Fintech Chatter Podcast

Series B Capital Raise - Ada Guan, Rich Data Co

November 24, 2023 Dexter Cousins | Fintech Executive Search Season 11 Episode 178
Fintech Chatter Podcast
Series B Capital Raise - Ada Guan, Rich Data Co
Show Notes

In episode 178 of Fintech Chatter Podcast, Dexter Cousins is joined by Ada Guan, CEO and Co-Founder of RDC (Rich Data Co).

About this episode of Fintech Chatter Podcast

Is there a viable use case for AI in banking? 🤔

Making her Fintech Chatter debut Ada Guan CEO of Rich Data Co shares how they are reinventing the way banks assess and provide credit to businesses, using AI.

It's an awesome episode where we talk about:

  • Real AI use cases for banking
  • Modernising a 70 year old credit model
  • Leaving a corporate job to start a business
  • Hiring and retaining the best AI and Data engineers
  • How rock climbing has helped create a high performance culture
  • How to consistently win business with major banks (with only 2 people in sales and marketing)


About RDC

RDC is delivering the future of credit, today!  They believe credit should be accessible, fair, inclusive, and sustainable. By using AI, the team at RDC has developed new techniques that leverage traditional and non-traditional data to get the right decision in a clear and explainable way.

Changing customer expectations means credit needs to be offered & consumed in new and different ways. Global leading financial institutions are leveraging the RDC AI decisioning platform to offer credit in a way that aligns to the customers’ needs and expectations.

RDC's AI Decisioning platform harnesses the incredible potential of AI and combines it with industry expertise to create the ‘AI brain for a bank’. RDC is accelerating innovation in business lending to deliver transformational and sustainable long-term business success for customers.

Find out more https://www.richdataco.com/

Careers: https://careers.richdataco.com/

About Ada


Ada brings over 20 years’ global experience in financial services, software, and retail industries. 

Leading a Global Client Advisor team at Oracle Corporation, she advised board and C-level executives in large global banks on digital disruption and Fintech strategy, and drove Oracle thought leadership in banking digital transformation for Global Key Accounts. 

During her time at Westpac Bank in Australia, Ada implemented a multi-million dollar program to deliver a mission critical services layer for the Bank and formulated the IT strategy that formed the basis of the $800m investment program to transform Westpac’s Product and Operation division, and complete the merger with St. George Bank. 

Ada holds an EMBA from the Australia Graduate School of Management, and a Master of Computer Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

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