The Creditinfo Chronicle
Creditinfo win tender in Latvia
My job
People have predefined ideas about what it is that I do. I have found that such ideas vary from me being in charge of everything that happens in our company to being in a ceremonial role. People outside the company typically believe I am involved in much more than I am. As an example someone I know might contact me and ask for a job. I would answer that I have only three employees myself and have not hired for 3 years, nor plan to. A lot of people are being hired by our Group, perhaps close to 1 per week now, but this is not something that is on my table. And that is not because I am too good for this, but precisely because I believe I am not very good at hiring and supporting people reporting directly to me. I typically give them tasks and leave it to them. The “outsiders” also find it strange that I have not been involved in the Icelandic operation at all for many years, even if I am working from the same office.
Congratulations to Nataliya Soldatyuk
Recently, Nataliya Soldatyuk from Creditinfo Solutions joined the CIS “Scoring Olympus”. She is not new to the business, however we wanted to mention that she is currently completing her Ph.D. in Econometrics. In just a few weeks from now, she will be presenting her Ph.D. “white paper” in a public industry forum, as a speaker at the 20th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies. Check out the link http://www.ifors2014.org. Maybe we should also mention that the conference is going to be held in Barcelona… during the summer… Well, we will try not to be too jealous! ;o)
The CIS team just wanted to say publicly that they are very proud of their colleague… Go Nataliya!
2 New Employees – Creditinfo Romania
Iount Diaconescu
Sales Manager
Hello. My name is Ionuţ and I am 34 years, with over half of them in Sales (Cars, Eggs, Houses, Insurance, T-shirts, Beer, Finance, Road Assistance, Cosmetics). I’d like to think of myself as dedicated, results-oriented and highly motivated Salesman, qualities that I hope to be best exploited in Creditinfo Group. Regarding experience, I am proud of my activity both on Corporate top-level and also lowest level of sales.I find the activity so far with Creditinfo Group both challenging and rewarding at knowledge acquirement. As a B2B Salesman, I hope to “give the best” here and together to reach the work-related satisfaction level that we desire and hope.
3 New Employees – Creditinfo Solutions – Czech Republic
Radka Szabová
Project Manager/Project Management Office
Radka believes that she will utilize her experience from international environment, change management projects in Africa, and become „universal “ Project Manager. And we believe so! Actually, she is already doing it. That means that there will be no limitation in the project that she leads. She is participating on our internal as well as external projects, covering entire portfolio of CIS products.
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!eBusiness Pass by Arnault Morin, VoLo
Today we had a presentation provided by Mr. Arnault Morin, Chief Information Officer for VoLo, on one of their smart products, the eBusiness Pass.
The eBusiness Pass is a business intelligence and operations platform that allows companies to access multiple opportunities for growth. It shows specific information of the Micro Small and Medium Enterprises.
You can watch Arnault’s webinar here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJV9kV59Bog
Check your social credit score developed by Creditinfo Lithuania
Creditinfo Lithuania 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. Continue reading »
Newstalk93FM Jamaica – Radio interview with Kiddi
Below you can hear Kristinn Agnarsson speaking about the benefits for a consumer and businesses of having a Credit Bureau in Jamaica.
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Sales Presentations – My Approach – Samuel White – International Business Development
Today employees at Creditinfo received a presentation about how to approach sales presentations. The underlying theme was to keep your PPT slides simple and clean and to tailor your presentation for your audience so that it is relevant. Samuél White, Business Development Manager, Creditinfo International (pictured) advised his colleagues to do their homework first and find out as much as possible about the audience so that you could engage them throughout the presentation with relevant information.
You can watch Samuel’s presentation video here: Vimeo
Hakon & Megan on CVM Sunrise, Jamaica
Creditinfo Iceland & Creditinfo Jamaica – on CVM at Sunrise discussing “How does the Jamaican sector match up internationally and what are the next steps for the Credit Bureau in Jamaica”.
Watch it here:
More info: Megan Deane and Hakon Stefansson
Annual Central Asia & Caucasus Microfinance Forum? 16 – 17 Oct 2014 – Tbilisi, Georgia.
Have you registered yet for the Annual Central Asia & Caucasus Microfinance Forum? 16 – 17 Oct 2014 – Tbilisi, Georgia. Paul Randall, Chairman of the Board, Creditinfo Georgia, will be speaking on “How Credit Bureaus adding value to data supports MFIs”
Please come along and meet Paul …
For more info visit: http://www.uni-global.eu/en/event/2014-163
A wedding with a difference in Malta!
Congratulations and celebrations!
Ramon Curmi of Creditinfo Malta and his beautiful bride, Louise, married on Saturday 24th May 2014. Talk about doing it in style…..after the wedding service, the couple made a grand entrance by speedboat to the Reception party. The Reception was held at a unique location, Popeye’s village. Not only is the venue where the original 1980 Musical Production “Popeye”, starring Robin Williams in his debut role, was filmed, but also one of the most scenic areas in Malta. Everyone that attended from the CI Malta office has remarked what a wonderful wedding it was and that the reception location rocked!
We're official in Kenya
We recently told you that Shane Moldenhauer is heading up Business Development in East Africa. Well, we have now officially registered a company “Creditinfo Kenya”. The first of many to come!Admittedly, the authorities in charge of this process spelt it wrong the first time we submitted our application, but now they have amended it and everything is official. We are also launching the website very soon too – you will be able to link to it from the “locations” section on www.creditinfo.com ….watch this space.
