Players of the Month – Creditinfo Iceland
They recently moved offices without disruption to their services and working day. They have moved to a lower floor in the same building so the address and contact information remains the same. The recent growth and future development plans require them to have a larger space, but the key reason for the move was to ensure everyone is together on the same floor, rather than spread over 2 floors as before and also to improve their working environment.
Players of the month: Credit Bureau Expansion Team
We wanted to acknowledge the efforts of this newly formed team for getting their act together so quickly. In just a few months of being established, they have set up new effective processes and some rather efficient methods of communication in order to be able to put our credit bureau expansion plans into action.
In addition to their extensive knowledge & experience in their fields, is their proactive attitude and sense of accountability. No one wants to let the team down, so everything smoothly moves along the process chain and they get the job done on time. Equally, they all have a great sense of humour (some may call it weird!), but it obviously helps them to get on better and boosts them when facing more challenging times. Oh yes, and let’s not forget, great leadership from Kiddi too!
Players of the month: Cape Verde
This month saw the launch of the new office in Cape Verde. As you know Dirce Varela recently joined the family as CEO. For the launch, Creditinfo Cape Verde (CICV) held a 3 hour workshop at the Auditório de Caixa Económica de Cabo Verde on the 15th July.
Dirce opened the launch with an introduction to Creditinfo and then we welcomed Mr. Carlos Burgo, the Governor of the Central Bank of Cape Verde www.bcv.cv and Mr Amilcar Monteiro, the General Secretary of Câmara do Comércio Industria e Serviços de Sotavento (CCIS) www.cciss.cv. Mr. Burgo described the role of the Central Bank in licensing and the supervision of credit bureaus and Mr. Monteiro spoke about the role of the credit bureau in the access to credit for SMEs and Microfinance.
Players of the Month: Samuel White & Paul Randall
This month we’d like to recognise Sam and Paul for all the air miles they have recently clocked up.
Seriously though, their jobs may sound very glamorous, travelling all over the globe to meet the different operational sites and share best practice within the Group and meeting new / potential clients etc. The reality is, these guys can be getting out of bed at an unearthly hour, travelling for 20 hrs or more, delivering presentations having only had a few hours sleep, living out of a suitcase, arriving home in the middle of the night….. and don’t forget they are leaving their loved ones at home.
There are a number of other people within Creditinfo who equally travel a lot promoting Creditinfo around the globe and can equate with the trials and tribulations of travelling. We’d like to thank you guys too, you know who you are!Player of the Month: Lithuania
Creditinfo Lithuania
These guys are continually coming up with innovative (and fun) ideas.Have you checked out your social media credit score yet?Creditinfo Lithuania have developed a social credit score that predicts credit risk by user‘s data from Facebook. The score depends generally from profile information, activity, communication culture and friends information.For example, the score is influenced by “likes“, groups you follow, phone type, also honesty – adding personal information and other variables that were identified as significant based on econometric modeling.Creditinfo Lithuania presented the score at a press conference last week and received a lot of attention from media channels including TV and radio.
Player of the Month: Kazakhstan
With the support of the Association of Financiers of Kazakhstan, 1CB Kazakhstan recently hosted a very successful event in Almaty dedicated to discussing the introduction of legal restrictions on the leverage ratio (KDN) and limiting growth of unsecured lending, which entered into force in Kazakhstan from 1 April 2014. The relevance of the event was confirmed by the interest of more than one hundred representatives from the banks, the National Bank of Kazakhstan, financial institutions and the business media.
Ruslan Omarov, CEO, 1CB, Kanat Khalilov, Senior Risk Manager, 1CB and Paul Randall, Business Development Director, Creditinfo International spoke at the event. You can watch a recording of Paul & Kanat’s presentations on the internet which they kindly repeated for the Creditinfo Academy.
Players of the month: Iceland
Congratulations everyone at Creditinfo Iceland.
Four years ago, Creditinfo Iceland introduced a new product: Strongest in Iceland.
A detailed analysis is carried out annually highlighting Icelandic companies that have achieved top marks for their strength and stability in the market place.
Players of the month: Vytautas Pociūnas and Team Lithuania
Individual Player
Congratulations to Vytautas Pociūnas, Sales Manager, Creditinfo Lithuania, who entered the “Millionaire’s Club” after reaching one million litas sales through his successful career at the company.
Vytautas has worked at Creditinfo for four years. He is 4th Creditinfo Lithuania employee who achieved one million litas sales.
Among his clients are the biggest Lithuanian brewery Švyturys-Utenos alus (belongs to Carlsberg), shipyard company Vakarų laivų gamyklos grupė which belongs to BLRT Grupp concern, and other well known companies in Lithuania.
Team Player
Congratulations everyone at Creditinfo Lithuania for:
- Being the best bloggers on the intranet
- Regularly supporting and promoting CI Lithuania through not only the usual marketing methods but also by entering various competitions whether it be football, best employer of the year (I love my Creditinfo), Miss Office Lithuania etc
- Great team spirit – shown by the various team building activities they participate in each month from sports contests, golfing days, dressing up is a favourite and there is usually a beer or cocktail involved too. You can watch a video of their antics (which was created for I love my Creditinfo) – click here to download and watch.
- And they still find the time to generate a lot of sales and profit for the business!
Keep up the great work guys!
Players of the Month: Tanzania and Malta
You always remember your first!
November saw the team in Tanzania sell their first International Report. Well done, to Andrew Carter, Dave Kahwa, Edwin Urasa,Shane Moldenhauer & Pamela Uriyo, the first of many we’re sure!
Teamwork pays off
Congratulations to Remy Damato, Melissa Pace & Antonio Di Bari, for already breaking all records regarding the creation of D&B reports. Even with another month to go, they are already 10% up on last year in not only the number of reports but also on the total revenue. This is big indication on the quality and speed in which these reports are delivered by the team. There has to be something said for their teamwork as they also won the bridge building contest at the last Values Seminar in Malta.
From the photo, we’d advise them not to swap their day jobs for construction!
Players of the month: Hákon Stefánsson and IBCH Ukraine
Individual Player – Hákon Stefánsson
As such, our very own Beckham look alike, Hákon Stefánsson was on prime time TV in Iceland – you can watch the clip athttp://www.ruv.is/neytendamal/betri-vextir-fyrir-betri-pappira(starts at 14:48mins to 21mins). You’ll see he looks particular relaxed in front of the camera, so we expect the call from SKY SPORTS to do a stand in for David will come soon.
Team Players – IBCH Ukraine
Jón Jóhannesson and the team in Ukraine have had an excellent month with more than an 80% increase in Sales and a massive 247% increase in EBITDA. If you still don’t know what EBITDA is, it’s how much profit a company makes with its present assets and its operations on the products it produces and sells.
