Equifax raids Barclays for predictive sciences analysts

by Staff,, Brand Republic 03-Aug-04, 07:30

LONDON - Equifax has raided Barclays Bank for the addition of two new analysts, Elaine Ridgewell and John Hutchinson, to its Predictive Sciences division to expand its analytical capabilities.

Ridgewell has spent 11 years with Barclays Bank, where she held a number of leadership roles, most notably as head of the advanced data analytics department.

Her experience across the risk cycle includes the development and enhancement of application scorecards and strategies, behavioural scoring, fraud scoring and the design of application decision engines.

Hutchinson spent six years at Barclays in business banking, where he helped develop automated business loan and overdraft sanctioning systems using behaviour scoring techniques. He then joined the consumer finance division working on behavioural, response and fraud scoring for personal loans, overdrafts and credit cards, in addition to limit models calculations and strategy setting.

Kiernon O'Neill, head of predictive sciences at Equifax, said: "The recruitment of industry veterans -- Elaine and John -- strengthens our competitive advantage and further demonstrates Equifax's commitment to offer customers the best in data analytics."

Equifax's Predictive Sciences division delivers data analytics for credit risk and marketing data services.

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