I have owned several software companies, and development is always more costly and takes longer than expected" said Kirk Chewning, partner at Cane Bay Partners. "Partnering with GDS Link allowed us to avoid the risk, time and resources of in-house development and focus on serving our clients. The company provides the most comprehensive, configurable solution that addresses mitigating risk for any of our services" continued Chewning
Meta Payment Systems
Meta Payment SystemsŪ was developing a unique loan product with a very narrow time-to-market window and needed a sophisticated decision engine.
Our required solution had to support multiple custom scoring models, retrieve data from credit reporting agencies, process a complicated underwriting logic, and have front-end web screens to process applications and exceptions, all to provide real-time decisions to literally thousands of end-users. GDS Link and Dataview360 exceeded our highest expectations and demands. Plus, throughout the product development, the GDS Link team provided exceptional support and truly became valued partners in our success.
Kabbage, Inc.
Kathryn Petralia, strategy and operations director for Kabbage, said, "With more than eight million online sellers in the marketplace, we required solid processes to help us accurately identify which customers will be the most profitable. With DataView360, we gain access to flexible, creative underwriting and sound reporting mechanisms to best understand our distinctive market and enable us to make sound business decisions"
RBS Worldpay Enlists GDS Link to Enhance Portfolio Segmentation
RBS WorldPay secures a license of GDS Link's flagship solution, DataView360™ to more efficiently adapt and respond to regularly changing trends in fraud. With DataView360, RBS is able to implement and manage their fraud-based rules for several business functions including screening for fraudulent transactions.
African Bank, South Africa's largest micro-lender, has licensed GDS Link's DataView360™ to manage its current and future risk management requirements. With GDS Link's flagship solution, DataView360, the bank can now aggregate multiple data sources for a more comprehensive assessment of customers, as well as ensure a stable real-time transactional inquiry process.
GDS Link and Scoring Solutions Deliver Joint Solution to Lending Market
GDS Link announced a strategic alliance with Scoring Solutions™, an Atlanta-based analytical consulting company focused primarily on the credit industry. The relationship merges Scoring Solutions' complex scoring models, derived from its extensive credit attribute library, with GDS Link's ability to enable the rapid implementation of these models through its flagship product, DataView360™.
GDS and Pattern Recognition Enter into a Reseller Agreement
Reseller Agreement between GDS Link and Pattern Recognition allows custom fraud models developed by Pattern Recognition to be deployed through GDS Link's core technology platform, DataView360™, and its new merchant acquirer solution, DataView360-Detect.
Meta Payment Systems selects GDS Link to meet its Risk Management Requirements
Meta Payment Systems, a leading provider of prepaid, credit, debit and emerging payments solutions, selects GDS Link's DataView360™ to support the intricate underwriting of its lending programs.
GDS Link featured in American Banker's Spring Supplement
GDS Link is featured in this year's American Banker's Spring supplement entitled Risk Management; Improving Practice and Policy. Paul Greenwood's article Optimizing Risk Strategies through Accelerated Implement Techniques can be found on page 9 of the Supplement. To register to view a digital format of the supplement please go to the following link: http://www.americanbanker.com/subscribe/lead.html?product_id=1016698
2010
13 Apr
Cane Bay Partners Selects GDS Link to meet its Risk Management Requirements
Cane Bay Partners VI, a St. Croix, V.I.-based consulting and portfolio management company, has selected GDS Link's technology for the enhancement of its scorecard management processes. After an extensive search process, Cane Bay found that GDS Link's flagship product, DataView360™, offered the most functionality to effectively support its consumer lending risk management needs.
GDS announced at the Merchant Acquirers' Committee (MAC) 2010 Conference the launch of its new offering, DataView360 Detect, which is designed to satisfy many of the unique compliance and risk management requirements of merchant acquirers and ISOs.
Technology, Scoring Strategies to Boost Collections
Paul Greenwood provides insight on the use of alternative data sources, analytics and technology to boost collections performance. Dale Williams, President of Teletack, Inc. and Canh Tran, President of Pattern Recognitions System, provide additional insight. To read more click on the link below:
GDS Link Proposes Remedy for Forthcoming UDAP Changes
The proposed Unfair Deceptive Acts and Practices Legislation (UDAP), in its current form, will have a significant impact on the way credit card issuers manage the risk of their existing and future card portfolios. A key aspect of the proposed regulations will impact an issuer's ability to re-price new and existing balances thereby reducing their portfolio yield and associated profitability. With reduced flexibility on the back-end, the need to strengthen risk management practices on the front-end will be even more critical as the card industry moves forward.
Legacy loan origination systems currently deployed at many financial service organizations do not provide the flexibility to easily implement new credit scoring that may be required to facilitate enhanced risk management policies necessary to offset reduced pricing flexibility once an account is booked. In addition, with the introduction of a wide range of new data sources over the past several years, reliance solely on the three traditional credit bureaus may not provide lenders with a complete view on a consumer's capacity to pay. Enhanced front-end lending models, should, at a minimum, include testing of alternative data sources to see if this unique information can add lift to new scoring models.
DataView360™ by GDS Link, (www.gdslink.com) was designed to provide financial service organizations with a flexible tool kit which allows for easy integration with any third party or internal data source, the ability to easily develop custom data attributes and the rapid implementation of in house developed or third party custom scorecard models. In addition, DataView360 supports complex process flows, unlimited champion challenge strategies and risk policies based on portfolio segmentation, product type and other key market drivers.
A robust internal facility for performing retrospective analysis of business rules objects and strategies is also supported allowing your risk management staff to test models and new risk policies prior to deployment. From within DataView360, you can simply invoke the Retro-Scoring engine and recall archived credit bureau, application and/or internal system data for testing alternative business scenarios. The Retro-Scoring engine gives an organization the ability to validate new rules objects,credit bureau attributes and custom scorecards using real transactional data, but free of consequence in a non-production setting.
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GDS's DataView360™ was developed with the recognition that financial service organizations have made large investments in their existing lending platforms and the effort to replace these solutions would be very labor intensive and quite expensive. DataView360 was designed to be a "bolt-on" to your existing lending platform providing your organization with all the feature richness of our solution while at the same time increasing the return on investment of your legacy solutions.
2009
2 Feb
GDS Press Release
DataView360™ Revolutionizes the Implementation of Custom Scoring Models
These are times that try bank balance sheets - and test their credit scoring abilities. But adapting to new economic realities can be difficult if the scoring formulas are hard-wired into a legacy database system.
To make it easier, faster and cheaper to create custom scorecards, Dallas-based GDS Link, LLC has come out with DataView360, which uses Web services instead of traditional software, deploys quickly - and costs as little as a tenth of traditional scorecard systems.
According to a GDS Link survey of 100 banks conducted in May and June of 2008, 71 percent used reports from the bureaus instead of doing their own custom scoring - but only 22 percent of the banks were satisfied with these generic scores.
DataView360 takes just a couple of weeks to configure and a couple of days to install-rather than the six to twelve months of traditional deployments, says GDS president and founder Paul Greenwood. And further changes take place within the system's easy-to-use interface.
"It changes the dynamics of what was traditionally a very hard process to do-custom scoring," says Greenwood. "You no longer have to rely on your IT group. The business analyst or credit risk manager is able to control this with his desktop."
That's been the experience of Craig Johnson, director of portfolio management of Sioux Falls-based Meta Payment Systems, a division of Iowa's MetaBank.
"As a matter of fact, the person at Meta who controls that is myself," he says. "I can go in and change the score cutoffs. It's very simple to do - it takes no programming experience at all."
Meta configured the system to combine the results of two different custom score cards, he says. Now he can go in and, for each combination of scores from the two scorecards, change the approval decision, the credit line granted, and the cutoff points for the two scores.
The company, which previously focused primarily on prepaid cards, plans to use this for a new program for small-balance personal loans. Meta expects to see hundreds of thousands of applications come in over the course of a couple of months, according to Johnson.
Other vendors in this space are also moving toward Web services, says TowerGroup analyst Bobbie Britting, but not everyone is there yet. "It's a mixed bag," she says.
But there's nothing at all wrong with a credit scoring technology that's better, faster, and cheaper.
"What lenders need to be able to do is condense the data acquisition and analysis process and timeframes, finding shifting patterns in consumer behavior and create new custom scores," Britting says.
Scoring Solutions in conjunction with GDS Link, introduced their product Score360TM, a state-of-the-art attribute interface which includes 1,000 tri-bureau credit attributes. "Using DataView360 to enable the use of our attributes with our client's, accelerates their implementation, which reduces integration and development costs and allows our clients to recognize their return on investment in weeks not months." Fran Lyons, a Principal of Scoring Solutions.
GDS Link delivers its enabling technology in both standalone software packages and as a managed service. There are no required expenditures for software implementation or professional services; there are no additional licenses to buy and there are none of the functional limitations found in many service bureau offerings. Most scoring/ attribute-calculation engines, for example, cannot be licensed separately from massive loan origination or enterprise rules management systems. GDS Link software is expressly architected to be modular, giving you the ability to license only the functionality that you need. You are never limited to pre-packaged attributes or required to endure large customization efforts.
The system is expressly intended for deployment around the globe-across multiple platforms, languages, industries and cultures. The central basis of all design and functional elements is around flexibility, accuracy and speed.
Powerful filtering logic cuts through the vast universe of confusing and disparate output data elements, such as the various flags, indicators and exceptions returned from the credit bureaus. Consolidation through reusable scripts, attribute libraries and exclusion logic eliminates redundant tasks for a more streamlined user experience. The system allows customers to create and maintain their own library of filters that are used for data normalization across any data source.
From development to testing to deployment, ease-of-use is critical to the total customer experience. In addition to intuitive functional design, DataView360™ provides facilities for interactive, localized testing. The system extends to a user complete command over data element creation, testing and validation-promoting confidence and ensuring accuracy prior to implementation.
A GDS Link solution delivers all of the following:
Versatility. An off-the-shelf, data-agnostic and platform-independent system requiring no expensive customization or long development times to implement.
Modularity. License only the system tools that you need.
Scalability. DataView360™ is highly scalable, robust and fault tolerant.
Confidence. Validate all data constructs with confidence in your own development testing "sandbox" before promoting changes to production.
Flexibility. You can deploy the DataView360™ engine as on site software or as a hosted service managed by our team. The engine comes in both Java and Windows versions.
Ease-of-use. The software is easy to use, support and maintain. Intuitive design of the user environment is intended to be attractive to both technology and business user groups.
Global Reach. DataView360™ is language, currency and data source independent, allowing the same application to be utilized across the globe.
Affordability. Simple product pricing, since there is no expensive overhead usually associated with supporting highly customized solutions. In most cases, there are no initial customization fees and no ongoing vendor change order expense. GDS will provide training and consultation and assist the clients to do the work themselves.
Power. Easy conversion of SAS (PMML Compliant) script allowing for even quicker deployment of advanced business rules into a production environment.
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