Tuesday | 10:25 AM - 11:25 AM | Chief Architect Track

SESSION TITLE

Business Agility Using Rules - Merchant Acquiring Risk and Fraud Solutions

SPEAKER(s):

Mark Eastwood VP, Solution Management FICO

MAIN FOCUS OF PRESENTATION: Business & IT

FAMILIARITY WITH SUBJECT: None

ABOUT THIS SESSION:

Financial fraud continues to be a significant challenge the world over; fighting fraud is a constantly changing battle. Business rules managed by the anti-fraud team provide a flexible way to quickly keep up with the latest trends. Leveraging decision management (analytics and business rules) it’s possible to quickly build a highly flexible, high performance mechanism to review merchant acquiring payment-card transactions. You will learn

• a brief overview of the fraud industry specifically about the “payment-card merchant acquiring fraud” space
• the high-level architecture of a flexible detection platform combining analytics, patented profiling mechanisms and rules
• major solution functionality
• implementation overview and challenges



ABOUT THE SPEAKER(s):

Mark oversees a global team of subject-matter experts in risk, fraud, customer management and collections along with software architects and product experts. They know how to apply FICO products and technologies to real-world business challenges. Mark is responsible for the overall vision and direction regularly architecting complex client solutions.

Mark brings an extensive technology background, market sensitivity, vision and pursuit of excellence. He has 20 years of experience delivering decision management and decision support applications in many industries. In particular he has architected and led development of many originations projects using business rules and analytics for leading global financial institutions.