Verdata Joins FICO Marketplace to Help Financial Institutions Strengthen Small Business Decisioning
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Verdata and FICO (NYSE:FICO) announced a strategic partnership making Verdata's small- and medium-sized business (SMB) data and risk insights available via FICO Marketplace on FICO Platform.
This integration lets financial institutions and fintechs embed Verdata’s 25M+ SMB data records into onboarding, underwriting, compliance, and portfolio monitoring workflows to reduce manual reviews and surface risk signals faster.
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News Market Reaction – FICO
In the Jul 6 session, FICO gained 1.23%, reflecting a mild positive market reaction.
Data tracked by StockTitan Argus on the day of publication.
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Historical Context
| Date | Event | Sentiment | 24h Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24 | Market report | Neutral | +3.7% | UK credit card report showing higher spend but softening repayment trends. |
| Jun 23 | CSR partnership | Positive | +0.8% | Financial literacy partnership with Chelsea Foundation expanding UK education efforts. |
| Jun 09 | Product adoption | Positive | +1.4% | Mortgage lender Rate adopting FICO Score 10T across multiple mortgage products. |
| Jun 08 | Capital return program | Positive | +5.8% | New $2.0B repurchase authorization and $1.5B term loan for accelerated buybacks. |
| Jun 04 | Client deployment | Positive | -2.5% | Vietnam Maritime Bank achieving 200% faster loan approvals using FICO decisioning. |
24h Move is the share-price change in the day after each event; other market factors may also have contributed.
Recent FICO headlines have usually prompted modestly positive price reactions, with one notable divergence on otherwise positive client news.
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Comprehensive new data and risk insights enable faster underwriting, onboarding, and portfolio monitoring
Through FICO® Marketplace, organizations can now access Verdata's actionable data and risk insights directly within their decisioning workflows. This enables teams to evaluate SMBs, monitor portfolio changes, and surface meaningful risk signals without relying on disconnected checks or new point-to-point integrations.
Verdata brings together 25M+ public, private, and consortium-based data records across firmographics, regulatory activity, business performance, financial indicators, principals, licensing, service reputation, and ongoing change signals. For lenders, payment providers, marketplaces, and other organizations, these insights help to significantly reduce manual review, identify changes sooner, and support stronger decisions across onboarding, underwriting, lead scoring, compliance, and portfolio monitoring.
"Financial institutions expanding their SMB portfolios need data they can act on," said Jason Andrew, chief revenue officer at FICO. "FICO Marketplace was built to eliminate the friction between insight and action with intelligent decisioning, and Verdata's SMB solutions deliver critical business context our customers need, directly within the workflows where decisions are made."
"All organizations serving small and medium-sized businesses face pressure to make faster and smarter decisions. Traditional data sources leave critical gaps like incomplete, outdated, or disconnected data elements," said Mike Mondelli, CEO of Verdata. "By adding Verdata's business intelligence to the FICO® Marketplace, we enable organizations to incorporate complete, current, and actionable data into their decisioning ecosystem, helping them evaluate businesses faster, act with confidence, and strengthen outcomes across the customer lifecycle."
FICO Marketplace is accessible directly within FICO® Platform and enables customers to leverage a catalog of offerings from trusted and pre-vetted providers. The marketplace reshapes how organizations gain value from AI by enabling rapid discovery and deployment of data, analytics and decisioning assets that fuel intelligent decisioning and drive better business outcomes.
To learn more, visit FICO® Marketplace.
About Verdata
Verdata is a small and medium-size business data and risk intelligence platform that helps organizations make clearer, faster, and more confident decisions across onboarding, underwriting, lead scoring, compliance, and portfolio monitoring. Leveraging its proprietary data consortium and unifying fragmented business data into an actionable intelligence layer, Verdata gives lenders, payment providers, marketplaces, and other organizations greater visibility into business identity, risk, and change.
About FICO
FICO (NYSE: FICO) powers decisions that help people and businesses around the world prosper. Founded in 1956, the company is a pioneer in the use of predictive analytics and data science to improve operational decisions. FICO holds more than 200 US and foreign patents on technologies that increase profitability, customer satisfaction and growth for businesses in financial services, insurance, telecommunications, health care, retail and many other industries. Using FICO solutions, businesses in more than 80 countries do everything from protecting 4 billion payment cards from fraud, to improving financial inclusion, to increasing supply chain resiliency. The FICO® Score, used by
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Media Contact: Eran Fabian, Eran.Fabian@Verdata.com
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