Agenda - Day one - Monday 1 October

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Anthony Sumner, Experian Decision Analytics
Anthony Sumner has over twelve years of experience within the credit industry covering all areas of decision support and their application across the credit life cycle. During this time Anthony has demonstrated the ability to lead large and complex projects that add significant value to a client organisation. His previous roles within Experian include:

  • Five years in the International division providing analytical and consultancy support to clients in South Africa, Scandinavia and the Republic of Ireland
  • A Business development role focusing on the development and support of risk and fraud based solutions in the UK.
  • A consultancy role in the New Solutions area of Experian-Scorex concentrating on fraud initiatives and supporting the UK fraud business from a fraud analytical perspective.

Anthony’s background also includes a variety of consulting engagements as well as a secondment to a major retail finance provider acting as a Credit Development consultant within the Account Management area, supporting the launch of a credit card from both a risk and fraud perspective.

Anthony’s experience and in depth knowledge covers scorecard development (application and behavioural) as well as the design and development of risk, fraud, customer management, collection and marketing strategies. Anthony has worked with a number of organisations specialising in designing customer management strategies around limits (recommended, shadow, automatic), past due authorisations, customer exposure and collections.

Anthony is currently a Principal Consultant within the Global Consultancy Team of Experian Decision Analytics. Anthony joined Experian from the University of Sheffield where he graduated with a first class BA Honours degree in Economics.

State of the UK consumer lending market – the roller-coaster has not stopped yet
 The UK consumer lending market is unrecognisable from what it was just a decade ago. The recent environment has been difficult, but what are the key learnings for our industry, and what are the practical actions we should take now within our businesses to ensure we create sustainable long-term value whilst ensuring we maximise the short-term opportunities.