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Your algorithms can hurt your business

Your algorithms can hurt your business

Do you know where expensive mistakes are hiding in your data and algorithms?

  • Biased rules and models waste investigation resources on the wrong cases.
  • Flawed scoring approves risky customers while rejecting good ones.
  • Calculation errors can lead to incorrect fees or payments.

We help uncover these problems before they hurt your bottom line, your customers and your reputation.

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Why do these issues come up so often in FS?

Insurance and banking processes can inadvertently affect customers, employees or third parties negatively.

Whether manual or automated, they often rely heavily on data or algorithms (a.k.a AI systems).

Examples include:

  • Automated fee or payment calculations without human intervention (e.g., automated bank fee postings)
  • 3rd party commission calcs that you use for external payments (e.g., to brokers for loan origination)
  • Fraud risk rules and models, flagging potentially fraudulent interactions (e.g., fraudulent insurance claims)
  • Reports with data from multiple sources, that you rely on to make operational decisions (e.g., sales KPIs)

 

They can involve complex data flows, transformations, reports and/or algorithms.

Without proper oversight, these processes can inadvertently lead to unfair treatment or harm to customers.

For example:

  • Biased data/models could result in unfair loan rejections for certain demographic groups
  • Inaccurate fee calculations might overcharge/undercharge customers
  • Incorrect commission calculations can underpay/overpay third parties
  • Aggressive fraud detection could wrongly flag legitimate activity.

 

That's where we come in

We examine these processes in detail. 

We analyse the data inputs, algorithmic logic, and outputs to ensure they're fair and accurate.

By doing so, we help you maintain trust, protecting customers and third parties from unintended harm or disadvantage.

Our approach is outlined further here.

 

We work with senior leaders:

  • In insurance companies, banks and credit unions
  • Who want to know that their algorithmic systems are accurate and fair
  • Who want reviews (rather than just "need" reviews), as explained in this article.

If this describes you, schedule a call to explore how we could work together.