FinRegLab hosted a virtual conference in April 2022 featuring research being conducted by FinRegLab and Professors Laura Blattner and Jann Spiess of the Stanford Graduate School of Business on the use of machine learning in credit underwriting, with a particular focus on their potential implications for explainability and fairness.

The U.S. Department of Commerce and National Institute of Standards and Technology, FinRegLab, and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), hosted a virtual conference, “Artificial Intelligence and the Economy: Charting a Path for Responsible and Inclusive AI.”

Building on their report about the use of utility, telecommunications and rental payments history for credit underwriting, FinRegLab and the Urban Institute hosted a webinar in April 2022 to examine the current state of play and the evolving policy landscape. Leaders from the field discussed data access and quality and how to build more robust scoring and underwriting models.