The Annual Experian PowerCurve Forum is here!

10:00 am

Welcome and Introduction to the day

Luciano Scalise
Managing Director, Decision Analytics, EMEA

10:05 am

Forrester Research: Key trends and valuable insights on digitalization, customer experience and innovation

Paul Heaton
Head of Product and Propositions Marketing EMEA & APAC, Experian

In 2022, the pace of digital transformation shows no sign of slowing. We’re seeing more businesses invest in technology to improve performance, deliver greater operational efficiency, and power better customer experience. This presentation covers some key highlights from our latest research conducted on behalf of Experian by Forrester Consulting, where we surveyed 587 financial services and telecoms businesses and more than 3,000 consumers across various markets including Australia, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Turkey, South Africa and Spain.  The findings reveal a common set of challenges and perspectives across geographies.

10:20 am

How to significantly improve business performance with adoption of Machine Learning in decisioning

Leandro Guerra
Head of Data Science and Analytical Platform EMEA & APAC, Experian

Machine Learning is currently being implemented in credit decisioning, and this translates into several benefits that your business can unlock to help deliver competitive advantage. This session will present how you can upgrade from traditional logistic regression models to Machine Learning models ensuring that performance uplift comes with the confidence of transparency for auditing and regulatory purposes.

10:30 am

Best practice session: the Hellenic Bank journey to automated decisioning

Efi Antoniou
Associate Manager of Customer Analytics and Decisioning, Hellenic Bank, Cyprus

Mariyan Matakiev
Head of Southern Europe Regulatory Analytics, Experian

An interview hosted by Mariyan Matakiev

11:00 am

The experience of International Banking Group: Banco Santander

Raúl Clemente Landaluce
Model Risk & Credit Systems Director at Banco Santander España

Antonio Romero
Strategic Client Director, Experian

An interview hosted by Antonio Romero

11:20 am

How to advance and improve your strategy performance with Assisted Strategy Design

Jim Nowell
Senior Training Consultant at Experian

This session will focus on the Assisted Strategy Design features that are available in Powercurve Strategy Management. You'll see how top organizations around the world test and improve their credit decisioning strategies using the Simulation and Champion Challenger tools that are embedded into the Powercurve Platform. Using actual cases from the SimRisk Tournament, you'll be able to see the impact of different strategies that have been applied to the same portfolio under the same market conditions. You'll also receive tips and advice on how to get the most out of this Intelligent Decisioning tool, and how your Credit Risk department can put them into practice on your own portfolio.

11:30 am

Discover our cloud-based solution: PowerCurve Saas Migration (new features and innovation)

Peter Sorenti
Head of Product Management, EMEA Decision Analytics

Find out about the recent and on-going investment in our SaaS decisioning solutions. Hear about the benefits that a SaaS deployment can bring you and what we’ve got planned on our innovation roadmap, including low-code data integration and machine learning explainability.

Keynote Speakers

Luciano Scalise

Managing Director, Decision Analytics, EMEA

Luciano Scalise Biography

Luciano Scalise is the Decision analytics Managing Director for APAC and EMEA at Experian. After his master’s degree in economics at the University of Buenos Aires he joined Banco of Columbia as Risk and Portfolio manager with responsibility across Credit products and Risk management. Luciano joined Experian in 2008 and in his career, he has developed a strong understanding of the Financial Sector in South America covering the role of Director of Consulting practice in Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil as well as VP for Innovation and Knowledge in Spanish latam. In 2015 he was appointed Country Manager for Argentina, Chile, and Central America. In 2020 he moved to Europe to lead the Decision Analytics Business line for the EMEA region and more recently also for the APAC region. He is a member of the Regional Board where he leads the Products, Analytics and Data Strategy for Experian across Europe, Africa, India, and Asia.

Paul Heaton

Head of Product and Propositions Marketing EMEA & APAC, Experian

Paul Heaton Biography

Paul is Head of Product and Proposition Marketing at Experian where he leads the development of value propositions that help deliver on client needs. He has over 10 years marketing experience within financial services having previously served as Enterprise Marketing Director for the world’s largest payments company, Worldpay.

Leandro Guerra

Head of Data Science and Analytical Platform EMEA & APAC, Experian

Leandro Guerra Biography

Leandro Guerra is the Head of Data Science and Analytics Platforms for Experian EMEA & APAC. He has over 11 years of experience with a deep interest and know-how in Machine Learning and AI model development.

His recent experiences includes:

Development of ML models for risk management, marketing, fraud prevention, HR, healthcare and retail
Development and implementation of overall Data Science/ML business goals
Management of Data Consultancy Projects applied to credit assessment, marketing, fraud prevention, insurance, HR analytics, healthcare and CRM
Development of ML explainability frameworks

Leandro holds a BSc degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the State University of Londrina and a Data Science Specialisation from Johns Hopkins University..

Efi Antoniou

Associate Manager of Customer Analytics and Decisioning, Hellenic Bank, Cyprus

Efi Antoniou Biography

Efi Antoniou is currently Associate Manager of Customer Analytics and Decisioning at Hellenic Bank, Cyprus. In her 13 years with the bank, she has held several positions in the data analytics, data management and credit systems and processes space. Her professional interests include credit scoring, credit decisioning automation, customer management and processes optimization. Before joining Hellenic Bank, Efi worked in academia as a lecturer at Frederick University Cyprus and special scientist at the University of Cyprus. Efi has a Ph.D in Statistics from Penn State University.

Mariyan Matakiev

Head of Southern Europe Regulatory Analytics, Experian

Mariyan Matakiev Biography

Mariyan has 15+ years experience in the Banking and Finance world in the Credit Risk Management, Data, Analytics and Regulations subjects. At Experian He has lead many of the initiatives around Best Practice Guidelines for Early Warning, IRB 2021, IFRS9 developments. Self-driven Professional with vast experience across customer credit lifecycle, passion for Data and Analytics Products and Services and Innovations, motivated to solve complex and demanding client issues and create real value for clients and customers.

Raúl Clemente Landaluce

Model Risk & Credit Systems Director at Banco Santander España

Raúl Clemente Landaluce Biography

Raúl has a Degree in Mathematics. He has been working at Banco Santander España for 15 years, in Madrid. Raúl is responsible for Engines and Architecture, and he has developed his career at Risk, linked to the definition and implementation of decision and pre-approval strategies.

Antonio Romero

Strategic Client Director, Experian

Antonio Romero Biography

Graduated in Business Administration from Complutense University at Madrid, Antonio has spent 25 years in Experian occupying different positions from the Analytical and Consulting areas to the General Management of Experian Decision Analytics for Iberia and later for Southern Europe. For the past 10 years he is managing the Santander Group account, one of Experian's Strategic Customers worldwide.

Jim Nowell

Senior Training Consultant at Experian

Jim Nowell Biography

After graduating from Leeds University in 1990 with a BSc Honours Degree in Data Processing, Jim started work at GE Capital where he covered the role of Portfolio Risk Manager, responsible for the Storecards Portfolio. In 1993, Jim worked on the implementation of the Beta version of Strategy Manager and in 1998 left GE Capital and joined the Strategy Management Consultancy team at Experian, where he designed New Business and Customer Management solutions for a wide range of clients and markets, both in Europe and North America. Since 2007, Jim have been delivering “SimRisk”, a set of interactive Business Game in which analysts are trained what to look for when developing a Credit Strategy. Jim's courses help users to smoothly deliver strategies within automated systems, and effectively make the best use of "Simulation" and "Assisted Design Strategy" for Reporting and Strategy Development. Jim today is a well reconised Powercurve "Guru" and his courses are attended every year by hundreds of users worldwide either in person or in remote fashion.

Peter Sorenti

Head of Product Management, EMEA Decision Analytics

Peter Sorenti Biography

Peter is Head of Product Management for Experian’s Decisioning software solutions for EMEA and Asia Pacific. He has over 20 years product management experience, and is responsible for ensuring that enhancements to the core PowerCurve applications deliver meaningful value to clients and for developing and launching new decisioning propositions based on this core software, Experian’s other assets and partner solutions, including its Credit Bureaux where available, Open Banking solutions and analytics capabilities.

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