-Price Fixation Killed Enron

Harvard Business Review

It appears that Enron''s final fatal mistake was to try to support its stock price instead of living up to key contractual obligations required to maintain its credit rating. Enron owned the largest natural gas pipeline system in the U.S., it is imperative to maintain the trust of the rating agencies).

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A Lesson from Warren Buffet about Ethical Blind Spots

Harvard Business Review

And, when we allow financial firms to choose for themselves the agencies that rates their financial products, the agencies have every incentive to be lax. As we seek to create more integrity in our financial system, we need to realize that even good people are affected by motivational blindness.

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As AI Meets the Reputation Economy, We’re All Being Silently Judged

Harvard Business Review

The reputation economy is based on the simplistic, but effective star ratings system. Anyone who’s ever rated their Uber driver or Airbnb host has actively participated. justice system uses an algorithm called COMPAS to determine a criminal’s likelihood to re-offend. The Risks and Rewards of AI.

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The Real Solution Is Growth

Harvard Business Review

Recent headlines have focused on the debt ceiling , the recent credit rating downgrade , unemployment , and the other thorny fiscal challenges facing the United States. Patenting is the bulwark of the system. A dysfunctional political system threatens innovation and economic growth.