SAN JOSE, Calif., May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

HIGHLIGHTS:

• Guidepost Solutions will offer FICO^® TONBELLER^® Siron^® Anti-Financial Crime Solutions to its clients worldwide
• FICO TONBELLER's Siron^® solutions address money laundering, tax evasion, know-your-customer and other compliance requirements
• Guidepost Solutions provides compliance and risk management expertise and services to companies across multiple vertical markets worldwide

Analytic software firm FICO and risk consultancy Guidepost Solutions LLC today announced that they have entered into a partnership to help provide companies worldwide with a complete suite of anti-financial crime solutions. In this new agreement, Guidepost Solutions will offer the FICO^® TONBELLER^® Siron^® Anti-Financial Crime Solutions for anti-money laundering, regulatory compliance and tax compliance with services developed for its clients around the world, beginning with efforts in the U.S. and France.

More information: http://www.guidepostsolutions.com/investigations/big-data/

"The FICO TONBELLER integrated suite of products fills a gap in the market for global companies with diverse business models and changing regulatory needs," stated Guidepost Solutions Chief Executive Officer Julie Myers Wood. "Working in partnership, Guidepost Solutions and FICO are uniquely positioned to build effective compliance programs that provide clients with a 360-degree view of their customers and enhance their ability to meet regulatory compliance requirements."

"The consultants at Guidepost Solutions are respected throughout the risk industry," said Torsten Mayer, vice president for compliance solutions at FICO. "They understand compliance from multiple perspectives, and many have served as independent compliance consultants or corporate integrity monitors of Fortune 500 companies. Our technology will help their clients manage a rapidly changing regulatory landscape at a lower cost and with fewer staff."

Guidepost Solutions routinely assists clients in designing, developing, implementing and testing compliance programs. Its professionals have been providing independent compliance consulting and monitoring services for more than three decades for public and private companies, including Fortune 500 companies and global entities; domestic and international banks; law firms; governmental and quasi-governmental agencies; and not-for-profit organizations. They have had numerous court appointments and other appointments to monitor the conduct of organizations and have received assignments from, or with the approval of, several regulatory agencies.

The FICO^® TONBELLER^® Siron^® Anti-Financial Crime Solutions suite consists of flexible and highly integrated software modules for anti-money laundering, tax compliance, counter-terrorism financing, end-to-end know your customer (KYC) and other issues to provide a risk-based approach out-of-the-box. The Siron suite is part of FICO's portfolio of solutions for fraud and financial crime, which also includes the FICO^® Falcon^® Fraud Platform, protecting more than 2.6 billion payment cards worldwide. FICO acquired TONBELLER in early 2015.

About Guidepost Solutions LLC
In a world where change is certain, experience is the best protection. Guidepost Solutions offers global investigations, compliance and monitoring, and security and technology consulting solutions for clients in a wide range of industries. Our expert team provides leadership and strategic guidance to address critical client needs across the globe. With headquarters in New York, Guidepost Solutions maintains offices in key markets including Chicago; Dallas; Honolulu; London; Los Angeles; Oakland; Palm Beach; Sacramento; San Francisco; Seattle; Singapore; and Washington, D.C.; and has resources across the globe. Experience guides us. Solutions define us. For more information, please visit www.guidepostsolutions.com.

About FICO
FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956 and based in Silicon Valley, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 165 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 100 countries do everything from protecting 2.6 billion payment cards from fraud, to helping people get credit, to ensuring that millions of airplanes and rental cars are in the right place at the right time.

Learn more at www.fico.com.

Join the conversation at https://twitter.com/fico & http://www.fico.com/en/blogs/

FICO, TONBELLER, Falcon and Siron are trademarks or registered trademarks of Fair Isaac Corporation in the US and other countries.

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SOURCE FICO

For FICO: Jeffrey Scott, +1.408.348.3651, jscott@iq360inc.com; Or For Guidepost Solutions: Patricia Gambale, +1.212.817.6726, pgambale@guidepostsolutions.com