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African Bank Accelerates Market Responsiveness with Central Decision Hub from FICO


Bank creates central decision hub with FICO technology to launch new credit strategies 30 percent faster and at 25 percent lower cost 

JOHANNESBURG, Nov. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

HIGHLIGHTS:

African Bank can now launch new credit strategies 30 percent faster at 25 percent lower cost and can make changes to credit strategies in two days instead of two months. The new African Bank, which underwent a restructuring and reopened in 2016, uses FICO decision management software as the central decision-making hub of the bank. This new technology from FICO is said to bring more efficiency, governance and collaboration to the way the bank makes decisions.

More information: http://www.fico.com/en/latest-thinking/case-study/ever-wonder-how-african-bank-transformed-its-decision-system-to-launch-strategies

The bank's transformation included an extensive review of bank operations, which showed that the existing decision-making processes created inefficiencies and missed opportunities for reacting to the market.

"We had the entire bank look at all existing logic going into our decision-making process, which was fragmented over different applications and teams," said Dawid Van Zyl, program executive credit decisioning at African Bank, who led the team tasked with finding optimal ways to run the business.

The team chose FICO® Blaze Advisor® decision rules management system as the hub for all decision-making. After a short implementation period, African Bank is now using Blaze Advisor for decision services in four major modules, with 11 bespoke environments within those modules. The bank is able to manage all of this with a single easy-to-use interface, and now has full lifecycle control over the entire system.

"Once we started solving difficult scenarios with Blaze Advisor in originations, our management team realized we could expand it throughout the enterprise," said Van Zyl. "The vision is to expand across the entire lifecycle and across many products."

As part of this project, FICO introduced a standards-based decision implementation practice, Decision Implementation Accelerator, to the bank, and worked closely with African Bank to understand how to approach each decision scenario.

"The FICO team is a very good fit for us," said Van Zyl. "We don't see them as a service provider. Even partner doesn't do it justice. The FICO team members are like mentors to us. We get a lot out of this relationship."

"Centralized decision control is the goal of every bank," said Derick Cluley, senior director of client sales, who leads FICO's operations in Africa. "It is a difficult challenge, but essential if you're going to execute true customer-level management. African Bank's far-reaching vision has put them in the best-in-class category for decision management."

FICO® Blaze Advisor® is the world's leading decision rules management system, maximizing control over high-volume operational decisions. Blaze Advisor provides companies with a scalable solution that delivers actionable insights for smarter business decisions regardless of the business challenge. FICO Blaze Advisor is a tool offered as part of the FICO® Decision Management Suite.

About FICO

FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956 and based in Silicon Valley, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO first came into South Africa in the 1980s helping many South Africans who did not have any credit history to be able to access credit. FICO holds more than 170 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 100 countries do everything from protecting 2.6 billion payment cards from fraud, to helping people get credit, to ensuring that millions of airplanes and rental cars are in the right place at the right time. Learn more at www.fico.com.

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