Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO)

A Fair Isaac Corporation (FICO) is a data analytics company.

• Context:
  • It can produce FICO Products, such as FICO Decision Management Suite (DMS).
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • SAS Institute.
• See: Financing Corporation, Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, FICO Score, Data Analytics, Credit Rating.

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References

2024

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/fico/about/
  • FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 200 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 100 countries do everything from protecting 4 billion payment cards from fraud, to improving financial inclusion, to increasing supply chain resiliency. The FICO® Score, used by 90% of top US lenders, is the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the US and has been made available in over 40 other countries, improving risk management, credit access and transparency. Learn more at www.fico.com.
  • Website: http://www.fico.com
  • Industry: Software Development
  • Company size: 3,559 associated members
  • Headquarters: Bozeman, Montana
  • Founded: 1956
  • Specialties: Predictive Analytics, Decision Management Tools and Applications, Scores, Consultancy, B2B Enterprise Software, Enterprise Software, Decision Technology, Enterprise Fraud, Cyber security, Fraud Detection, and Loan origination software

2017

• (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FICO Retrieved:2017-4-4.
  • FICO, originally Fair, Isaac and Company, is a data analytics company based in San Jose, California focused on credit rating services. It was founded by Bill Fair and Earl Isaac in 1956. Its FICO score, a measure of consumer credit risk, has become a fixture of consumer lending in the United States. In 2013, lenders purchased more than 10 billion FICO scores and about 30 million American consumers accessed their scores themselves.

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