HSBC Achieves 15% Uplift in Monthly Card Spend Using FICO’s AI-Powered Optimization
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HSBC wins 2024 FICO Decisions Award
Highlights:
- HSBC is using FICO® Platform to grow its credit card portfolio
- The project saw a 15% uplift in monthly spend by customers on their cards, as well as improvements in active card use and share of wallet, without increasing bad debt
- HSBC won a 2024 FICO® Decisions Award for AI, Machine Learning and Optimization.
Today at FICO® World, the industry’s leading analytic and AI event, FICO announced that HSBC, one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations, has used AI-powered mathematical optimization technology to grow its credit card portfolio. The project saw a 15% uplift in monthly spend by customers on their cards, as well as improvements in active card use and share of wallet, without increasing bad debt. HSBC has won a 2024 FICO Decisions Award for AI, Machine Learning and Optimization.
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“With FICO optimization, we can adjust credit limits to each customer’s risk, reward and engagement levels, and manage them with scientific precision, at speed, as our strategy and the economic climate change,” said
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“Setting new credit limits through testing programs is inefficient, and could damage customer relationships,” said Roberts. “By using FICO’s mathematical optimization, we were able to simulate responses to customer engagement, levels of spend, activations, loss rates, profitability and customer outcomes, whilst factoring in changes in economic and regulatory conditions. We were also able to better meet customer needs by targeting offers to customers that wanted and would use a credit line increase.”
HSBC worked closely with FICO to design the decision influence process that captured their credit line increase business. Eight action-effect models were created to forecast the impact of the existing credit line increase strategy. These models were configured within FICO® Platform, together with HSBC’s own profit calculations, and a suite of around 40 scenarios were developed to find the best solution.
When COVID 19 hit in 2020, HSBC rapidly redeveloped the strategies to deal with the new economic climate. Despite reduced demand for credit during lockdown, the optimised strategy proved to be more effective than its previous strategy at generating card use.
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“The ability to test vast decision strategy possibilities, inter-relationships and subsequent permutations in volumes and scenarios is way beyond the capacity of the human brain to calculate,” said Roberts. “At the same time, we are executing explainable decision strategies that provide the visibility and certainty to know that we are doing the right thing for customers.”
“Decision optimization is one of the most advanced tools a lender has,” said
“To get an advantage in one of the world’s most competitive credit markets is an outstanding achievement,” said
To see the full list of this year’s FICO® Decision Awards winners, check out: https://www.fico.com/en/decisionsawards
About the FICO Decisions Awards
The FICO Decisions Awards recognize organizations that are achieving remarkable success using FICO solutions. A panel of independent judges with deep industry expertise evaluates nominations based on measurable improvement in key metrics; demonstrated use of best practices; project scale, depth and breadth; and innovative uses of technology. The 2024 judges are:
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Andrew Birmingham , editor, Mi3 -
Eric Kavanagh , CEOBloor Group and host, InsideAnalysis -
Elizabeth Lumley , deputy editor, The Banker -
Paul Mah , senior editor, CDO Trends -
Laura Martins , editor,IT Forum -
Paul Robinson , VP credit management atCanadian Tire Bank (Previous Winner) -
Shiv Sehgal , EVP audience analytics atRSG Media (Previous Winner) -
Nick Vitchev , director at Chartis
The winners of the FICO Decisions Awards will be spotlighted at FICO® World 2024,
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