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The following excerpt comes from an interview of Michael Shapiro, Managing Director of Synthesis, by Business Day<\/a>\u00a0to understand why partnerships are vital for banking innovation.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMany organisations are keen to provide better origination, product distribution and customer service to their market segments,\u201d says Synthesis\u2019 Managing Director Michael Shapiro. \u201cSome are keen to adopt machine learning and artificial intelligence for decision-making in processes such as credit scoring and product marketing.”<\/p>\n

This is an area where Synthesis is able to bring its own wealth of experience, having worked with many of the country\u2019s leading financial institutions, and invest heavily in research and development.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to read the full article.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following excerpt comes from an interview of Michael Shapiro, Managing Director of Synthesis, by Business Day\u00a0to understand why partnerships are vital for banking innovation.\u00a0 \u201cMany organisations are keen to provide better origination, product distribution and customer service to their market segments,\u201d says Synthesis\u2019 Managing Director Michael Shapiro. \u201cSome are keen to adopt machine learning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,34],"tags":[],"ptype":[11],"sectors":[],"class_list":["post-4624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-enablement","category-conversation","ptype-articles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe future of fintech is collaboration - 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