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FICO's Chief Analytics Officer Dr. Scott Zoldi has been awarded the Banking Tech Awards USA's 2025 Tech Leadership Award, recognizing his contributions to Responsible AI, Ethical AI, and Blockchain innovation. The prestigious award, presented at a ceremony attended by over 300 senior industry decision-makers, acknowledges Dr. Zoldi's role in advancing banking technology. As FICO's chief analytics officer, he leads AI and analytic innovation across the company's product portfolio. His impressive track record includes being named as an inventor on 103 patents, with an additional 40+ patent applications pending. Dr. Zoldi's work focuses on operationalizing AI responsibly and ethically in banking, where AI adoption is rapidly accelerating.

FICO and First Tee – Ontario are partnering to host a free Score A Better Future Fundamentals financial literacy event for teens on June 3, 2025, at Mono Hills Golf Club. The event targets youth aged 14-17 from the Boys & Girls Club of Caledon and Brampton, combining financial education with golf activities during the 2025 RBC Canadian Open week. The program focuses on teaching teens about credit, FICO Scores, and personal finance fundamentals. Students will participate in First Tee golf programming and get a photo opportunity with the RBC Canadian Open Trophy. The initiative aims to help young people understand how early financial decisions impact their futures, with the curriculum being available to educators at accredited middle and high schools.

FICO is launching a series of financial education initiatives at major golf tournaments across North America in Summer 2025. The company will showcase its Score A Better Future™ Fundamentals program, a free credit education initiative for high school students, at events including the RBC Canadian Open, Wyndham Championship, and TOUR Championship. FICO is partnering with First Tee chapters in Ontario and Central Carolina, and Drew Charter School in Atlanta to deliver these workshops. The initiative aims to address a significant gap in financial literacy among Gen Z, revealed by a FICO-Harris poll showing that over 25% of Gen Z members don't consider themselves financially literate, despite 99% believing in its importance. The program combines golf events with financial education to engage teens and teach them about credit and personal finance management.

FICO (NYSE: FICO) has announced a new strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance their existing partnership and accelerate digital transformation initiatives. The collaboration includes making FICO solutions available through AWS Marketplace Private Offers, with FICO® Decision Modeler being the first solution now available in the marketplace.

The partnership expands FICO's participation in AWS partner programs and focuses on delivering AI-driven, automated decision workflows through FICO Platform, which runs on AWS. The collaboration also involves joint development work through the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, where FICO is developing agentic AI capabilities. Notably, Amazon utilizes FICO's Xpress optimization suite within Amazon Connect, demonstrating the bilateral nature of the partnership.

Fintech company Octane has been awarded a 2025 FICO Decision Award for Customer Onboarding & Management, highlighting its successful integration of FICO Auto Score 10. The company achieved remarkable growth in 2024, with originations increasing by 36% year-over-year. Octane's technological innovations include Prequal Flex® and Dealer Portal 2.0, which streamline the financing process for recreational purchases. The company has demonstrated strong financial performance, closing four AAA-rated asset-backed securitizations and surpassing $4B in asset-backed securitization. Through its partnership with FICO since 2016, Octane has expanded credit access while maintaining robust risk management standards, serving 4,000 dealer partners and originating over $6 billion in aggregate.

A new FICO survey reveals that 90% of Canadians consider a bank's customer experience equally or more important than its products and services. The study highlights strong customer loyalty in Canadian banking, with 69% of customers maintaining their primary bank for over a decade. Key findings show that 76% of Canadians still use traditional banks, though digital banking interest is growing across age groups.

The survey also found that 68% of customers are satisfied with their banks' communication methods, while only 7.4% report poor communication. Notably, poor customer experience was cited as the primary reason for switching banks by 41% of respondents. The research emphasizes the importance of personalization, with over three-quarters of respondents valuing personalized offers.

Entercard, a leading Nordic finance company, has chosen to implement FICO Platform to enhance its fraud prevention capabilities, particularly focusing on fraudulent account openings. The platform will utilize AI-powered technology for model development, identity resolution, streaming data, and service orchestration.

The implementation will help Entercard combat various types of fraud including synthetic identity fraud, first-party fraud, mule detection, ID theft, application velocity checks, and bust-out fraud. The FICO Platform is designed to improve decisions, customer interactions, and risk management at scale while breaking down silos across teams.

Entercard, a previous winner of the FICO Decision Award for Fraud Control, selected FICO as a trusted partner based on their history of delivering outstanding results.

FICO announced the winners of its second FICO® Partner Awards at FICO® World conference, recognizing six companies for their exceptional use of FICO® Platform. Fujitsu won the New Partner Award for their commitment to implementing FICO solutions in Japan. TSYS received the Platform Award for their innovative use of FICO® Strategy Director. Fiserv earned the Fraud Fighting Award for their 30-year partnership in fraud prevention. Dock was awarded the Financial Inclusion Award for enabling digital banking solutions across Latin America. TCS won the Innovation Award for developing climate risk assessment tools, while LexisNexis® Risk Solutions received the Early Marketplace Adopter Award for their role in launching FICO® Marketplace.

FICO (NYSE: FICO) has announced the pricing of $1.5 billion in Senior Notes due 2033 with a 6.000% interest rate. The notes were priced at 100% of their principal amount and will be offered as senior unsecured obligations. The company plans to use the proceeds to repay existing debt under its unsecured revolving credit facility and term loans, cover related expenses, and for general corporate purposes. The offering is expected to close on May 13, 2025.

The Notes are being sold to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A and to non-U.S. persons under Regulation S of the Securities Act, as they have not been registered under the Securities Act or other jurisdictions' securities laws.

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