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Data Analytics
Our member ACCIS announced the date and theme of its 2023 annual conference! The 2023 Conference theme is Powering data-driven financial decisions . Companies must have best-of-class information-driven tools to target and acquire customers, while managing risks and maintaining healthy margins. Businesses and consumers have to make purchasing and financial decisions in a changing, sophisticated economic and legal environment, where options multiply, as do the risks associated to them. The agenda will explore how technology, data and analytics can support financial decision-making in new, purposeful ways. We will also discuss the role and importance of the credit data ecosystem in...Read more
Digital Financial Services
Two SME Finance Forum Industry Partners, ACCIS (Association of Consumer Credit Information Suppliers), and FEBIS (Federation of Business Information Services), signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create a framework for co-operation to work on joint policy positions, outreach and joint promotions. Read more>Read more
Credit Risk & Scoring
The present study, presented in Brussels, analyses whether sharing more comprehensive data improves the functioning of credit markets in European countries. Assuming that mechanisms to share data do exist, does a higher comprehensiveness in the data collected matter for credit markets? The study answers this by firstly analysing whether higher comprehensiveness in the data collected by credit reference agencies (CRAs) in the EU-28 can impact credit markets, and secondly, by analysing to what extent the sharing of nontraditional data, that is, data not directly related to credit activities, can contribute to wellfunctioning credit markets. The study has been co-authored by...Read more
Supply & Value Chain Finance
Sustainable Finance
Credit Risk & Scoring
The Annual Conference will be preceded by the ACCIS Annual General Assembly held on 12 June at the same venue. The ACCIS Conference, the largest gathering of professionals working on credit data issues in Europe, will again deliver the most up-to-date information in the field of credit referencing. The theme of the conference is Enabling Trust through the Consumer Decision Journey . The agenda will put the focus on the connected consumer, consistent with the industry’s objective to enhance consumer-centrism in our activities. We will explore the role and importance of credit reference agencies and of comprehensive credit reporting systems...Read more
Non Financial Services
Sustainable Finance
Credit Risk & Scoring
Enrique Velasquez, the new ACCIS Secretary General, shared their manifesto on big data and fintech. His highlights are below: "These are our industry's key requests to policy-makers: Enforce ‘same services, same rules’ principle; Expand the credit data set: make more comprehensive credit data pools and data access available across the EU; Promote an EU-wide regulatory and supervisory approach to Big Data and FinTech using innovative frameworks such as 'regulatory sandboxes'. The document was prepared as our contribution to the policy discussions that have taken place in Brussels in the past months. In fact, the European Commission is presenting its long-awaited...Read more