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EXL, Oliver Wyman and Corridor Platforms team up to launch real-time risk decisioning solution for financial institutions
NEW YORK, July 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — EXL [NASDAQ: EXLS], a leading data analytics and digital operations and solutions, Corridor Platforms, a leading decision workflow automation platform, and Oliver Wyman, a premier global management consultancy, today announced a joint venture to develop a risk decisioning-as-a-service solution for financial institutions. The breakthrough new solution leverages advanced analytics, AI and the cloud to deliver instant credit decisions necessary to support digital lending initiatives such as point-of-sale financing, digital loans, mortgage approvals and real-time credit limit changes.
The rapid-fire growth of digital lending has put mid-sized and regional banks at a significant disadvantage versus national players with the tech infrastructure in place to support real-time decisioning. With this new decisioning-as-a-service solution, banks and credit unions of every type will now be able to take advantage of a hosted advanced decisioning cloud populated with external and internal data sources and a dedicated team of industry experts, while maintaining full control of compliance and governance. This will enable them to become competitive immediately versus the most advanced lenders.
“As digital lending products have proliferated, the customer expectation for instant approval on everything from a buy now, pay later offer to an online mortgage application has put enormous pressure on lenders to automate their credit risk decisioning processes,” said Ash Gupta, Chairman of Corridor Platforms and former Chief Risk Officer of American Express. “While speed is clearly the goal, it cannot come at the expense of robust risk controls. With our risk decisioning as a service solution, we’re giving lenders a turnkey solution to deliver real-time credit decisions with the risk governance necessary to meet their fiduciary requirements.”
Smaller banks have found it prohibitively expensive to invest in big data technologies and attract top AI/ML talent to complete effectively. Some banks have started using generic vendor scores for decisioning, but as most products become digital, this strategy could leave them at a permanent competitive disadvantage versus real-time, hyper-personalized models and decisioning strategies. Decisioning is a core function and banks need to make a transformational leap to meet growing digital expectations from consumers. While most solution providers use black box models, this industry first offering is truly a build, operate, transfer solution. It will allow banks to learn on the job from industry experts, as they modernize/automate the decisioning process, with immediate performance gains as a proof point.
“When it comes to lending, current consumer expectations are that they get to choose between relevant offers from multiple sources and receive real-time answers. Regional banks and Credit Unions, used to a loyal and captive base, are dealing with acceptance rates that have fallen sharply in recent months. To be relevant, banks need to transform their data/analytics infrastructure and uplift modeling talent quickly,” said Vikram Pandit, Chairman of EXL and former Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup. “With this new offering, we’re bringing the collective power of the industry’s leading technology, analytics and governance experts together to create a solution that will make lenders competitive quickly, while transferring critical know-how so that they become self-dependent in the long run.”
Capturing a wide range of traditional credit risk measures, including credit scores, purchase and payment histories and bank statement data, along with non-traditional data, real-time fraud screening and risk rating tools based on data generated from each new transaction, the risk decisioning-as-a-service solution is designed to address the unique challenges of digital lending.
“Lenders offering real-time digital credit products need to get comfortable moving beyond traditional credit data and scoring by adopting AI-enabled software that learns from all relevant data and builds proprietary risk scoring in real-time. But they need to do so with full compliance and robust governance,” said Til Schuermann, Co-Head of Oliver Wyman’s Finance, Risk and Public Policy practice and Board member of Corridor Platforms. “Oliver Wyman is thrilled to collaborate with Corridor and EXL to provide analytics, risk management and regulatory expertise and guidance as they stand up this industry first offering.”
Both EXL and Oliver Wyman have a long history of working together with Corridor to support client needs and both companies have a minority stake in Corridor.
For more information about this Risk Decisioning-as-a-Service solution, click www.exlservice.com/credit-risk-decisioning.
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About EXL
EXL (NASDAQ: EXLS) is a leading data analytics and digital operations and solutions company that partners with clients to improve business outcomes and unlock growth. By bringing together deep domain expertise with robust data, powerful analytics, cloud, artificial intelligence (“AI”) and machine learning (“ML”), we create agile, scalable solutions and execute complex operations for the world’s leading corporations in industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, media, and retail, among others. Focused on driving faster decision-making and transforming operating models, EXL was founded on the core values of innovation, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect. Headquartered in New York, our team is over 39,000 strong, with more than 50 offices spanning six continents. For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.
About Corridor Platforms
Corridor Platforms is a leading provider of proprietary decision workflow governance and automation software. The company’s decisioning platform was created by a team of highly seasoned credit professionals leveraging the most advanced analytics and big data capabilities. The core leadership team comprises of senior executives with decades of experience designing, underwriting, pricing and managing multi-billion-dollar lending portfolios through multiple credit and recessionary cycles. Corridor Platforms Inc. is majority owned by its founders, with additional investment from EXL Service and Oliver Wyman. For more information visit www.corridorplatforms.com.
About Oliver Wyman
Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in more than 70 cities across 30 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organization transformation. The firm has more than 5,500 professionals around the world who work with clients to optimize their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman is a business of Marsh McLennan [NYSE: MMC]. For more information, visit www.oliverwyman.com. Follow Oliver Wyman on Twitter @OliverWyman.
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New analyst report recognizes Basware capabilities with the highest scores possible in the Exception Handling, Fraud and Risk Management, and Tax Compliance and Operations criteria.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Basware, a global leader in AP automation and invoice processing, has been recognized as ‘a Leader’ in The Forrester Wave™: Accounts Payable Invoice Automation, Q3 2024.
CFOs, business leaders and AP (accounts payable) professionals have long sought automated invoice processes. But only recently, with the advent of AI, has there been a significant shift in the space. Companies must offer superior AI capabilities, greater automation, and more comprehensive insights into financial and cash data to attract new customers and retain existing ones.
According to the Forrester report, Basware was named as a leader in its 31-criterion evaluation. The company received the highest scores possible across 16 criteria, including Exception Handling, Fraud and Risk Management, and Tax Compliance and Operations.
The Forrester Wave™ report states:
“Basware heads the pack with a laser focus on automating the last mile of AP processes. As the largest specialist provider of APIA [Accounts Payable Invoice Automation] software, Basware has established itself as an APIA powerhouse with customer obsession, practical innovation, and solid execution. Its pragmatic product roadmap addresses critical client pain points related to compliance and fraud management.”
AP teams have been battling against external forces in recent years, such as macro-economic headwinds, the supply chain crunch, labor market shortages and expanding regulations, putting the squeeze on resources. To alleviate pressures, AP professionals need access to cost and time effective technologies that can manage increasingly complex business operations, support customers and always remain compliant with global regulations.
Nish Makwana, Finance Manager at Specsavers (customer of Basware), commented:
“Being recognized as a leader in the Forrester report confirms the outstanding performance we’ve experienced as a customer of Basware’s AP automation and Statement Matching solutions.”
In recent months, Basware has furthered its commitment to innovation and delivering value to customers and the industry by:
Partnering with Deloitte to remove manual invoice processing and accelerate finance transformationAcquiring UK-based AP Matching to boost statement reconciliationLaunching AP Protect to help protect organizations from the threat of invoice errors and fraud using AIJason Kurtz, CEO at Basware, commented:
“AP teams are tasked with managing thousands of invoices and payments every week, often putting a strain on resources and pushing them to balance speed with compliance. The answer to this challenge? Unified end-to-end APIA solutions. The industry has been calling for enhanced automated solutions to support AP departments, and we’re helping our customers save time and money, while remaining compliant with ever-changing global regulations. We believe that being named a leader sets us apart from our competitors. But we’re just getting started, and the best is yet to come.”
In 2023, Basware experienced one of its most successful financial years in its almost 40-year history. It expanded its market presence and added over 300 customers to its global portfolio of over 1000+ AP customers. During that period, Basware handled over 200 million invoices and $900 billion in invoice spend through its platform.
About Basware
Basware is how finance leaders in global enterprises can finally automate their complex, labor-intensive invoice processes and stay compliant with regulatory change. Our AP automation and invoicing platform helps you achieve a new level of efficiency – in a matter of months – while reducing errors and risks. We bring a unique combination of true automation, complete coverage, and deeper expertise to make it all just happen for our customers. That’s why the world’s most efficient AP departments at thousands of companies rely on Basware to handle over 220 million invoices per year. Basware. Now it all just happens.™
For more information visit: https://www.basware.com/en/
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Cato Networks Named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Single-Vendor SASE
Cato SASE Cloud Platform continues to shape the enterprise security market
TEL AVIV, Israel, July 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Cato Networks, the SASE leader, today announced that Gartner, Inc. has recognized the company as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Single-Vendor SASE.
“Cato’s true SASE platform is the antidote to IT complexity that persists in the face of ongoing so-called ‘platformization’ efforts,” said Shlomo Kramer, co-founder and CEO at Cato Networks. “Cato pioneered the SASE market and is shaping its future with best-in-class customer experience and a train of innovations that deliver on SASE’s promise.”
Built from its inception to be a platform, the Cato SASE Cloud combines operational excellence and an elegant customer experience. Cato’s autonomous cloud service offloads IT from the grunt work of extending, upgrading, patching, and scaling security infrastructure while sustaining resiliency and availability. “Platformization” is a portfolio approach to SASE and attempts to integrate multiple acquired products with differing code bases, form factors, policy engines, and data lakes into a single platform – an impossible task that is apparent to anyone familiar with the two approaches.
“We believe this Gartner recognition reflects what our customers experience with Cato every day,” continued Kramer.
As of July 3, 2024, on Gartner Peer Insights™, the Cato SASE Cloud Platform had an overall rating of 4.7 out of 5 for single-vendor SASE and 183 verified reviews – more than 10x of any Leader in the single-vendor SASE Magic Quadrant.
Cato Expands the Scope of Single-Vendor SASE
Gartner defines single-vendor secure access service edge (SASE) offerings as those that deliver multiple converged-network and security-as-a-service capabilities, such as software-defined WAN, secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, network firewalling and zero trust network access. These offerings use a cloud-centric architecture and are delivered by one vendor.1
The Cato SASE Cloud Platform extends beyond the original definition of SASE to deliver world-class performance and empower IT teams to eliminate threats and troubleshoot network incidents faster. Cato owns and manages the global cloud network, delivering an exceptional SASE experience to any enterprise worldwide. Functionally, Cato extends beyond threat prevention of the original SASE scope with SASE-managed endpoint protection (EPP/EDR) and SASE-based extended detection and response (XDR), the first AI-driven networking and security incident detection and response platform.
To experience Cato yourself, visit us at https://www.catonetworks.com.
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Expanding Messaging Capabilities for Businesses
SAN FRANCISCO and STOCKHOLM, July 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Sinch (Sinch AB (publ) – XSTO: SINCH), which is pioneering the way the world communicates through its Customer Communications Cloud, today introduced the Sinch Omnichannel Connector on Salesforce AppExchange. This innovative solution enhances conversational marketing opportunities and customer experiences by offering Salesforce Marketing Cloud customers advanced one-way and two-way messaging capabilities. The solution is now available on Salesforce AppExchange.
The Sinch Omnichannel Connector seamlessly integrates with the Salesforce ecosystem, empowering businesses to elevate their marketing strategies by reaching and engaging customers across their preferred channels. This new offering expands the reach of Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform features, providing a comprehensive suite of omnichannel messaging capabilities. Businesses can now connect with customers through one-way and two-way messaging across 13 diverse channels, including platforms like RCS, Kakao Talk, Viper, and Instagram. This expands Salesforce’s native channels of SMS, MMS, Email, WhatsApp, and LINE, providing a comprehensive communication solution.
“With the Sinch Omnichannel Connector, businesses can enhance their customer communications, personalize engagements, and maximize the return on their marketing investments,” said Jonathan Campbell, Senior Director, Messaging Products at Sinch. “Salesforce Marketing Cloud users can now leverage a broader spectrum of messaging channels through Sinch, beyond those directly supported by Salesforce, to optimize their marketing strategies and elevate customer engagement.”
To get started, Salesforce Marketing Cloud users simply need to have an existing account and onboard the Conversation API through the Sinch Dashboard. From there, they can easily activate the channels of their choice, tailoring their messaging strategy to suit their unique business needs.
Sinch has partnered with Salesforce since 2014 when Salesforce expanded its SMS offering into international markets. Sinch is a strategic supplier for Salesforce’s global SMS delivery and provides enterprise-grade messaging solutions that support Salesforce and its global customer base.
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