Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Ed Wallen, CEO of C&R (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do use cases. You talked about AI models. Where are you firing AI models to achieve what use cases?

Ed Wallen: It’s really on a number of different facets depending on the nature of how our client operates. Generally speaking, the most common are the propensity-to-pay models. They’re action-effect models. What actions are going to lead to the desired outcomes? There’s also mathematical optimization based on the characteristics of this archetype or account. What is the optimal strategy or treatment to put them on that’s going to lead to the desired business outcome?

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Ed talks about combining humanity with Artificial Intelligence to create compelling outcomes in the Collections and Receivables world. Fascinating advances in FinTech.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company.

Ed Wallen: I’m the CEO of C&R Software. I’ve been doing this for about 25 years building, marketing, and selling financial services solutions and systems. For the last 17 years or so, it’s been on the subsegment of that collections and recovery market.

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Ricardo Josua: No, they’re remote. Maybe 120 are in Sao Paulo. We have become remote-first. People have an office if they want to go to an office. If the team wants to have a meeting and three of them are in India, everyone has to connect on their own device. It has to be the same experience for everyone. We have now engineers in India and Singapore. We have a growing team of engineers in the US and UK.