The Creditinfo Chronicle
Happy New Year, everyone!
The Creditinfo team are all back in the office and ready to kick off 2015. It’s a great new start for a prosperous and successful year. Watch this space over the next 12 months as we open more Credit Bureau around the globe continuing our goal of being in 50 countries by 2020 and increasing financial inclusion worldwide.
Players of the Month – December 2014
Having spent a week in Indonesia with our new partners at PEFINDO Biro Kredit, this team not only signed the deal, but made some new friends during their stay too.
- Pictured from the top of the stairs:
Filip Kratochvil
Alexander Novosolev
Filip Hodul
Johnny Lim
Radka Szabova
Missing from the photo, as he was the camera man – Paul Randall.
Great team work! Read more about the contract signing
http://chronicle.creditinfo.com/creditinfo-support-pefindo-biro-kredit-to-become-the-largest-credit-bureau-in-indonesia
Almar's Monthly Message – December 2014
Another year draws to a close and over the past 12 months, we have celebrated successes, worked hard, laughed, said goodbye to some of our colleagues, welcomed new colleagues, made changes, faced challenges, relocated and/or redecorated offices. It’s been a busy year!
I would like to thank all our staff for their determination, dedication, skill and commitment in making Creditinfo what it is today.
Having gone from a one man band almost 2 decades ago, Creditinfo has grown into a dynamic and very well respected organisation with 280 employees who are located in numerous countries around the globe. We have our own 100% owned offices, we have some great joint ventures and partnerships as major and minor shareholders, and we have our software established and operating in many more countries – we are everywhere! Between us we speak almost 30 different languages, maybe more. Continue reading »
Christmas traditions around the world
We found this cool link which explains how different cultures around the globe celebrate Christmas.
Click the link: http://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/
You can read about some very strange traditions that are celebrated. From the Icelandic Yuletide lads / Jólasveinarnir to the Lithuanian tradition of cleaning the house for Kūčios / Christmas Eve. And in the Czech Republic you must read about people fasting and looking for the golden pig – We think that maybe down to too much Becherovka!
Come and meet us at….
11th Annual Global Microfinance Forum
19th & 20th March, Istanbul, Turkey
We will be one of the Partner organisations at this event. So if you know of anyone else that would like to attend and meet us there, just let us know. More info on the conference at:
http://www.uni-global.eu/en/event/2015-174
Christmas Jumpers in Iceland
Some of our colleagues in Iceland got into the festive spirit wearing some rather wonderful Christmas jumpers to work. Elfa, Tinna Björk Bryde, Brynja Baldursdóttir, Sigrún Finnsdóttir, Snorri Jónsson, Jóhannes Stephensen, Hákon Stefánssonand Eyjólfur Fannar Eyjólfsson.
Creditinfo supports PEFINDO Biro Kredit to become the largest Credit Bureau in Indonesia
Having obtained a principal license last August, the Indonesian biggest and oldest credit rating agency, PT Pemeringkat Efek Indonesia (PEFINDO), recently announced their expectation to obtain an operating permit for its subsidiary, PT PEFINDO Biro Kredit (PEFINDO Credit Bureau), to operate as a Credit Information Management Bureau (LPIP). The issuing government authority, Financial Services Authority (OJK), will hopefully issue the licence in the second half of 2015.
After an extensive selection process, PEFINDO Biro Kredit has signed an exclusive long term partnership contract with Creditinfo earlier this month to provide a credit bureau solution and support of their Credit Bureau operations. Creditinfo will provide PEFINDO Biro Kredit with its modular credit bureau solution, CBS5. PEFINDO’s President Director, Ronald T Andi Kasim explained, “The company (PEFINDO Credit Bureau) will provide more comprehensive credit-risk profiles of debtors and credit-rating information about individuals to banks and other financing bodies, utilising the credit-rating information system provided and practiced by Creditinfo. We are currently preparing the company’s IT system and human resources, which are expected to be completed in the first quarter of next year. Afterwards, we expect to obtain the permit in the second quarter of next year, so that operations can be started in the third quarter.” Continue reading »
Creditinfo Academy – Independent Mediator – Árni J Magnús
Árni J Magnús, Independent Mediator for Creditinfo Iceland hf, today delivered a presentation about his role and responsibilities. Watch the recording here
Creditinfo Academy – CIFAS – Sue Wishart
On 4th December 2014, the Creditinfo Academy were pleased to welcome Sue Wishart, Head of Business engagement, CIFAS, to talk about the world’s first and largest database of shared confirmed fraud.
You can find links below to Sue’s biography and to watch the presentation on You Tube.
Da Afghanistan Bank Information Video
Da Afghanistan Bank who have Creditinfo Solutions CBS5 solution installed ave recently released a short video describing the work of a Credit Bureau and how good / bad credit scores can affect you in obtaining future credit. Check it out on FaceBook:
Epic storms in Iceland
Epic storms in Iceland last night were the worst since 1991! There have been reports from all over the country of roof slates blowing off, windows breaking, trees being ripped from their roots and many events that were scheduled yesterday, including the lighting of the Christmas tree in Reykjavík, were canceled because of the storm. The worst of the storm hit the Keflavík area, with dangerous gusts of wind up to and over 40 m/s. Continue reading »
Player of the Month – November 2014
Creditinfo Solutions CBS5 Experts
This month we’d like to acknowledge the efforts, experience, knowledge and passion of the CBS5 team in Prague who delivered training this month. They did an excellent job as was declared in the fabulous feedback from the attendees.
Congratulations to:
Radek Bittner,Tomas Tichy, Pavol Štolec, Eugenia Kijkova, Alexander Novoselov, Dmitry Borodin, Dima Batygin, Kirill Petrov
We don’t want to forget all the other people who are involved (too many to mention), from the programmers, business analysts, software analysts, product managers, project managers, software architects, IT administrators, consultants and all the guys and gals on the Service Desk too, let alone all the support functions.
Almar's monthly post – November 2014
Hello December!
It’s not long now until we will be celebrating holiday festivities and welcoming in the new year. December is often the time for reflection, did you achieve everything you set out to do, did you uphold those new year’s resolutions, did you make a difference? December gives you a chance to cram in some last minute things before the end of the year so you can achieve some of those goals.
Before you start cramming in those things, let’s think about one of our company values: EFFECTIVENESS. Continue reading »
Bank of South Sudan visit CIS Prague
The Bank of South Sudan visited Creditinfo Soultions in Prague, Czech Republic for training. The Creditinfo CBS5 expert team held workshops explaining the functionalities of CBS5 in great detail, scoring modules and much more. See photos below.
