Fair Isaac Enterprise Origination Solutions Deliver Competitive Edge In Emerging Romanian Consumer Credit Market.Raiffeisen Bank S.A. Romania Selects Fair Isaac's Capstone Origination Solutions to Streamline Decisioning Process, Expand Capacity and Increase Profitability MINNEAPOLIS -- Fair Isaac Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE: FIC), founded in 1956 by engineer Bill Fair and mathematician Earl Isaac, provides consulting services and enterprise decision management systems. Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :FIC FIC First International Computer FIC Fogarty International Center (John E. Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences; National Institutes of Health) FIC Fellowship for Intentional Community ), the leading provider of analytics and decision management technology, announced today that Raiffeisen Bank S.A., Bucharest, the Romanian subsidiary of Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG, will utilize its enterprise origination solutions to improve decision management and expand its portfolio in Romania's fast-growing consumer credit market. Under terms of the agreement, the bank selected Fair Isaac's Capstone[R] Decision Manager and Capstone[R] Decision Accelerator solutions to automate and streamline its customer application decisioning process, increase processing capacity, and reduce the number of new applications that require manual review by a credit analyst. Combined, these enterprise origination solutions will enable Raiffeisen Bank to realize greater profitability by booking more loans, reducing operational costs and delays and better managing credit risk. "Raiffeisen Bank intends to leverage Fair Isaac's deep industry and analytic experience and reduce the time-to-market of new product launches," said Carl Rossey, Vice President of Raiffeisen Bank. "The Capstone solution will allow us to cost-effectively deliver on our requirements, keep pace with our growth plans and provide a strong foundation for our future objectives." "As one of the fastest-growing consumer credit markets in the world, Romania offers significant opportunities for Fair Isaac to share our market-leading analytics and expertise in enterprise decision management," said John Sandifer, Vice President Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. , at Fair Isaac. "With its powerful decisioning and analytic technology, affordability and ease of implementation, Capstone will help leading financial institutions such as Raiffeisen Bank meet the growing demand for credit from consumers and small businesses, and give them a significant competitive edge." Capstone Decision Manager is used globally to automate and improve decisions in a variety of service industries, including consumer and auto lending, credit cards, small business lending, mortgage and insurance underwriting, and claims processing. Existing clients have automated up to 90 percent of new account application decisions while minimizing risk. In the UK, Capstone processes one quarter of all mortgage underwriting An Introduction to Mortgage Underwriting Underwriting is the process a lender uses to determine if the risk of lending to a particular borrower under certain parameters is acceptable. . Leading U.S. financial services companies use Capstone to process more than 35 percent of credit card applications. Specifically designed for new account originations, Capstone Decision Accelerator is ideal for building and maintaining the policies, practices and procedures that define the complex business strategies found in the origination process. The solution leverages the power of Fair Isaac's Blaze Advisor A system for adding rules-based processing into an application from Fair Isaac Corporation, Minneapolis, MN, (www.fairisaac.com). Blaze Advisor is a Java-based rules engine that enables Windows, Solaris and OS/390 applications to be more easily revised by making changes in the rules [TM] business rules management system and will enable Raiffeisen Bank Romania to significantly decrease development time for new policies, decrease dependence on IT to change policies, and rapidly respond to changing market needs. About Raiffeisenbank Romania Raiffeisen Bank is a top universal bank on the Romanian market, providing a complete range of high quality products and services to private individuals, SMEs and large corporations via multiple distribution channels: banking outlets (more than 250 throughout the country), ATM and EPOS (Electronic Point Of Sale) See point of sale. networks, phone-banking (Raiffeisen Direct), mobile-banking (myBanking) and Internet-banking (Raiffeisen Online). Raiffeisen Bank is a subsidiary of Raiffeisen International Bank-Holding AG (Raiffeisen International). Raiffeisen International operates one of the leading banking networks in CEE cee n. The letter c. with subsidiary banks and leasing companies in 16 markets. More than 11.7 million customers are attended to through more than 2,775 business outlets. In eight markets, the respective Network Bank ranks among the three largest local banks. Representative offices in Lithuania and Moldova complement the Group's presence in the region. Raiffeisen International is a fully consolidated subsidiary of Raiffeisen Zentralbank Raiffeisen Zentralbank is a co-operative bank based and founded in Austria and operating throughout central and eastern Europe. "Raiffeisen" is a reference to Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, the founder of the co-operative movement of credit unions. Osterreich AG (RZB RZB Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG (Austria) RZB Rudolf Zimmermann Bamberg (German) ), which owns 70 per cent of the common stock. The remaining 30 per cent is free-float, the shares are traded on the Vienna Stock Exchange Vienna Stock Exchange (VSX) One of the world's oldest exchanges, which accounts for approximately 50% of Austrian stock transactions; the balance are traded OTC. . RZB is a leading corporate and investment bank in Austria and the central institution of the Austrian Raiffeisen Banking Group, the country's largest banking group. (http://www.ri.co.at, http://www.rzb.at) About Fair Isaac Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FIC) makes decisions smarter. The company's solutions and technologies for Enterprise Decision Management give businesses the power to automate more processes and apply more intelligence to every customer interaction. Through increasing the precision, consistency and agility of their decisions, Fair Isaac clients worldwide increase sales, build customer value, cut fraud losses, manage credit risk, reduce operational costs, meet changing compliance demands and enter new markets more profitably. Founded in 1956, Fair Isaac powers hundreds of billions of decisions per year in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, retail, consumer branded goods, healthcare and the public sector. Fair Isaac also helps millions of individuals manage their credit health through the www.myFICO.com website. Visit Fair Isaac online at www.fairisaac.com. 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If any of these risks or uncertainties materializes or any of these assumptions proves incorrect, Fair Isaac's results could differ materially from Fair Isaac's expectations in these statements. Fair Isaac disclaims any intent or obligation to update these forward-looking statements. Fair Isaac, Capstone and Blaze Advisor are trademarks or registered trademarks of Fair Isaac Corporation, in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or in other countries. Other product and company names herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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