Business Insider: After expansion: these are the key people at debt collection startup Pair Finance

In today's lunchtime episode, we speak with Stephan Stricker, Founder and CEO of Pair Finance, about Pollen Street's acquisition of a majority stake in the FinTech.

PAIR Finance founder and CEO Stephan Stricker: "All companies whose customers are shopping, banking and car-sharing online are in good hands with us. We currently have more than 300 well-known business customers, including Zalando, Sixt, ShareNow, Home24, Versicherungskammer Bayern and Jochen Schweizer."

Have you ever had trouble paying your bills and received annoying phone calls or letters about it? Debt collection is definitely an area where I wouldn't have thought to find AI, but today on the show I talk to Stephan Stricker, Founder and CEO of Pair Finance and Maxime Kaniewicz, Data Science Team Lead. About how they combine the insights and methods of targeted marketing with reinforcement learning, to encourage customers to pay their bills.