Kareem Saleh

Contributor|Fintech

I'm the founder and CEO of FairPlay AI, the world's first Fairness-as-a-Service company. Previously I served as an executive at Zest.ai, where I led go-to-market strategy for an AI-powered underwriting platform, and SoftCard, a mobile payments startup that was acquired by Google.

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1,424 viewsJan 23, 2024

NYDFS Just Shook Up Insurance AI; Here’s What Insurers Need To Know

Last week the New York Department of Financial Services issued a proposed circular on using AI and alternative data. Here's everything insurance carriers need to know.

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514 viewsOct 17, 2023

Is Considering Immigration Status A Risky Business For Lenders? It Is Now.

Can Lenders Just Say “No” to Immigrants? It depends. Here's what Lenders needs to know.

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1,364 viewsOct 10, 2023

BaaS-ing The Buck: Who Has Fairness Obligations In The Banking-As-A-Service Ecosystem?

Some players in the Banking-as-a-Service ecosystem say fair lending isn't their problem. But they're wrong about the law - and fairness is good for business anyway.

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760 viewsDec 7, 2022

Is Your Marketing Biased? Financial Regulators Are About To Start Checking

Regulators will be testing the fairness of financial product marketing programs, but they've never said how. Here are the metrics financial product marketers can compute to understand if their marketing is fair.

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676 viewsAug 10, 2022

Is It Time To Start Using Race And Gender To Combat Bias In Lending?

We’ve tried “Fairness Through Blindness” to keep discrimination out of lending. Now, as new AI fairness techniques need more data to do their jobs, it’s time to try something new: Fairness Through Awareness.