Fair Isaac’s credit scoring business faces a growing threat as privacy rules tighten and new digital lending options make it easier to judge borrowers without traditional scores. See why some think this could squeeze its influence and pricing power even as the company pushes new products and expands into new markets.Read more
FICO looks set to ride a wave of faster digitization in lending as banks and lenders lean on its tools to automate decisions and manage fraud, with newer score versions and alternative data opening doors beyond its traditional strongholds. The catch is that its business still leans heavily on one core scoring product, leaving it exposed if regulators tighten rules or big lenders shift to rival approaches.Read more
FICO is trying to tighten its grip on credit scoring by pushing new mortgage licensing and rolling out newer scoring tools that fit how people borrow today, while shifting more of its business to subscription-style software. But new rules and rival scoring systems could chip away at its long-held advantage, and slower growth in its software offerings raises the stakes.Read more
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Fair Isaac Corporation provides analytics software in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through two segments, Scores and Software. The Scores segment offers business-to-business scoring solutions and services that give clients access to predictive credit and other scores that can be integrated into their transaction streams and decision-making processes, as well as business-to-consumer scoring solutions comprising myFICO.com subscription offerings. Its Software segment provides pre-configured analytic and decision management solution designed for various business needs or processes, such as account origination, customer management, customer engagement, fraud detection, and marketing, as well as associated professional services. This segment also offers FICO Platform, a modular software offering designed to support advanced analytic and decision use cases, as well as stand-alone analytic and decisioning software that can be configured by customers to address a wide range of business use cases. In addition, the company offers analytic and decisioning software comprising FICO Decision Modeler, FICO Blaze Advisor, FICO Xpress Optimization, FICO Analytics Workbench, FICO Data Orchestrator, FICO DMP Streaming, FICO Business Outcome Simulator, and FICO Decision Optimizer; pre-configured solutions consisting of FICO Fraud Solutions, FICO Originations, FICO Customer Communication Service, FICO Strategy Director, and FICO TRIAD Customer Manager; and professional services software, including FICO Implementation Services and FICO Analytic Services. It markets its products and services primarily through its direct sales organization and indirect channels, as well as online. The company was formerly known as Fair Isaac & Company, Inc. and changed its name to Fair Isaac Corporation in July 1992. Fair Isaac Corporation was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Bozeman, Montana.
