Telecommunications Providers Choose FICO Scores for Securitization
HIGHLIGHTS:
- FICO is seeing increased strong demand from telecommunications providers for the FICO® Score.
- The scores are being used in the securitization of equipment installment plans.
- The FICO® Score is the standard measure of US consumer credit risk.
- Telecommunications usage opens up a new, multi-million-dollar market for the FICO Score.
Analytic software leader FICO today reported that it is seeing strong demand by telecommunications providers for the FICO® Score to use in securitization. FICO has created a program that helps carriers and other participants provide the risk assessment that is a key ingredient in creating bonds backed by equipment installment plans, which let customers pay off their mobile device in installments.
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"Telecommunication providers are increasingly realizing that — at a nominal expense — they can capture the many benefits of adopting the industry-standard FICO Score," said
Under the new program, a mobile provider that purchases FICO Scores on its customers whose equipment installment plans are being securitized can share summary statistics regarding the FICO Score distribution with third parties as part of the securitization performance documentation made available to rating agencies and investors. Telecommunication providers can also structure the purchase of these FICO Scores for use in their risk management decisions at origination or account review. Such FICO Scores are also eligible for the FICO® Score Open Access program, which allows credit grantors to share the FICO Scores they rely on for risk management with their customers at no additional fee from FICO.
The program is driving strong interest from multiple market participants in an industry that, until now, has not utilized generally available credit scores. "The low cost and strong benefits make choosing the industry-standard FICO Score over other scores an easy decision," Wehmann said.
The FICO® Score is the standard measure of US consumer credit risk, and is used in more than 20 countries. More than 10 billion FICO Scores are purchased each year by lenders. Besides FICO Scores, FICO also offers risk management and marketing solutions to telecommunications providers, and works with leading providers worldwide.
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