Linea S.p.A. Implements Fair Isaac's Model Builder Platform to Improve Credit Risk Assessment Capabilities.Fair Isaac's Advanced Modeling Tool Enables Company to Develop and Deploy Advanced Analytic Models That Improve Customer Decisions 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 Linea S.p.A., an Italian holding company specializing in consumer credit, has implemented Fair Isaac's advanced predictive modeling tools to improve risk assessment and portfolio profitability. Linea S.p.A. selected Fair Isaac's Model Builder for 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. , version 3.0, to enhance capabilities for developing, implementing and monitoring retail risk scorecards and models across its consumer finance products, including credit cards, auto and cash loans. Model Builder, a key part of Fair Isaac's Enterprise Decision Management technologies, provides Linea S.p.A. with the power to quickly design, modify and deploy sophisticated analytic models to production systems without recoding Noun 1. recoding - converting from one code to another coding, steganography, cryptography, secret writing - act of writing in code or cipher by programmers. These models use historical information as a basis for making better decisions about future transactions, business problems and customer interactions. "We selected Fair Isaac's Model Builder because it is the best tool to help us expand our consumer credit portfolio while still controlling and monitoring risk," said Corrado Giannasca, deputy general manager for Credit and Risk at Linea S.p.A. "Fair Isaac's advanced modeling platform will allow us to significantly improve the efficiency and functionality of our modeling capabilities, and better leverage critical data assets so that we can make the best decisions about our customers." "Model Builder gives Linea S.p.A. analysts direct access to the same innovative analytic techniques that Fair Isaac analysts use every day to build powerful custom predictive models that can be readily deployed across the enterprise," said John Sandifer, Fair Isaac vice president of 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. market. "It provides all the capabilities Linea S.p.A. will need to develop a range of different models, and most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , drive significant efficiency and continuity within its analytics business." Model Builder's advanced modeling capabilities support the design and deployment of decision management applications that can be configured to meet the unique needs of different businesses. Users gain an unparalleled level of control and feedback to fine-tune predictive models for optimized business benefits. In addition to the Scorecard module, Model Builder includes an optional Segmentation ART[TM] (Adaptive Random Trees) module, which improves the quality of predictions by automatically recognizing segments of the data population that can benefit from specialized models. The recently introduced version 3.5 of Fair Isaac's Model Builder also offers the company's innovative Data Spiders[TM] technology as an optional module. Data Spiders technology helps businesses extract maximized value from their transaction data to build stronger predictive models and make more precise decisions across their enterprise applications. About Linea S.p.A. Linea S.p.A. is a finance company specialized in consumer credit. Operating since 1988, it is an initiative of a group of Credit & Savings Banks savings bank, financial institution that, until recently, performed only the following functions: receiving savings deposits of individuals, investing them, and providing a modest return to its depositors in the form of interest. (Popolari Banks), managing more than 3B [euro] of consumer and revolving loans. In less than 10 years, it has achieved a wide national presence thanks to 23 direct points, 2000 banks branches and about 8000 partner dealers. 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. 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