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Fair Isaac and Turkey's Akbank Expand Partnership through Deployment of Falcon ID.


Largest Privately Owned Turkish Bank Becomes First European Lender to Adopt Advanced Identity Fraud Detection Solution

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 Akbank, Turkey's largest privately owned bank, has completed implementation of Fair Isaac's Falcon[TM] ID solution to provide its customers with effective protection against identity fraud.

Under terms of the agreement, Akbank will become the first European lender to deploy Falcon ID, initially using the solution to protect its credit card portfolios. Falcon ID is Fair Isaac's comprehensive solution for identity fraud detection, which combines the company's industry-leading predictive analytics Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of techniques from statistics and data mining that process current and historical data in order to make “predictions” about future events. , a sophisticated authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC.

(2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network.
 interview process and multiple sources of data for validating identities. The solution enables Akbank to quickly detect and efficiently resolve identity fraud attempts, and validate the identity of a valued customer or prospect at the earliest possible stage.

"We welcome the opportunity to build on our successful relationship with Fair Isaac by integrating Falcon ID into our enterprise-wide decision management processes," said Yesim Harbath, Senior Vice President of Card Operations at Akbank. "Fair Isaac's fraud and identity theft detection solutions are proven among financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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 leaders, and Falcon ID easily integrates with our existing technology investments. The solution will help us improve operational efficiency in credit account originations and increase acceptance rates, while effectively managing risk."

Akbank is currently using several other Fair Isaac applications for Enterprise Decision Management (EDM (Engineering Data Management) An information system that maintains the details of all engineering data while the product is in the design and concept phase. This includes geometry and changes to geometry. See PLM.

EDM - Electronic Data Management
). These include a suite of Fair Isaac custom models and Customer Management TRIAD Triad

Term used variously for secret societies in Qing-dynasty China (and sometimes earlier), for modern Chinese crime gangs, and for crime gangs of other Asian nationals operating in their own countries or abroad.
[TM], which enables the bank to further automate key credit decisions and better manage risk at the customer level. The bank also uses a Fair Isaac origination Origination

The process through which a mortgage lender creates a mortgage secured by some amount of the mortgagor's real property.

Notes:
Also known as loan origination, everyone must go through the origination process when securing a mortgage for a piece of real
 decisioning solution to automate and improve application processes for its "CepKredi" service, which allows consumers to apply via their cell phone for mortgages, general purpose credit and auto loans.

"Credit grantors in Turkey and throughout Europe who are seeking to expand their consumer lending Consumer lending or consumer loans refers to any type of loan product that is not a mortgage; such as a car, boat, manufactured home, home equity loan, home equity line of credit, signature loan, signature line of credit, recreational vehicle, or Certificate of Deposit loans.  business require advanced systems that enable them to safely and efficiently underwrite To insure; to sell an issue of stocks and bonds or to guarantee the purchase of unsold stocks and bonds after a public issue.

The word underwrite has two meanings.
 new accounts and optimize their customer decisions," said Robert Duque-Ribeiro, Managing Director for Europe, Middle East and Africa markets at Fair Isaac. "Falcon ID provides Akbank with a comprehensive approach to preventing identity fraud, reducing losses and protecting its credit card holders. We look forward to helping Akbank and other leading financial institutions throughout Europe take control of complex decision processes across their portfolios and leverage them for a competitive advantage."

Akbank currently receives approximately 200,000 credit card applications per month, of which 45 percent are declined. Falcon ID allows the lender to apply an unprecedented depth of predictive data from both internal and external sources in order to determine in real time whether an application is genuine or fraudulent, resulting in faster and more precise origination decisions.

Falcon ID's capabilities include an ID Clearinghouse which accesses external data and validation services as required in order to facilitate real-time sharing of critical information between companies in the same industry -- and across different industries -- to detect when an identity is compromised. The ID Clearinghouse also provides organizations with cost savings and more control over their data investments by enabling them to buy only the types and amounts of data that match their specific fraud detection requirements.

About Akbank

Founded in 1948, Akbank is the most valuable company and most profitable private sector bank in Turkey as of year-end 2006. In addition to core banking activities, Akbank also offers a wide range of retail, commercial, corporate, private banking and international trade finance services. Non-banking financial, capital market and investment services are provided by the Bank's subsidiaries including Ak Leasing, Ak Securities, Ak Investment Fund, Ak Asset Management and Ak Pension Fund.

Akbank carries out its activities through its Head Office in Istanbul and 13 Regional Directorates in Turkey. With a strong and extensive distribution network that includes 687 branches, Akbank also provides services through Retail and Corporate Internet Branches, its Telephone Banking Center, 1,632 ATM/BTMs, 240,287 POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET.

(2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak.

POS - point of sale
 terminals and the latest technology channels such as kiosks, cell phones and pocket PC platforms.

About Fair Isaac

Fair Isaac (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.

Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Information

Except for historical information contained herein, the statements contained in this press release that relate to Fair Isaac, including statements regarding its Falcon ID and TRIAD product offerings, and the benefits to be derived from these offerings, are forward-looking statements forward-looking statement

A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections.
 within the meaning of the "safe harbor Safe Harbor

1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated.

2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive.
" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including any unforeseen technical difficulties related to the implementation, use and functionality of the offerings, the risks that customers will not perceive material benefits from the offerings, failure of the products to deliver the expected results, the possibility of errors or defects in the offerings, regulatory changes applicable to the use of consumer credit and other data, and other risks described from time to time in Fair Isaac's SEC reports, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K

A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information.


Form 10-K

See 10-K.
 for the year ended September 30, 2006, and its quarterly report on Form 10-Q Form 10-Q

See 10-Q.
 for the period ended December 31, 2006. Forward-looking statements should be considered with caution. 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, Falcon and TRIAD 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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