Andrew Watkins-Ball

Andrew Watkins-Ball
JUMO

Andrew Watkins-Ball is the founder and CEO of JUMO – a technology platform delivering digital financial services to unbanked and underbanked entrepreneurs and small businesses in emerging markets. To date more than 10 million people in Africa and Asia have saved or borrowed through JUMO.

Watkins-Ball has worked in technology and financial services for nearly a decade, prior to which he successfully built and sold businesses including Gateway Telecommunications, a satellite service provider that was purchased by Vodacom in 2008. He also spent seven years at Wall Street investment bank, Salomon Brothers, in London and New York.

Articles by Andrew Watkins-Ball

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Monday
April 8
2019

Andrew Watkins-Ball

Don’t Fear the Algorithm: The Risks and Benefits Of Machine Learning in Finance

Billions of people around the world lack access to basic financial services, and far too many promising entrepreneurs are deprived of financial opportunities simply because they don’t have a credit history. As JUMO founder and CEO Andrew Watkins-Ball sees it, this lack of access is fundamentally a technology problem – and machine learning can help solve it. But algorithm-assisted banking is not without risks: Watkins-Ball discusses its benefits and downsides, and how it's powering JUMO's work in Africa and Asia.

Categories
Finance, Technology

Tags
behavioral economics, credit scoring, digital payments, financial inclusion, fintech

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