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External Credit Risk Scorecards

Sophisticated risk rating solutions for consistent credit risk assessment.

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Powerful Scorecards and Rating Models for Credit Risk Assessment

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Identifying and managing default risk across a credit portfolio requires sophisticated analytical tools and consistent frameworks for risk analysis.

Developing and maintaining internal risk rating systems can be costly and resource-intensive. External credit assessment scorecards can complement internal methodologies by providing a consistent, standardised approach to credit analysis, supporting more efficient risk assessment and helping organisations meet regulatory requirements.

ACTICO enables credit and risk management professionals to use sophisticated, pre-configured scorecards and rating models for credit risk assessment. These can be used alongside an organisation’s internal risk rating methodologies, providing flexibility to apply the right approach for different portfolios, customer segments or use cases.

A consistent framework for analysis can help reduce implementation time and costs while supporting more efficient and consistent credit risk assessment.

Key Benefits

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Easy to Use

Deliver consistent credit analysis through intuitive, industry-specific scorecard templates designed for practical use by credit and risk teams.

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Proven Best Practices

Incorporate established credit risk knowledge and best practices based on decades of experience in evaluating credit risk.

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Adaptable

Choose the approach that fits your environment and your geography - use scorecards through a cloud-based, workflow-enabled platform or integrate them with your existing internal or third-party software.

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Integrated

Connect risk rating with your existing lending environment through APIs and integrations, including nCino.

ACTICO provides risk rating solutions designed to meet different bank requirements, risk methodologies and technology environments.

Whether you need external scorecards, credit rating agency sources, dual risk rating, integration with your loan origination system, or a technology platform for your own scorecards, ACTICO provides flexible options.

ACTICO Dual Risk Rating

Judgment-based scorecards that assess both the borrower and the loan, giving lenders greater granularity and consistency in commercial credit risk classification and management across the US and Canada. Built on extensive banking expertise, the scorecards can be used out of the box or tailored to your own risk assessment practices.

ACTICO also has the banking expertise to develop custom scorecards for specialized lending segments, including Healthcare, Oil & Gas and Agriculture.

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Scope Ratings

Scope Ratings is a credit rating agency registered in accordance with the EU Rating Regulation and operating in the European Union with ECAI status. Its coverage includes corporations, SMEs, project finance, banks, and sovereigns.

Scope’s ratings are particularly relevant for European financial institutions due to the agency’s regulatory recognition and role in the European financial system.

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Technology & Platform Integrations

Integrated with nCino

ACTICO provides full integration of its risk rating solution with the nCino platform, helping banks incorporate risk assessment into their existing commercial lending workflows.  

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Web-based risk assessment platform

The Scorecards are integrated with a flexible, secure, cloud-based web-application. The workflow enabled solution covers the end-to-end risk assessment process including data input of qualitative and quantitative risk factors, analyst adjustments and multi-stage, role-based approval processes.

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API-based integration

All scorecards are exposed through powerful standard APIs (Web Services), making it easy to embed scorecard logic and risk rating into existing lending workflows, internal systems, and third-party technology environments. 

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Flexible Technology for Your Risk Rating Approach

ACTICO provides the technology foundation to support different risk rating strategies and banking environments. Whether you use ACTICO’s external scorecards, adopt dual risk rating, integrate with nCino or another lending platform, or bring your own scorecards, the platform provides the flexibility to support your requirements.  

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Recognized throughout the industry.

ACTICO has consistently been recognized by customers and analysts as a leading provider of solutions for Compliance, Asset Administration, and Credit Risk Management, as well as Advanced Decision Automation Technology.

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