Machine Learning Governance at a Global Payments Company: Full Rollout, or a Risk-Tiered Pilot First?
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Minerva judgment
Prioritize a scoped, reversible risk-tiered governance pilot: given the lack of evidence on current coverage and control costs, focusing first on validation practices for potentially higher-impact models is more controllable and reversible than a simultaneous full rollout
Decision owner in the teaching simulationChair of the Payments Company Risk Committee in an independent training simulation
Human-controlled next action
Commission the risk committee to launch a cross-team risk-tiering inventory, first defining the list of potentially high-impact models and the current state of governance coverage, to establish the basis for pilot scope
What would reverse the recommendation
If the pilot process shows that the risk-tiering judgment lacks reliable grounding (e.g., coverage and model-risk data referenced in U1, U2 remain unavailable), such that the 'scoped' approach itself cannot be supported by evidence, then it should be reassessed whether a more conservative default strategy is warranted rather than continuing to rely on the tiered pilot
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Machine Learning Governance at a Global Payments Company: Full Rollout, or a Risk-Tiered Pilot First?
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