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Experian kicked off its 33rd annual Vision 2014 Conference today in Dallas with the keynote address that attendees have been anticipating for months – President Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States and founder of The Clinton Foundation. Although President Clinton addressed many topics in his talk including some of the important initiatives his foundation is spearheading, the theme centered around creative cooperation and the success that is achievable when people focus on their common goals. Experian hosted 32 breakout sessions throughout the day for attendees. Experian thought leaders, clients and industry experts discussed how to achieve quality growth in a challenging economic and competitive environment. View slides from today's presentations:  Know your enemy – a financial institutions best practices for preventing the latest fraud attacks Customer acquisitions in a changing digital landscape The new world of commercial lending – optimizing opportunities and winning new customers Trends in commercial card and small business lending The evolving landscape of customer management To trust or not to trust Regulatory requirements for model risk governance continue to evolve And check out some favorite tweets from today's conference.

Is your organization prepared to meet these requirements? Although some of the regulatory guidance on Model Risk Governance was released recently, it is nothing new and needs to bean integral and integrated part of an organization’s way of thinking, risk management and overall business strategy. Many organizations have recently invested in this area.  Given the significant time and resource required and the need to know and follow industry best practice, these same organizations have reached out and partnered with Experian as their trusted advisor.  Experian has helped all types and sizes of financial institutions to not just ensure regulatory and compliance demands are met but to meet their business needs and objectives, protect their safety and soundness and increase profitability and return.  Experian has played whatever role needed, whether it is analytics, modeling, consulting or simply staff augmentation, for many of the Top 5 U.S. Banks and international banks in addition to mid-size to small banks, financial institutions and credit unions. One important outcome of the financial crisis of the late 2000’s was increased regulatory oversight which includes an emphasis and need to track changes in the economic environment, as well as, ensure proper application of model development, implementation, use and governance in order to make sure there are no undue risks and ensure the safety and soundness of the institution.  This is clearly not a one-time exercise but a valuable on-going part of proper risk management that will lead to better decisions and enhanced business performance. Let Experian help show you the way! Vision 2014: Regulatory requirements for model risk governance from Experian Business Information Services Tweet This! Changes in economic environment or misapplication of models exposes an organization  Click to Tweet Regulators expect greater use of risk models as result oversight increased to review the mgmnt of these models http://ex.pn/RodDsG  Click to Tweet Model Risk Governance not new concept, but emerging best practice for model risk attribute stability mgmt http://ex.pn/RodDsG #vision201  Click to Tweet  

To trust or not to trust is the ultimate question when it comes to online, card not present transactions. For e-commerce merchants and online shoppers it should be a two-way street. But far too often, a customer who should be trusted has a transaction wrongfully declined. This tarnishes their relationship with the merchant, the bank and the credit-card company, resulting in loss of revenues, interchange fees and most importantly, lifetime loyalty. The impact of consumer action in the face of a decline can have real and measurable effects on all parties, including credit card companies, banks and merchants manifesting itself in lost revenues, lost fees and lost customer loyalty. In fact, in a recently commissioned independent survey by 41st Parameter, a part of Experian, 17% of consumers surveyed had an online transaction declined. That equals about $40 billion lost each year due to false positives… $40 billion that could be reclaimed. What’s even more distressing for consumers, however, is how they FEEL when their online transaction is declined. 83% of those surveyed felt upset, embarrassed or just plain angry. These powerful emotions are evident in WHO the consumer blames for the unwarranted decline – the simple fact is that consumers blame everyone; from the issuing bank to the credit network to the online merchant. Bottom line; everyone loses. Unnecessary operational costs. Decreased loyalty. Interchange loss. Lost revenues. These are just some of the negatives to unwarranted CNP transaction declines. This session will explore how to improve customer service and loyalty by leveraging information merchants and issues already have about consumers – including their buying patterns, methods and payment and devices they use. The combination of these and other factors creates a TrustScore which helps both the merchant AND the issuer determine if these are consumers that can be trusted – even if they only shop with a merchant on a casual basis.  Recognizing customers through trusted digital identities and approving more CNP transactions in real-time provides the opportunity for online retailers to collectively boost top-line revenues by as a much as $1 billion annually. Vision 2014: To Trust or Not To Trust from Experian Business Information Services Tweet this! $40B lost each year b/c unnecessary red flags raised & transactions blocked http://bit.ly/41stinfo #vision2014  Click to Tweet 38% of online shoppers blame their credit card company for CNP http://bit.ly/41stinfo #vision2014 Click to Tweet What’s the key to commerce in the digital world? Trust. How do we know that? Here’s the data to prove it. http://bit.ly/41stinfo #vision2014  Click to Tweet [INFOGRAPHIC] How to foster consumer trust in a digital world http://bit.ly/41stinfo #vision2014 Click to Tweet

Increasingly Experian’s clients are questioning whether they are extracting full value from their data.  There’s more data, more accessible analytic capability – there should be more value created.  But this growing information asset needs to be harnessed by targeting it in the right way (generating the right insights) and having the processes to minimize the time from insight to action. Technology and techniques need to be aligned to efficiently capture, analyze and action customer insight in a concerted way, with the customer view at the center of this activity.  Understanding customers’ current circumstances, and the challenges & opportunities they are likely to encounter, can help us establish what they need right now and predict their future needs.  Identifying life event triggers, and effectively actioning these triggers, can help us ensure that we’re maximizing the customer’s lifetime value with the right communications, with the right content, at the right time. There are two distinct directions companies are taking to extract value from their new customer insight.  The more established route is refining the current business (e.g., optimizing offer pricing, enhancing pre-attrition and pre-default models, and refining cross-sale relevancy models). But increasingly, companies are looking to their customer data as a platform for expanding their business – either by using their unique customer insights to market external propositions or by identifying adjacencies where their existing client base provides a competitive advantage. Either way, customer information can be the key to growth. Vision 2014: The evolving landscape of customer management from Experian Business Information Services

Gone are the days when news of a data breach was shocking. Today they have become all too common an occurrence.  One of the most concerning issues around breaches is that many consumers' digital identities are based on a single email address or username/password.With stolen identity data in hand, criminals can submit fraudulent mortgages, credit card applications, even create fake credit cards, in the names of thousands of unsuspecting victims. Regardless of how the data is used, one thing is certain: breaches pose serious dangers to consumers, retailers and financial institutions. The need for customer-friendly fraud management is stronger than ever. A single layer of protection is simply ineffective as criminals are more efficient than ever in obtaining consumer identification details and compromising simple access credentials. While mobile technologies and the Internet itself have enabled consumers to have anytime access to their financial data, these advances are the very means by which criminals perpetrate fraud.  And customer-friendly technologies and policies continue to outpace the controls and risk management. What controls does your organization have in place to ensure that a fraudster in Malaysia isn't using a legitimate identity and an anonymous proxy to submit credit card applications? Or to alert when a long-standing offline banking relationship suddenly enrolls online? The days and weeks following a breach are a time of heightened risk. Even after a breach has occurred, the risk can be managed.  In “Know Your Enemy”, a fraud prevention focused break out session at Experian’s 2014 Vision conference (#vision2014), Ori Eisen @orieisen and Matt Ehrlich @ehrlichmatters cover current trends and practices for taking on the growing industrialization of fraud.  Together with a risk executive from a leading bank, the team discusses several themes and emerging tactics, including: the cost of single channel fraud prevention strategies, the necessity of a layered security strategy that includes device and identity intelligence, and true real time, point of contact risk-scoring. Vision 2014: Know Your Enemy – a financial institution’s best practices for preventing the latest fraud attacks from Experian Business Information Services

For small business owners, the bumpy ride continues.  Not that things aren't getting better; they are.  Or at least, when you take a step back from the monthly assessments of small business optimism, and observe the trend lines over the last couple of years.  But It’s the up and down, uneven nature of the monthly reporting that gives you this picture of a “she loves me, she loves me not” world small business owners must be living in.  At least life isn't boring. From a lenders perspective, it may not be quite so erratic.  The larger small businesses are providing good opportunities for lenders to provide new financing.  Demand is growing, and that is a good thing.  In addition, new forms of financing are growing in popularity.  Alternative lenders are providing direct financing to small business owners, and providing competition for more traditional banks.  Credit cards are being embraced more and more by small business owners, and provide some nice fringe benefits to owners.  Extending payments, rewards programs, and just plain old convenience are among the benefits small business owners can enjoy by paying their vendors with a credit card.  Not a bad way to go! The increased use of small business cards is just one example of a growing trend spawned during the economy’s comeback from the “great recession”.  Lenders have better tools available to them to grow their small business portfolios, and also to manage them better.   Recent advances in technology and data availability (dare I say “big data”) are providing lenders opportunities for more cost-effective targeting of risk and opportunity.  The ability to cross-sell consumer clients who may also be small business owners is a lower cost way to identify solid prospects for commercial products, as well as a way to potentially reward customer loyalty.  Benchmarking is another trend that has been shown to provide lenders a tremendous amount of insight into how different segments of customers behave, and help to inform strategic policy. 50 002 trends-in_commercial_card_and_small_business_lending from Experian Business Information Services