The Creditinfo Chronicle
Kazakhstan launches first cloud services for its financial market
The press office of the First Credit Bureau is pleased to announce the launch of new cloud services for the Kazakhstan financial market – FCB Cloud – cloud-based decision-making solution. Now FCB clients have access to cloud services for decision-making automation, the key factor in credit-cycle, as well as to automation of the whole credit conveyor without recourse to major financial outlays and time-consuming IT-related integration processes.
Creditinfo Academy – Gamification by Ieva Bieliunaite
Ieva Bieliunaite, the Marketing Manager from Creditinfo Group explains the concept of gamification. Gamification is the use of design elements characteristic for games in non-game contexts.We use game-based mechanics, aesthetics, and game thinking to engage people, motivate action, promote learning, and solve problems.
PMA aims for better credit allocation with upgraded scoring system
After a number of year of cooperation, Creditinfo have developed a new version of the Scoring Model for PMA.
Read more in the article by Daniel Hinge, Author for CentralBanking.com below
More transparency in Lithuania: no scores for companies hiding finances
Creditinfo Lithuania and state owned Centre of Registers took an joint initiative to encourage companies timely submit yearly financial statements for public registry.
Creditinfo Lithuania will no longer count credit scores for companies that didn’t provide financial statements for Centre of Registers. Instead of credit score, such companies will receive a score class of F0. That class at company’s credit report will come with a warning that company does not comply with the law on the provision of information. Continue reading »
Creditinfo Lithuania presented Property Value app for World Bank
Creditinfo was invited by Centre of Registers to present for World bank delegation first application in Lithuania for pledged property value.
State owned Centre of Registers invited Creditinfo CEO Andrius Bogdanovičius to present application as a good example of public-private partnership (PPP). Creditinfo developed tool is located at Centre of Registers server. Therefore a customer, usually a bank, benefits from direct access to the database and the highest performance.
5th World Credit Congress & Exhibition in Romania
Come along and meet the Creditinfo team at 5th World Credit Congress & Exhibition in Romania between June 8th and 10th. Creditinfo is a partner of the conference and we are also exhibiting at WCCE 2016 this year – if you are attending the event, we would love to see you there! If you’d like to make arrangements to meet up during the conference, please don’t hesitate to contact us or simply catch up with us at anytime throughout the conference. During the whole course of the conference and at the breaks, we will be located in our Creditinfo exhibition booth. You can meet us there and experience our credit risk management products.
Aurimas Kacinskas, CEO, Creditinfo Romania, is a panel member of the discussion on Comparative Credit Risk Best Practices on Thursday 9th June between 4.30pm – 5.30pm. Email: aurimas.kacinskas@creditinforomania.ro
Agata Szydlowska, Head of Financial Inclusion and CRB Awareness, Creditinfo Group, will be moderating the panel session Credit Risk Management Now Warrants a Seat “At the Table” on Friday 10th June at 11.30am – 12.30am. Email: agatas@creditinfo.com
CONTACT US
To find out more about Creditinfo, please visit creditinfo.com and for our local office in Bucharest, please see creditinfo.ro or contact us at info@creditinforomania.ro or call us on +40 31 437 09 63
Strategic steps in Africa: Compuscan Group invests in Creditinfo Group
A strategic partnership between Creditinfo and the largest independent credit bureau in Africa, Compuscan, will drive growth, accelerate innovation and assist organisations in making better informed credit risk management and business decisions in emerging markets. Backed by Actis, the pan-emerging markets investor, Compuscan has invested in a minority share of the international credit information and risk management solutions provider.
Creditinfo Solutions on Vltava Run
Creditinfo Solutions once again put together a team to do a relay race called Vltava Run. The race follows the flow of Vltava (Moldau), the longest river within Czechia, and goes from the South Extremity of the Country to Prague. Runners are taking turns fot two days, day and night, to finish the race. From the left to the right, you can see Matěj Hron, Anastasia Yurina, Václav Děkanovský, Radka Szabová, Jakub Kortus, Jirka Tomášek, Seth Marks and Sasha Novoselov.
Raido Soom, Sales Director at Creditinfo Estonia
Raido started on the 2nd of May as the new Sales Director at Creditinfo Estonia (Krediidiinfo). Continue reading »
Meet our new Board Members
At a Board Meeting in May, we introduced our new Board Members. We decided that we wanted to have some very smart people join us, to strengthen decision making and to help guide the Group to the next level. People who will look from the outside in. We are pleased to welcome:
Nora Kerpolla, who is well known to the Creditinfo family, having been involved with us as a shareholder since 2010. She has had a successful career in private equity. Particularly, she has had success in relation to many information and technology companies. She was the Chairman of the Finnish Credit Bureau and in just a short period of time, she helped see the value of that company increase by more than 250%. Find Nora on LinkedIn.
Jakob Sigurdsson, has successfully managed strategic and operational turn-arounds and ran private and listed businesses with US$350 million to $1 billion in turnover. He has also been the Captain of the Icelandic National Handball team. Additionally, he played for the national Handball team in 3 different Olympics too – 1984 in LA, USA, 1988 in Seoul, Korea and also 1992 in Barcelona, Spain. Handball was the favourite sport of the country during these times (Iceland sucked at football in those days!). Find Jakob on LinkedIn.
Meet Claudine Baldacchino, Financial Controller at Creditinfo Malta
In the middle of May 2016, Crediitnfo Malta welcomed Claudine to the team as their new Financial Controller. Continue reading »
Hulda Magnusdottir, Executive Assistant
Hulda started working as an Executive Assistant for Creditinfo Group in April this year, but she has previously worked for Creditinfo, during both summers of 2012 and 2013, working in data processing. Continue reading »
New Head of Research and Innovation at Creditinfo
Better known to his colleagues and friends as Sasha, Alexander Novosolev has moved from his previous position as Product Manager with Creditinfo Solutions based in Prague, Czechia. He will now be based in the UK and will continue to travel frequently around the world in his new role as Head of Research and Innovation, reporting to Kristinn Agnarsson, Head of Credit Bureau Expansion. Continue reading »
Courtney Lodge has joined the Creditinfo Jamaica team
Creditinfo Jamaica have appointed specialist consultant, Courtney Lodge, (pictured) who brings to the table a wealth of knowledge and experience in finance and credit.
Courtney Lodge is a Business Transformation Consultant and co-owner of his consulting firm, Strategic Corporate Interventions (SCI) Limited. His assignments have included international consultation and training for/with organizations including the Commonwealth Secretariat (India), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Caribbean Association of Indigenous Bank, and the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce. Continue reading »
Creditinfo Georgia highlighted in The Smart Campaign country report
Creditinfo Georgia have been highlighted in a country report, Georgia Client Voice Research, carried out by The Smart Campaign.
Check out more information at http://smartcampaign.org/tools-a-resources/1088 and
read the report at: http://issuu.com/smartcampaign/docs/voices_from_georgia/3?e=11120844/33529342 Continue reading »
