Not sure where your model pipeline currently stands on explainability?<\/div>\n

We can help you design and implement an XAI layer that fits your existing stack.<\/p>\n

Python Libraries and Tools for Explainable AI in Finance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Library<\/strong><\/td> Best Use Case<\/strong><\/td> Model Compatibility<\/strong><\/td> Output Format<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
SHAP<\/strong><\/td> Feature-level attribution for individual predictions; widely used for regulatory reporting<\/td> Model-agnostic (tree-based, linear, and deep learning models)<\/td> Force plots, summary plots, waterfall charts<\/td><\/tr>
LIME<\/strong><\/td> Quick local explanations for individual predictions during early-stage development<\/td> Model-agnostic<\/td> Local feature weight approximations<\/td><\/tr>
ELI5<\/strong><\/td> Debugging models and generating readable text-based explanations during development<\/td> Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, Keras<\/td> Text summaries, feature weight tables<\/td><\/tr>
InterpretML<\/strong><\/td> Building inherently interpretable (glass-box) models from the ground up<\/td> Native glass-box models and black-box wrappers<\/td> Interactive dashboards<\/td><\/tr>
Alibi<\/strong><\/td> Counterfactual explanations for adverse action reasoning and decision transparency<\/td> Model-agnostic<\/td> Counterfactual examples, anchors<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
SHAP is typically used by financial institutions because its results can be easily mapped into the form used in regulatory reporting, and the fact that SHAP has a game-theoretical approach means that mathematically, it has some solid ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Python’s use in finance is not limited to interpretability alone. The same programming language can be used in high-performance trading algorithms using Python in FinTech, where speed and interpretability have to go hand in hand. For teams building this in-house, our Python application development services<\/a> can help extend an existing model pipeline with a production-ready explainability layer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Explainable AI in Practice: A Real-World Example<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Let’s think about a lending service that is aimed at self-employed people, a category that most financial institutions will identify as a high-risk one only on the grounds of having an irregular income flow. A customized risk assessment algorithm needs to analyze irregular income flow, transaction history, and other factors, which would be dismissed by a conventional FICO scoring system as unimportant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"Financial$ <\/figure>\n\n\n\n
This is close to what CMARIX built for Prexto<\/a>, a lending platform issuing loans to independent workers who would otherwise be considered high risk under conventional scoring models. The build centered on two things working together:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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A coded risk model- <\/strong>evaluated creditworthiness using a broader signal set than a standard FICO-based approach, built to fairly assess applicants with irregular income patterns.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Reporting and analytics for the admin team-<\/strong> gave the platform visibility into exactly how loan performance and risk decisions were trending across the portfolio, not just what the model output on a single application.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Getting the reporting layer right mattered as much as the underlying model, because a lending platform operating in a regulated market needs to show its work, not just issue decisions. The market this kind of platform serves is expanding quickly, too. The global robo-advisor market is projected to reach approximately $54.74 billion<\/a> in assets under management by 2030, and that growth curve only holds up if the underlying decision engines stay auditable as they scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
$\"Robo$ <\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Why this pattern generalizes:<\/strong> Any system of lending or scoring that deals with a non-traditional population group is faced with the same fundamental conflict. The greater extent to which the model differs from the typical credit scoring model in order to properly evaluate the non-traditional candidate, the more necessary it becomes to have an explanation layer in place to justify that difference and ensure it does not result in discrimination. And this is precisely the conflict that the good design of an XAI approach aims to solve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Common Pitfalls When Implementing XAI in Financial Systems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Explanations that satisfy engineers but not compliance reviewers<\/strong>– A SHAP summary plot means little to a compliance officer who needs a plain-language reason for a customer. Translation layers between technical output and human-readable reasoning aren’t optional; they’re the actual deliverable in a lot of cases.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Ignoring the performance-explainability tradeoff until it’s too late<\/strong>– Teams often build a high-performing black-box model first, then discover during validation it can’t be adequately explained. Planning the tradeoff at the design stage avoids a costly rebuild later.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
Treating XAI as a one-time compliance checkbox- <\/strong>An explainability layer built for one audit cycle will fail the next one, especially as models retrain and data drifts. XAI needs to live in the pipeline permanently, not get bolted on before each review.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Why Choose CMARIX for Explainable AI Development in Finance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Building explainable AI systems that hold up under regulatory scrutiny takes more than knowing the libraries; it takes experience in understanding how financial institutions actually get audited. CMARIX has worked on financial software spanning banks, lending platforms, and trading systems, with explainability and model verification built in from the start rather than treated as an add-on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Explainability is incorporated into our custom AI development<\/a> process for your existing architecture, whether it involves building a new scoring model from the beginning to be transparent right from the start or retrofitting your existing black box pipeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once a model can explain a decision, that explanation still has to reach the people who need it. Our AI-powered business intelligence solutions<\/a> turn raw model outputs into reports your compliance team can hand to an examiner directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
When it comes to Explainable AI in finance, the technology cannot simply be an afterthought when designing a model – the need for explainability should be a mandatory component of its development. What sets Python apart from many other programming languages is that it allows developers to design and develop such models in a straightforward manner, without sacrificing their performance. Yet, what makes the process truly difficult is the ability to implement the very explainability of the pipeline, to document and keep it updated as models are retrained and regulations change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The companies that will derive maximum benefit from using AI in the finance industry will not be those with the best-performing models out there. They will be the companies whose models can pass the test of an underwriter, a regulator, and a customer on the receiving end of decisions made based on them. This may imply either modifying an existing model or completely redesigning the company’s fintech software development<\/a> roadmap. Whatever the case may be, Python allows doing just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
FAQ on Explainable AI in Finance<\/h2>\n\n\n
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What is Explainable AI (XAI) in the financial sector?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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XAI in finance refers to machine learning systems designed so that every prediction, whether it’s a credit approval, risk score, or fraud flag, comes with a reason a human can review and defend. It’s the difference between a model that works and a model an institution can actually stand behind.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Why is explainability a regulatory compliance requirement?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Frameworks like SR 11-7, ECOA\/Reg B, GDPR Article 22, and the EU AI Act all require financial institutions to justify automated decisions, particularly for lending and credit. A model that can’t produce a compliant explanation can’t legally be used for those decisions in most regulated markets.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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How does XAI build trust and transparency for consumers?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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When a customer is denied credit or flagged for fraud, a clear explanation provides them something to act on, whether that’s disputing an error or understanding what to improve. It also gives internal teams like underwriters and compliance officers confidence to stand behind a model’s output.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Why is Python considered the key programming language for XAI?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Python has the deepest ecosystem of explainability libraries like LIME, SHAP, InterpretML, ELI5, Alibi, built for ML interpretability, along with the data science tools financial teams already use. That combination makes it the practical default rather than a separate, bolted-on toolchain.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Does explainability make AI models less accurate?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Interpretable-by-design models may sacrifice some accuracy for explainability, but post-hoc techniques such as SHAP provide a way to maintain high-accuracy models yet be able to produce justifiable explanations. In any case, it’s more about development time and complexity of the process than it is about accuracy.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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What are the core finance use cases that benefit from Python XAI?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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The areas in which explainability is most often needed include credit and loan underwriting, fraud detection, AML transaction monitoring, and algorithmic trading monitoring. Any system that involves a financial decision impacting a client or requiring a regulatory submission is a prime candidate for explainability.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Can explainable AI reduce bias in financial models?<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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It does not eliminate bias on its own, but it allows us to see bias. Explanations at the feature level point out clearly what is causing the decision. Therefore, a team can detect a proxy variable for a protected class, such as zip code being used to represent race, prior to deploying the algorithm.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Framework<\/strong><\/td>	Region<\/strong><\/td>	What It Requires<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
SR 11-7<\/strong><\/td>	United States<\/td>	Institutions must validate model outputs and the reasoning behind them, not just accuracy metrics.<\/td><\/tr>
GDPR Article 22<\/strong><\/td>	European Union<\/td>	Consumers have the right to an explanation for decisions made through automated processing.<\/td><\/tr>
Regulation B \/ ECOA<\/strong><\/td>	United States<\/td>	Lenders must provide adverse action notices when denying credit applications.<\/td><\/tr>
EU AI Act<\/strong><\/td>	European Union<\/td>	Classifies most credit scoring and fraud detection systems as high-risk AI systems.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n All of this is not simply theoretical. Any model incapable of generating a satisfactory solution cannot be deployed in most regulated markets due to legal reasons. As these models intersect within the context of institutions active on an international scale, EU AI Act Compliance<\/a> tends to become the basic standard set by the team everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trust and Adoption Friction<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Regulators aren’t the only audience. Underwriters, credit officers, and compliance reviewers often have to defend a model’s decision to a customer or an examiner, and they won’t put their name behind a system they can’t explain. This is one of the most underrated blockers to AI adoption in finance: an accurate model can still get rejected internally because nobody trusts what’s happening inside it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A few patterns show up consistently where this friction slows adoption down:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \n Underwriters overriding model recommendations<\/strong>– When a model’s reasoning isn’t visible, staff default to their own judgment instead, which quietly erodes the return on the model investment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n Compliance teams delaying sign-off<\/strong>– Reviewers who can’t trace a decision back to specific inputs tend to hold up launches until documentation catches up, adding months to a rollout.<\/li>\n\n\n\n Customer-facing teams struggling with disputes<\/strong>– Support staff fielding a denied application or a fraud flag need a reason they can actually communicate, not a probability score.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n Cost of Black-Box Failures<\/h3>\n\n\n\n The financial and reputational cost of getting this wrong is well documented. Rejected model validations delay launches by months, and discrimination lawsuits tied to biased lending models have resulted in huge settlements across the industry. When a black-box model fails an audit, the fallout often triggers a broader review of every system built the same way, stalling an entire AI roadmap while the review plays out. The scale of this exposure keeps growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n $\"People$ <\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n How to Build Explainable AI in Finance Using Python: Step-by-Step<\/h2>\n\n\n\n $\"Steps$ <\/figure>\n\n\n\n 1. Choose the Right Model Family<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Every XAI project begins with a tradeoff decision. Interpretable-by-design models (linear regression, decision trees, generalized additive models) are transparent by nature but can leave performance on the table. Complex models (gradient boosting, neural networks) tend to perform better but need post-hoc explainability layered on top. This decision underpins model risk management finance teams have to formalize early, because switching model families midstream after a validation failure is expensive and slow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A useful rule of thumb: If it is an application that has many regulations, such as credit decisions, you should first opt for the most interpretable model within your acceptable level of performance, and then consider black-box models only if the difference in performance is big enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2. Select Your Python XAI Libraries<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Python’s ecosystem is the reason it dominates this space. The right library depends on the model type, the audience for the explanation, and how the explanation needs to be delivered (a data scientist reviewing feature importance has very different needs than a customer-facing adverse action letter).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3. Integrate Explainability Into the Model Pipeline<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Explainability that gets bolted on after a model ships tends to break the first time the model gets retrained. Developing it into the pipeline means every retraining cycle automatically regenerates explanation artifacts alongside the new model version, so there’s never a gap between what’s in production and what’s documented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4. Generate and Validate Feature-Level Explanations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n This is where actual credit scorecarding with transparency using Python comes in. Explanations at the feature level must be validated according to domain knowledge, and not taken as gospel truth. If one of the factors for rejecting an application in the credit model is the zip code proxying a protected attribute, it must be identified in this stage itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5. Build Audit-Ready Documentation and Reporting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Any model that is to be audited requires documentation that the non-technical reviewer can utilize. This means taking SHAP values or feature importance values into simple reasoning and version history that ensures all the explanations provided are mapped to that particular version of the model used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6. Set Up Monitoring for Explanation Drift<\/h3>\n\n\n\n Monitoring for model drift is a common practice in most mature fintech organizations. However, explanation drift is not commonly done, but should be done since the changing features of the machine learning model, even though the accuracy of the model has remained constant, should trigger further investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Failing to do so results in organizations only realizing the presence of explanation drift when the reviewer conducting an audit realizes that the explanation provided about the process does not match what the machine learning model is doing.<\/p>\n\n\n \n Not sure where your model pipeline currently stands on explainability?<\/div>\n We can help you design and implement an XAI layer that fits your existing stack.<\/p>\n Talk to Us<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n Python Libraries and Tools for Explainable AI in Finance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Library<\/strong><\/td> Best Use Case<\/strong><\/td> Model Compatibility<\/strong><\/td> Output Format<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> SHAP<\/strong><\/td> Feature-level attribution for individual predictions; widely used for regulatory reporting<\/td> Model-agnostic (tree-based, linear, and deep learning models)<\/td> Force plots, summary plots, waterfall charts<\/td><\/tr> LIME<\/strong><\/td> Quick local explanations for individual predictions during early-stage development<\/td> Model-agnostic<\/td> Local feature weight approximations<\/td><\/tr> ELI5<\/strong><\/td> Debugging models and generating readable text-based explanations during development<\/td> Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, Keras<\/td> Text summaries, feature weight tables<\/td><\/tr> InterpretML<\/strong><\/td> Building inherently interpretable (glass-box) models from the ground up<\/td> Native glass-box models and black-box wrappers<\/td> Interactive dashboards<\/td><\/tr> Alibi<\/strong><\/td> Counterfactual explanations for adverse action reasoning and decision transparency<\/td> Model-agnostic<\/td> Counterfactual examples, anchors<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n SHAP is typically used by financial institutions because its results can be easily mapped into the form used in regulatory reporting, and the fact that SHAP has a game-theoretical approach means that mathematically, it has some solid ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Python’s use in finance is not limited to interpretability alone. The same programming language can be used in high-performance trading algorithms using Python in FinTech, where speed and interpretability have to go hand in hand. For teams building this in-house, our Python application development services<\/a> can help extend an existing model pipeline with a production-ready explainability layer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Explainable AI in Practice: A Real-World Example<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Let’s think about a lending service that is aimed at self-employed people, a category that most financial institutions will identify as a high-risk one only on the grounds of having an irregular income flow. A customized risk assessment algorithm needs to analyze irregular income flow, transaction history, and other factors, which would be dismissed by a conventional FICO scoring system as unimportant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n $\"Financial$ <\/figure>\n\n\n\n This is close to what CMARIX built for Prexto<\/a>, a lending platform issuing loans to independent workers who would otherwise be considered high risk under conventional scoring models. The build centered on two things working together:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n A coded risk model- <\/strong>evaluated creditworthiness using a broader signal set than a standard FICO-based approach, built to fairly assess applicants with irregular income patterns.<\/li>\n\n\n\n Reporting and analytics for the admin team-<\/strong> gave the platform visibility into exactly how loan performance and risk decisions were trending across the portfolio, not just what the model output on a single application.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n Getting the reporting layer right mattered as much as the underlying model, because a lending platform operating in a regulated market needs to show its work, not just issue decisions. The market this kind of platform serves is expanding quickly, too. The global robo-advisor market is projected to reach approximately $54.74 billion<\/a> in assets under management by 2030, and that growth curve only holds up if the underlying decision engines stay auditable as they scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n $\"Robo$ <\/figure>\n\n\n\n Why this pattern generalizes:<\/strong> Any system of lending or scoring that deals with a non-traditional population group is faced with the same fundamental conflict. The greater extent to which the model differs from the typical credit scoring model in order to properly evaluate the non-traditional candidate, the more necessary it becomes to have an explanation layer in place to justify that difference and ensure it does not result in discrimination. And this is precisely the conflict that the good design of an XAI approach aims to solve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Common Pitfalls When Implementing XAI in Financial Systems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n \n Explanations that satisfy engineers but not compliance reviewers<\/strong>– A SHAP summary plot means little to a compliance officer who needs a plain-language reason for a customer. Translation layers between technical output and human-readable reasoning aren’t optional; they’re the actual deliverable in a lot of cases.<\/li>\n\n\n\n Ignoring the performance-explainability tradeoff until it’s too late<\/strong>– Teams often build a high-performing black-box model first, then discover during validation it can’t be adequately explained. Planning the tradeoff at the design stage avoids a costly rebuild later.<\/li>\n\n\n\n Treating XAI as a one-time compliance checkbox- <\/strong>An explainability layer built for one audit cycle will fail the next one, especially as models retrain and data drifts. XAI needs to live in the pipeline permanently, not get bolted on before each review.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n Why Choose CMARIX for Explainable AI Development in Finance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Building explainable AI systems that hold up under regulatory scrutiny takes more than knowing the libraries; it takes experience in understanding how financial institutions actually get audited. CMARIX has worked on financial software spanning banks, lending platforms, and trading systems, with explainability and model verification built in from the start rather than treated as an add-on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Explainability is incorporated into our custom AI development<\/a> process for your existing architecture, whether it involves building a new scoring model from the beginning to be transparent right from the start or retrofitting your existing black box pipeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Once a model can explain a decision, that explanation still has to reach the people who need it. Our AI-powered business intelligence solutions<\/a> turn raw model outputs into reports your compliance team can hand to an examiner directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n When it comes to Explainable AI in finance, the technology cannot simply be an afterthought when designing a model – the need for explainability should be a mandatory component of its development. What sets Python apart from many other programming languages is that it allows developers to design and develop such models in a straightforward manner, without sacrificing their performance. Yet, what makes the process truly difficult is the ability to implement the very explainability of the pipeline, to document and keep it updated as models are retrained and regulations change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The companies that will derive maximum benefit from using AI in the finance industry will not be those with the best-performing models out there. They will be the companies whose models can pass the test of an underwriter, a regulator, and a customer on the receiving end of decisions made based on them. This may imply either modifying an existing model or completely redesigning the company’s fintech software development<\/a> roadmap. Whatever the case may be, Python allows doing just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n FAQ on Explainable AI in Finance<\/h2>\n\n\n \n \n \n What is Explainable AI (XAI) in the financial sector?<\/strong><\/h3>\n \n\n XAI in finance refers to machine learning systems designed so that every prediction, whether it’s a credit approval, risk score, or fraud flag, comes with a reason a human can review and defend. It’s the difference between a model that works and a model an institution can actually stand behind.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n Why is explainability a regulatory compliance requirement?<\/strong><\/h3>\n \n\n Frameworks like SR 11-7, ECOA\/Reg B, GDPR Article 22, and the EU AI Act all require financial institutions to justify automated decisions, particularly for lending and credit. A model that can’t produce a compliant explanation can’t legally be used for those decisions in most regulated markets.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n How does XAI build trust and transparency for consumers?<\/strong><\/h3>\n \n\n When a customer is denied credit or flagged for fraud, a clear explanation provides them something to act on, whether that’s disputing an error or understanding what to improve. It also gives internal teams like underwriters and compliance officers confidence to stand behind a model’s output.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n Why is Python considered the key programming language for XAI?<\/strong><\/h3>\n \n\n Python has the deepest ecosystem of explainability libraries like LIME, SHAP, InterpretML, ELI5, Alibi, built for ML interpretability, along with the data science tools financial teams already use. That combination makes it the practical default rather than a separate, bolted-on toolchain.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n Does explainability make AI models less accurate?<\/strong><\/h3>\n \n\n Interpretable-by-design models may sacrifice some accuracy for explainability, but post-hoc techniques such as SHAP provide a way to maintain high-accuracy models yet be able to produce justifiable explanations. In any case, it’s more about development time and complexity of the process than it is about accuracy.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n What are the core finance use cases that benefit from Python XAI?<\/strong><\/h3>\n \n\n The areas in which explainability is most often needed include credit and loan underwriting, fraud detection, AML transaction monitoring, and algorithmic trading monitoring. Any system that involves a financial decision impacting a client or requiring a regulatory submission is a prime candidate for explainability.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \n Can explainable AI reduce bias in financial models?<\/strong><\/h3>\n \n\n It does not eliminate bias on its own, but it allows us to see bias. Explanations at the feature level point out clearly what is causing the decision. Therefore, a team can detect a proxy variable for a protected class, such as zip code being used to represent race, prior to deploying the algorithm.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Quick Summary: Explainable AI in finance is not just a theoretical concept; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,10522,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-fintech","category-machine-learning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52722"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52750,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52722\/revisions\/52750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmarix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}