Why Aren’t Models a Financial Asset Category? – Jonathan Schmidt, Nets A/S, Nexi Group

Session Outline

Models, and their underlying data, are not assets that we typically see as items in balance sheets. But shouldn’t they be? Many companies live or die by the performance of their models. Shouldn’t this have enormous ramifications for business?

Key Takeaways:

• Models, pipelines, cleaned data and documentation should be a financial asset category.
• Corporate budgeting should allocate investment based on performance, not historical run cost.
• If intellectual property has value, then we should understand that a finely tuned model has equal value opportunity and more.