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Podio.com
Duke Opsahl from Creditinfo Kenya demonstrates www.podio.com
See how Duke and his colleagues have set up a CRM application using Podio.
Read Duke’s bio and find his contact details here
Link to video : http://youtu.be/-CBEsIuw9zY
Creditinfo and Da Afghanistan Bank sign multi year SLA
Creditinfo continues to successfully develop and grow the project for the central bank, Da Afghanistan Bank (DAB). Earlier this month, adding to the existing project, DAB contracted with Creditinfo a further multi-year Service Level Agreement (SLA) where Creditinfo’s expert team of programmers, analysts and consultants, will continue to service and maintain the DAB’s credit bureau solution, CBS5. Creditinfo’s CBS5 system is fully integrated into DABs credit information and risk management processes. Continue reading »
May the "flop" be with you….
May the “flop” be with you….
On Tuesday April 21st, there was this year’s first poker tournament at CIS. This event was part of the ongoing “Almar’s Amateur Poker Tour 2015”. The four winners in the photo are (from the left): Pepa Pelant, Peter Stano, Kirill Petrov and Tomáš Hejl.
Creditinfo and NMB partner to promote responsible lending and improve financial inclusion
Dar es Salaam Thursday 7th May 2015
JOINT PRESS RELEASE
Creditinfo Tanzania (CIT) and NMB today announced concluding a strategic partnership. This landmark partnership aims to support NMB to make better and informed credit decisions, champion responsible lending, promote financial inclusion and facilitate economic growth. The partnership will be a first of its kind in Tanzania and will mean the automated integration of NMB’s credit scoring and Creditinfo credit bureau systems. Continue reading »
How to "Zorb" in Malta
How to “Zorb” in Malta
Well, we’re not sure if you’ve heard of this before, but “to zorb” basically means to tightly squeeze yourself into a big plastic bubble so that just your legs stick out of the end (Melissa demonstrates below!) and then run around, kick a football and bash into each other. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Zorb-Football-Malta/764401413585635 All I have to say is that our ladies at Creditinfo Malta are obviously very brave, just imagine some of the CIM guys charging at you in a big plastic ball!
Creditinfo's Celebrities
Creditinfo’s Celebrities
At Creditinfo, we have famous people working with us.
Here’s just a few….
Did you know that Stebbi (Stefán Önundarson) atCreditinfo Iceland has appeared in an award winning Hollywood movie with Ben Stiller in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5272340/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
We are the real deal!
We are the real deal!
Some months ago, we applied for an European Union Community Trade Mark (EU CTM) and we got it! This is a lengthy and costly process to ensure we have protection so that no one else can use our name or logo in a similar industry. We are covered under 6 classes – Financial affairs & insurance, for all printed materials and advertising, plus receiving, collecting and/or supplying and/or forwarding of messages and data, in Education (Creditinfo Academy training) and finally for research, design and development of computer hardware & software (CBS5).
CBE team in Senegal – BCEAO update
CBE team in Senegal – BCEAO update
Our Credit Bureau Expansion (CBE) team visited our colleagues in Senegal at Creditinfo VoLo this month to continue the work being carried out to get the 8 BCEAO countries online by June 2015.
Not all of the BCEAO already have this legislation in place in order to take the Credit Bureau forward. As you may have noted, new legislation has recently been implemented in countries such as Mali http://malijet.com/actualite-politique-au-mali/conseil_des_ministres_du_mali/127984-compte-rendu-du-conseil-des-ministres-du-22-avril-2015.html where Creditinfo VoLo have been influential in making this happen.
Player of the Month
Player of the Month
Dalia Mažeikaitė
Customer Service Manager, Dalia Mažeikaitė, entered the Millionaire’s Club, after reaching one million litas sales through her successful career at the company.
Dalia has been working at Creditinfo Lithuania for six years. She is the 5th employee who achieved one million litas sales. Her personal purpose now is to reach one million income calculated in euros!
Sales Millionaires’ Club already includes Jurga, Marijus, Marius and Vytautas.
Joining the Creditinfo Family in Tanzania
Joining the Creditinfo Family in Tanzania
Van Reynders
Van Reynders is the new Head of Sales, Creditinfo Tanzania. Van started out his career in credit risk management solutions by joining a leading international Credit Bureau in South Africa in 2006 and through this he built an impressive track record of sales achievements and advancement through a series of progressively higher responsible positions in sales and sales management. He was also part of a small team of bureau specialists that worked on successfully implementing the first credit bureau in Uganda, East Africa in 2009. When he is not strategizing on building sales pipelines, Van ensures that not a minute of his life is spent indoors than what is deemed absolutely necessary.
A new CEO for Jamaica
A new CEO for Jamaica
RAIG STEPHEN
With over 10 years’ experience in the financial sector, Mr Craig A. Stephen, founding partner of Coalesce Credit Solutions Limited has covered a broad cross-section of financial duties including full operational and administrative management of a Credit Union. In 2006, his skills and attitude awarded him the position of Operations and Administrations Manager at the U.W.I
News from Ivory Towers
Almar’s Monthly
Pay It Forward
http://payitforwardday.com/about/about-the-day/
“Pay It Forward” is all about the act of giving to someone else and making
a positive difference and it is celebrated on Thursday 30th April 2015 and
“Random Acts of Kindness” is another similar event celebrated in November:
https://www.randomactsofkindness.org/
Creditinfo invited by PT PEFINDO Credit Bureau to talk with APPI
This month Creditinfo were invited back to Jakarta, Indonesia to meet again with PT PEFINDO Credit Bureau. This time it was in relation to a half day event and meetings held by Pefindo to promote and explain the new Pefindo Biro Kredit to non bank entities, known locally as multi-finance organisations (MFOs). The event was held in collaboration with the Asosiasi Perusahaan Pembiayaan Indonesia (APPI), which is the Multi Finance Association in Indonesia. The theme was “The role of the APPI and PEFINDO Credit Bureau in the success of healthier and competitive industry financing”.
Paul Randall and the team at CIS delivered an hour long presentation on the features and benefits of CBS5 as part of the half day programme and also met with APPI members from the MFOs.
Soviet Forex
The value of the Russian ruble has stabilized in the last three months, but it could be giving people a false sense of calmness. Those who do business in any of the former Soviet republics should be aware that many of those currencies are continuing to lose their purchasing power. Continue reading »
Join Daniela Castillo from iMovo for a webinar on Social Media and Socionomix
We are pleased to welcome Ms. Daniela Castillo, Head of Marketing at iMovo, to present the next Creditinfo Academy webinar. Daniela will be discussing Social Media and Socionomix.
Date: Thursday 30th April 2015
Time: 15h00 Central European Summer Time (CEST)
Topic: Socionomix
Webex log in details are noted below. Continue reading »
