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The Westin Diplomat Resort
The Westin Diplomat Resort
Hollywood, Fla.
Oct. 5–8, 2008

 

 
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"The variety of sessions allowed me to customize the conference to meet my needs. In addition, the networking events were invaluable."
American Savings Bank
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Planning is underway for the Vision 2008 breakout sessions. The following are the 2007 sessions, to give you an idea of the breadth and depth of what to expect at the Vision 2008 conference.

Vision Conference 2007 The Westin Diplomat Resort
Hollywood, Fla.
Oct. 5–8, 2008
experian.com/vision

Track 1

Strategies for successful business-to-business lending

Commercial industry trends

Strategies to increase the ROI of your commercial relationships

Many financial institutions are challenged by the flattened yield curve, which has led to eroding net interest margins and increased cost of funds. The economy of the past two years has made it challenging to make the profits that our stakeholders have been counting on - and there does not seem to be much of an economic reprieve on the horizon. You will leave this session with hard-hitting strategies to increase the profitability of your small-business and commercial relationships during this interest-rate sensitive environment.

Maximizing the profitability of your small-business loan portfolio

How is your small-business lending portfolio performing? Find out in this session. The 2007 version of the Small Business Benchmark Report continues to examine trends in small-business lending that are key to maximizing the profitability of your portfolio. This year, the report has been expanded to include benchmark data and analysis from Experian's small-business database. Using results included in the report, you'll be able to compare the performance of your small-business lending portfolio with that of your peers, and the report will provide you with extensive best-practice recommendations to optimize that performance.

Tales from the frontline - Acquiring new business in the new age

Advances in technology are making everyone less patient in waiting for an answer. The Web has raised everyone's expectations - not only for quick turnaround, but also for customer service. In this session, practitioners will relate their experiences in managing the acquisition of new business in this increasingly demanding environment. Discussion will center on staying afloat while meeting the demands of these heightened expectations.

Fraud and risk-management strategies

Separating the business from the small-business owner - Are they one and the same?

Many small businesses look and act like consumers. In fact, many small-business owners utilize their personal credit to fund their business, making the line between business and consumer fuzzy. When examining a small business for potential fraud, there are often clues in both the business and business owner information. As a result, examining the credit of the business as well as the personal credit of the business owner provides a more holistic view in evaluating how a small business will repay its financial obligations. In this session, we will examine case studies and analytics to demonstrate how to mitigate risk for both customer acquisition and portfolio management, as well as review indicators of potential fraud in a small business.

Making the most of a global commercial risk strategy

Managing risk in the new global economy is fraught with unseen challenges not experienced in the domestic U.S. Language barriers, multiple time zones and currencies all combine to make it a very taxing environment for any risk manager. In this session, learn how a major multinational organization is addressing these challenges and many others. From risk modeling to managing data acquisition, this session provides attendees facing similar global challenges with insight into how they can address these conditions.

Profitable portfolio management

Improve profitability of your commercial loan portfolio

Automated portfolio monitoring offers a more proactive way of monitoring business loan portfolios than the traditional review process. It helps maintain excellent credit quality and expedites the loan renewal process. This client case study will explore how a large bank in the Southeast is using portfolio risk monitoring technology to successfully monitor its loan portfolio.

Platform technologies

Incorporating best practices into application processing for credit unions and community banks

Improving the customer experience, while realizing the maximum value from their loan origination system, is critical for credit unions and community banks. Learn how Experian will combine its loan origination technology with industry-leading best practices and consulting to help clients achieve their business goals.

Leveraging technology to drive profitability in your commercial portfolio

Managing portfolio profitability should be job one for any risk manager. It is much cheaper than relying on new customer acquisition to drive profits, and building on existing relationships provides the benefit of dealing with known quantities. In this session, we will deliver an actual case study demonstrating the benefits of combining information, analytics and technology by leveraging advanced reporting techniques in a Web-based environment. Experience how implementation through the Internet of Web- hosted applications is painless and requires minimal IT resources.

Track 2

Growth opportunities in consumer lending

New markets/emerging consumers

Banking opportunities in health care - An avenue to new growth

This session will provide an overview of how the banking and health care industries are converging and how this ongoing convergence is resulting in new opportunities for financial services institutions, improved financial performance of health care providers and reduced health care costs for consumers.

Increasing approvals while managing risk in the emerging consumer market

Historically, consumers not scoreable by traditional credit models are declined by many credit grantors. Experian's new FCRA-compliant Emerging Consumer Score allows credit grantors to increase approvals to this segment while still managing risk.

Who are the underbanked consumers and how do I target them?

This session will provide qualitative and quantitative background on the increasing population of consumers often referred to as the "unbanked, underbanked or undersolicited." We will evaluate the demographic profiles of this undersolicited population of consumers to identify plausible candidates to market to based on various appetites for risk.

Database and targeting tools

Prospect database marketing for mid-tier lenders

Market research companies and analysts project spend on database marketing capabilities to increase in the mid-tier of financial services. Lenders must adapt marketing and acquisition practice to accommodate evolving consumer attitudes toward traditional direct marketing. Smart firms are becoming more data driven and utilizing database marketing tools for more than just direct-marketing campaign development. Learn how to incorporate best-practice techniques into your acquisition efforts and jump ahead of the curve.

Extreme targeting - Move that product

Improve the effectiveness of your marketing efforts by identifying who is looking for credit with Experian's In the Market Model (SM). Understand the key predictors of account opening for various types of credit products.

American consumers: Local, regional and global differences with an economic insight perspective

This session will present Experian's view of the main geographical variations in consumer markets and consumer behaviors across America and what they imply for the financial services industry. Comparisons will be drawn with other global economies such as China and Europe - both "new" and "old."

Internet lead generation and credit monitoring

Benefits of credit monitoring - From employee to customer

This session will provide an overview of consumer credit monitoring from inception through speculation on impending industry trends. The analysis will highlight benefits and misnomers and include the impact of milestone events (affinity marketing, the Internet, ID theft, data breach and the related litigation) of credit monitoring contrasted against current trends.

Next-generation lead generation: The evolution of Internet leads

Learn how important Internet lead development can be to your business by following the progress of an actual case study. This session will walk through the history of an Internet lead and will offer near-term and long-term improvements as well as enhancements to make the most of each and every Internet connection.

Online credit card acquisition through Experian

We will provide an overview of the ProSelectSM product, how it works and an implementation timeline. Furthermore, we will review the marketing plan.

Track 3

Scoring and optimization strategies

Best practices with decisioning tools - From prospecting to collections

Customer contact strategies for collections

A review of industry best practices, alternatives and methodologies of collection customer contact will be provided in this session.

State-of-the-art bankruptcy prediction strategies

With a declining mortgage market coupled with increased delinquencies and foreclosures, bankruptcy risk demands close attention. This session will provide an overview of the current trends and opportunities associated with bankruptcy. A detailed before-and-after reform analysis will be presented with current trending to help predict future bankruptcy risk. Finally, a state-of-the-art solution will be unveiled providing best-in-class bankruptcy prediction and strategies to curb future bankruptcy losses.

Lower your origination costs - Best practices and tools for improved data utilization and data management

Within today's complex decisioning processes, efficiently implementing attributes can be time-consuming and difficult. Typically, organizations understand bureau data and decision calculations, but current tools are cumbersome and do not incorporate best practices for implementing and managing these calculations. Organizations need to focus on improved efficiency and greater self-service. A robust, tool-based approach to data integration allows organizations to reap efficiencies with enhanced implementation. This approach addresses key business issues and provides the opportunity to handle new data sources and functionality not previously available.

Best practices in holistic customer-level decisioning - The next generation in strategy management

Learn how you can leverage customer data across your relationships to minimize risk, increase retention and maximize the profitability of your portfolio. This session will provide clients with an overview of the benefits of customer-level decisioning and communicate best practices used by peers in the retail banking/financial services industry.

Gaining operational efficiencies with Precise IDSM

Many clients initially select Precise ID based on its ability to detect fraud at the point of account opening. During implementation, they realize the breadth of tools and data that streamline their multiple processes, allowing for the reduction in tools and time to process accounts. Learn how Precise ID has helped improve fraud detection within the DDA space while streamlining operations.

ING's recipe for Internet banking success

Within six years, ING DIRECT has become the fourth-largest savings bank in the United States, with more than 4 million customers and more than $60 billion in assets. ING is the 15th-largest global financial institution, with more than 60 million customers worldwide. ING DIRECT’s success can be attributed to reducing operational costs and passing the savings onto its customers. Through intense automation, ING DIRECT’s Orange Mortgage product has been an immense success. This success has been achieved through partnership with various technology vendors ranging from file-management and imaging to Experian’s Transact SMSM for underwriting.

Reg B and credit scoring systems

Best practices for scorecard monitoring with limited data

Many lenders are able to validate their new applicant scorecards on a regular basis, but there may be instances where validating is not possible. These could include small portfolio size, pristine credit performance or system limitations. This session will cover one lender's experience with monitoring its new applicant scorecard with limited data.

Reject inference - Perpetuating past decisions or identifying high risk

Reject inference is the most complicated and intriguing problem in new applicant model development. Many of the available techniques do little other than to perpetuate past decision making, which minimizes risk but may limit aggressive portfolio expansion. This presentation details the use of bureau-based techniques to improve rank-ordering in previously declined populations.

Maintaining regulatory compliance with your credit scoring system

This session will focus on the requirements your credit scoring system needs to meet in order to maintain compliance with Regulation B. We will discuss validation and monitoring recommendations to assist in meeting these requirements, as well as hear client testimony regarding the importance of this in their own organization. We also will review some recent validation results of the client to show how even minor tweaks of a score can make a significant difference in how predictive it may be for the organization.

Risk-based pricing and segmentation strategies

Collection and recovery segmentation strategies

Attend this session to hear a detailed analysis of operational optimization via historical performance analysis, segmentation modeling and effective treatment strategies.

The road to auto loan success is paved with profitable refinance opportunities

Why does the credit union industry charge as much as 389 basis points less for B-Paper auto loans and still have only a 21 percent share of that market? Could it be that rate is not the most important factor? Could the industry charge a higher rate and "price for the risk profitably" and still offer members a chance to refinance and save money? This session will explore this huge opportunity using business intelligence now available to our credit union clients.

Keys to successful customer-level pricing

Financial services institutions operate in a very low-margin environment. With the current economic pressures of an inverted yield curve and the status of the subprime mortgage market, there is renewed focus on differentiated pricing at the customer level that goes beyond the traditional risk-based pricing. Understanding the key ingredients to a successful migration to profit-based pricing is as important as determining the level of sophistication that is appropriate to your organization. Learn how a large retail bank is using optimization techniques to drive customer-level, value-based pricing in order to achieve its strategic business objectives.

Communicating decisions based on risk scores to your credit union members

This session provides lenders recommendations on how to communicate a lending or pricing decision made by using a credit risk score in conjunction with the applicant's behavioral information. Best practices for educating a credit union's lending staff and decision communicators will be discussed along with ways to educate members about their credit behavior. One of Experian's credit union clients will present real-life examples of the implementation and effectiveness of these best practices in its lending environment.

Credit migration

How credit migration predicts the future behavior of your customers and prospects

This session will focus on understanding how changes in consumer credit behavior can be powerful tools for prospecting and account management. For discussion will be current industry trends and how credit migration relates to those trends. A recent migration analysis completed for a Strategic Account will be presented. It focused on home-equity prospecting and cross-selling with follow-up explanation of the concept, analysis strategy and the results. Specific analysis results around the most predictive migrations by industry for both prospecting and risk will be provided along with practical applications and strategic recommendations for client use.

Track 4

Financial services industry trends

Auto Finance

Inside Lane: A look at emerging automotive finance best practices

This session will examine some of the top emerging trends in automotive customer acquisition. This will be followed by a brief introduction of a Business Intelligence engagement followed by detailed case studies presented by the client revealing what was learned, what actions were taken and recent results. The case studies will be based on a specific automotive engagement, but will be applicable to nearly all lending environments.

Under the hood: A look at automotive finance trends

This session will focus on providing key automotive finance trends over the past several years. Particular attention will be spent looking at the subprime automotive market as well as attrition. Trend points include distribution of share, credit scores, loan burdens, delinquency, interest rates, loan terms, geographic trends and the return of leasing. Staying current with the latest automotive trends will help lenders avoid the pitfalls associated with stagnant lending practices.

Mortgage

Finding opportunity in risk - New trends in a new market dynamic

Troubles in the sub prime credit market continue to make headlines. While the extent of the downturn and the resulting industry shakeout remain uncertain, the focus continues to be on the short term. But what are the medium-term prospects for credit markets in general and the sub prime in particular? This session will address these questions while putting the ongoing meltdown in an economic context. Attendees will leave with a view of where consumer credit markets are heading in the next two to three years and will gain knowledge of the economic indicators that will signal a change in outlook. Presenters will explore the state of the credit marketplace after the most recent economic expansion and will highlight significant changes in consumer and lending behaviors across product type and risk sector to provide a foundation for future looking strategies. Key trends, challenges and new solutions will be discussed as lenders plan during a changing economic environment and aggressively compete for new customers and increased market share while managing for portfolio sustainability.

Managing through the U.S. mortgage minefields

The session will go over the origins of the current subprime mortgage and related prime mortgage crisis. It will review the multiple factors contributing to the lack of appropriate risk oversight by originators, underwriters, regulators and rating agencies. The session also will review how credit scores may have understated the relevant risks. Finally, it will review the probable resolutions to the speculative lending in the mortgage space.

Acquisition and attrition behaviors

Cracking the loyalty code - How to maximize profitability by building brand affinity

To combat the chronic cycle of acquisition and attrition driving down return on assets (ROA) for lenders, creating strategies around customer loyalty will be a key goal in a slowing economy. This session will explore the question, "Can you predict loyalty?" and will address the benefits of consumer brand loyalty to increasing return on assets and enterprise value overall. The focus will largely be on the bankcard industry and the cycle of acquisition of new accounts and subsequent attrition rates that keep market share relatively flat despite strong growth year over year. Additionally, an overview of the larger issue of customer management and retention across portfolios within an organization will be discussed as a major component to building brand loyalty and enterprise value.

Fraud trends and tools

Top credit risk and fraud trends: How preparing now will save you later

What are the top trends emerging in credit risk and fraud? What will credit risk and fraud executives be focused on in the next 12 to18 months? Understanding the top trends in credit risk and fraud will help you prepare and stay ahead of the market. Hear selected case studies and examples of how other industry leaders are anticipating these critical trends.

Win the battle against application fraud - New solutions for today's marketplace

This joint session with one of Experian's strategic partners, Fiserv, will provide best practices for combating fraud during the credit application process. Learn how to increase revenues and reduce losses by combining the latest advances in fraud detection analytics and technology with enhanced data to pinpoint fraud at point of sale.

Nonprime fraud detection and management - How to differentiate good credit risk from fraud

Targeting the subprime market requires a unique approach to fraud prevention and risk assessment. Learn how to identify true fraud and credit risk, automate approval and fraud review processes, and other best practices.

High-performance Knowledge-Based Authentication

In this session, our knowledge-based authentication subject matter experts will present how to optimize your KBA-based strategy to align with business goals and case studies illustrating what results clients have achieved and how they got there. We will discuss common issues seen today and key drivers (such as pass rates), options to address question selection (weighting, mix of questions, etc.), score validation analysis, benchmark/peer group performance and ongoing performance monitoring.

Retention and risk strategies

Credit repair: Authorized users you wouldn't authorize

This session will discuss the recent trend for new Internet companies claiming to boost credit scores through credit score "augmentation," which occurs when a person with less-than-good credit pays to have legitimate accounts - belonging to other people - added to his credit file. The scope of the problem for lenders and consumers will be discussed along with preventative measures.

Track 5

Global expansion - Where do you want to go next?

Europe

Business practices and case studies to help you manage business development and credit risk in Europe

Explore and benchmark consumer credit risk lending in Europe:

  1. Overview of the market trends for the mature economies and the developing ones
  2. Financial products and distribution channels in Europe
  3. Business practices: strengths and weaknesses
  4. Data availability and tools to manage credit risk
  5. Case studies

Mexico

Mexico, a reality for cross-border opportunities

Mexico is a growing market worldwide and for many of our clients it is their #1 market in terms of revenue outside of the United States (Amex, Citibank, Metlife, BBVA, HSBC). Experian® has been preparing to expand its capacities in the region, especially in Brazil and Mexico. We are now ready to offer our clients a range of services, with local support. Opportunities for global clients with Experian in Mexico will be:

  • Marketing Services, with access to new and broad sources information
  • Decision Analytics
  • Progress on Experian credit bureau activities

South America

Exploring Synergies: Serasa, Informarketing and Decision Analytics

This session will discuss how to improve your business decisions through the synergy of solutions provided by Experian with Serasa, Informarketing and Decision Analytics across the breadth of the credit cycle.

Serasa is the fourth-largest credit bureau in the world and the largest credit bureau outside the United States and owns the largest consumer and commercial credit bureau in Brazil. Informarketing is a leading provider of direct-marketing services, offering marketing data, services and analytical tools. Decision Analytics is a global leader in credit analytics, decision support software and fraud solutions. These three parts of Experian can provide deep analytical, database and software capabilities to power your business decisions.

Canada

Credit without borders: Innovation in Canada

With feedback from clients in Canada and around the world, Experian is building innovative solutions for the Canadian market. This session will review the progress of the credit bureau in Canada and how the innovative solutions and techniques under development could improve operations for clients.