Skip to content
RollCall logo

Podcasts

Tackling bias with math and Zest

Fintech Beat, Ep. 81

Zest is an AI company that creates the software for machine learning in credit underwriting, all with the aim of reducing risk and automating compliance.
Zest is an AI company that creates the software for machine learning in credit underwriting, all with the aim of reducing risk and automating compliance. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)
By Chris Brummer and Evan Campbell
Posted February 2, 2021 at 4:00am

Fintech Beat talks with Zest AI’s top executives to learn about the role of machine learning software in credit underwriting and whether better math can lead to better outcomes when it comes to tackling racial bias in lending.

More podcast content

Show Notes:

Recent Stories

Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., arrives for her House Ethics Committee adjudicatory subcommittee hearing on Thursday. Her attorney, William Barzee, appears at right.

Ethics panel weighs case against Cherfilus-McCormick after rare public hearing

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., leaves the Democratic caucus luncheons in the Capitol on Tuesday.

Competing claims on SAVE America Act disenfranchising voters

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., talks with reporters in the Capitol about DHS funding on Thursday.

Senate passes bill to fund most of Homeland Security Department

Transportation Security Administration officers walk through Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday. TSA officers have been working without pay as the government funding lapse continues.

Trump intervenes to pay airport security workers amid standoff

Wreckage from American Airlines Flight 5342 is pulled from the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Feb. 3, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Rewritten air safety legislation moves out of House committees

Rep. Derek Schmidt, R-Kan., leaves the Capitol Hill Club after a meeting of the House Republican Conference last month.

House panel advances bill on temporary US attorneys