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Recently there has been one area of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) reform that has gained support from Republicans and Democrats in Congress, as well as the CFPB Director himself: ensuring the confidentiality of privileged information that financial institutions provide to the bureau. Current law ensures that when a financial institution turns over documents containing information covered by the attorney-client privilege to a specific list of regulators — the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. or the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — its right to privilege will not be waived. This guarantees that the confidential information will not be viewed by third parties, including other regulators, who could use it to mount a legal case. However, the law that created the CFPB failed to add the bureau to the list of regulators exempted from privilege. In March, the CFPB announced a proposed rule to formalize protections for privileged information provided to the bureau, whether it is from banks or non-banks.  The proposal also seeks to clarify that the transfer of privileged information to other Federal or state regulators does not waive the financial institution’s right to privilege.  Congress has also been active on the issue.  This spring the House unanimously approved legislation (H.R. 4014) to legally ensure that privilege is not waived for documents submitted to the CFPB.  Similar legislation has been introduced in the Senate and is likely to be brought to the floor soon. Photo: Shutterstock

We recently announced the availability of PowerCurve, our new decision management software portfolio, which helps organisations manage and grow their portfolios by improving the way they use information to make customer decisions. PowerCurve builds on more than 30 years of experience that Experian has providing organizations across the globe with expert decisioning tools. It is equipped with some of the most advanced decision analytics capabilities in the market today. Advanced strategy and customer management As a flexible decision management technology platform, PowerCurve offers a unified set of software products that make the process of creating, implementing and improving customer decisions simpler, more efficient and more user-friendly. The first two PowerCurve software products — PowerCurve Strategy Management and PowerCurve Customer Management — are available today. PowerCurve Strategy Management enables organisations to quickly and easily develop and deliver customer acquisition, portfolio and debt management decisions. It gives business users the ability to easily design, test, execute, and continuously improve decision strategies. The software uses advanced analytics to help users transform data into knowledge of the potential revenue and risk associated with each and every customer interaction. PowerCurve Customer Management allows businesses to improve the profitability of customer relationships by optimising cross-sell and up-sell offers, improving loyalty and managing risk. The software creates a comprehensive view of each customer relationship across an organisation’s business and product lines, to more accurately quantify each customer’s potential lifetime value, and drive actions to develop and nurture it. Clients can choose to install the software within their own IT environments, integrating the capabilities they need in order to manage costs and leverage their existing software investments. Alternatively, PowerCurve can support delivery of Experian’s analytics and decisions in a secure, hosted environment within the Experian firewall at one of its state-of-the-art data centers around the world. Download our free whitepaper to learn more about PowerCurve.

For those of you who did not attend Experian’s Vision Conference this week, you may have missed an opportunity to learn how to drive profitable growth by leveraging the PowerCurve software to make accurate, analytics-based decisions quickly, efficiently and repeatedly to acquire, manage and grow your customer relationships. However, it’s not too late for you to catch up. The first two PowerCurve software products you need to know about — PowerCurve Strategy Management and PowerCurve Customer Management — are available today. And offer some of the most advanced decision analytics capabilities in the market today. Here's a brief overview of each product: PowerCurve Strategy Management — enables organizations to quickly and easily develop and deliver customer acquisition, portfolio and debt management decisions. It does this by giving business users the ability to easily design, test, execute and continuously improve decision strategies. The software makes it almost effortless for users to harness the power of data and transform it, using advanced analytics, into knowledge of the potential revenue and risk associated with each and every customer interaction. PowerCurve Customer Management — allows businesses to create highly profitable customer relationships by optimizing cross-sell and up-sell offers, improving loyalty and managing risk. The software accomplishes this by creating a comprehensive view of each customer relationship, across an organization’s business and product lines, to more accurately quantify each customer’s potential lifetime value and drive actions to develop and nurture it. To learn more about PowerCurve, go to www.experian.com/powercurve. Also, make sure you attend Experian Vision next year, so you don’t miss these growth opportunities going forward.