Farewells
For those who don’t already know, Alex Lazarov, CEO Creditinfo Solutions, has recently parted with the company on good terms due to personal reasons. We would like to send our best wishes to Alex and wish him well in any new adventures and hope he is able to return to the Creditinfo Family in the future.
Supporting a Better Understanding of Credit Risk Management in Tanzania
Creditinfo Tanzania, in cooperation with the Creditinfo Academy, recently delivered a 2 day “Introduction to Risk Management” training course in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania.
The interactive workshop took place at the Ledger Plaza Beach Hotel on 21st and 22nd October 2014 with attendees including senior bankers, micro finance and other professionals responsible for maintaining top quality loan portfolios, identifying risk management opportunities and designing financial solutions for clients in an evolving credit environment.
Out with the old and in with the new
The offices of Creditinfo Solutions in Prague, Czech Republic are currently undergoing a major refurbishment to enhance the working environment for our employees. Creditinfo staff are highly valued and we want to ensure that they look forward to coming to work each day by improving their working conditions. We are investing in improving our facilities to boost morale and to create a work space that will promote more ideas, creativity and innovation throughout the team.
Creditinfo Malta goes Pink
Creditinfo Malta wishes to thank Ms. Vella Wallbank for her presence, and urges everyone to join in the Pink October Malta Campaign and raise awareness of the cause and to go get checked as it could save your life!
WCCRC 2014 Dubai
Networking and signing new deals
This month Reynir, Almar, Kiddi, Sammi, Seth and Tomas attended WCCRC 2014 in DubaiReynir, Sammi, Seth and Almar were “photo bombing”! One way of getting your face known!
The World Consumer Credit Reporting Conference (WCCRC) 2014 www.wccrc2014.com is a three day event where senior executives from credit bureaus around the globe as well as credit card companies, lenders and government officials attend to discuss issues that have an impact on the industry. Approximately 250 delegates from over 60 countries attend this Conference. This year was the first time in the MENA region.
Our team not only attended the conference and networked with top industry experts and influencers, but also arranged private meetings with what we hope will be potential partners. Watch this space!
4th Annual Central Asia & Caucasus Microfinance Forum
Last week, Paul Randall, Chairman of Creditinfo Georgia & Director of Business Development Creditinfo International and Alexander Gomiashvili, CEO Creditinfo Georgia, attended the 4th Annual Central Asia and Caucasas Microfinance Forum in Tblisi, Georgia.
The Forum focused on the main opportunities and challenges for investments in the region, as well as, on the main issues in responsible finance. Paul Randall chaired the Forum and also delivered a presentation to the many attendees from the industry.
Product Development – doing the right thing the right way
Today, Brynja Baldursdottir, Director of Sales & Product Development, Creditinfo Iceland, delivered a presentation to the Creditinfo Academy entitled “Product Development – Doing the right thing the right way”.
To read Brynja’s biography please click here
You can watch the video recording, click here
And for the PowerPoint presentation click here
Congratulations to Chris Sanders, Business Change Partners
We’d like to send our congratulations to Mr. Chris Sanders from Business Change Partners.
Chris was announced the winner of the CCR Contribution for Contribution to the Credit Industry Credit Excellence Award at the Gala Dinner last night.
Commiserations to GB Group plc who along with Creditinfo were also finalists in this category.
CCR-i will be posting all other winners and finalists for the other awards on their website soon.
We’d also like to thank CCR-i for their excellent organisation of this event and to the judges who we know put a lot of time and effort into reviewing the hundreds of lengthy applications.
Creditinfo invited by IFC to work to expand access to credit
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and Bank Al-Maghrib, the Central Bank of Morocco, organised the 5th international symposium to train African and MENA central banks and financial regulators on financial infrastructure and risk management that will help smaller businesses gain access to finance and boost economic growth.
Creditinfo, by invitation of IFC, along with other invitees including senior personnel from Central Banks, lenders’ association, doors, MFI associations, Private Credit Bureau, banking supervisors and policy makers met towards the end of September in Rabat, Morocco. Representatives were principally from Africa and the Middle East, but also from Central Asia, particularly Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan and a few participants were from Asia, including Indonesia and Philippines. The four-day event brought together some 40 international experts and 150 attendees from 35 central banks and 50 countries.
Congratulations
A baby boy for the Carter family.
Congratulations to Andrew Carter and his wife who recently moved back to the UK from Tanzania. They have added to the Carter family….. A baby boy, Max, arrived by C section on 2nd October at 7.5 lb. Mother and baby doing well. Oh, and Andrew is auditioning for ‘Scrubs’ soon!
