About this episode
In this episode, Martin meets with Dave Excell, founder of award winning fraud prevention technology company Featurespace. If you are in the payments and fintech industry, you most probably will have heard of Featurespace and its groundbreaking AI driven approach to fraud detection and financial crime prevention. Rather than attempting to spot fraudulent activity, Featurespace uses data to build a picture of good customer behaviour. The technology is then able to detect and flag up anomalies to the expected behaviour. In our discussion, Dave shares the journey of Featurespace from his Cambridge university PhD project to the commercialisation of the technology and onto successfully establishing the company as a recognised world leader in financial crime prevention.
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Episode Links
Website: http://www.featurespace.co.uk/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveexcell/
Email: dave@featurespace.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/daveexcell
Guest Bio
Dave is Featurespace’s Founder, responsible for driving Featurespace’s innovation strategy, and working with our global client base to provide the industry with the very best machine learning technology. After studying at the Australian National University and the University of Cambridge, Featurespace began as a concept and has become the leading enterprise financial crime platform for financial institutions and technology providers.
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Martin Koderisch is a Former Principal in the London office. He has 20 years of experience as adviser and operator within financial technology industry with a focus on payments. He specialises in accelerating digital transformation of client businesses through industry expertise, data analytics, and fintech enablement. His approach seeks to bridge the gap between strategy and execution with hands-on delivery of value creation initiatives to achieve growth, control or operational efficiency outcomes. He previously held senior leadership roles within industry at Mastercard, Citibank and start up Luup Payments covering digital product innovation, operations, and commercial partnership development. He hosted and produced EDC's popular podcast ‘Leaders in Payments and Fintech’ podcast available on major podcast platforms.