As financial institutions continue to expand their use of artificial intelligence across lending and risk operations, strong model governance has become just as important as building the models themselves. We are therefore proud to be recognized by Chartis Research as the winner in the Model Risk Management Environment category in its STORM Quantitative Analytics50 2026 report.
This recognition highlights our commitment to helping financial institutions accelerate AI innovation while strengthening transparency, accountability and regulatory compliance.
According to Vijay Mehta, Chief AI Officer at Experian, governing AI with the same level of rigor used to build it is becoming increasingly important as organizations move AI into production.
“Financial institutions need to scale AI without sacrificing transparency, accountability or regulatory compliance,” said Mehta. “Our vision is to provide an integrated agentic platform that enables organizations to operationalize trusted AI with confidence, helping them move from building models to deploying trusted AI at enterprise scale.”
The recognition reflects our approach to model risk management through the Experian Ascend Platform™, which helps organizations govern analytical and AI models from development through deployment and ongoing monitoring. The platform brings together trusted data, feature engineering, model operations, decision-making and risk analytics with such capabilities as model registry, automated validation, explainability, fairness testing, drift detection and audit-ready documentation. Together, these capabilities help organizations adopt AI while maintaining transparency, traceability and regulatory oversight.
The recognition comes as AI adoption continues to grow across financial services. According to Experian research, 60% of respondents say they are moving toward architectures that enable AI agents and systems to work seamlessly across tools and data sources, while 86% say transparency in analytics and insights is highly valuable for improving decision-making.
Chartis also recognized the strength of the Experian Ascend Platform™.
“Experian’s strong showing in our STORM Quantitative Analytics50 ranking, and its Model Risk Management Environment solution award, reflect the strength of Ascend, its advanced analytics development and management environment,” said Sid Dash, Chief Researcher at Chartis.
As organizations move from AI experimentation to enterprise scale, this recognition reinforces Experian’s continued investment in helping financial institutions build trusted AI with the governance, transparency and oversight needed to make confident analytical decisions.