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AIZEN, the Data Big Bang, leads the AI Financial Innovation in Asia

We’re now living in the age of the ‘Data Big Bang’. Various companies have started using the significant influx of data to provide people with affordable financial services via AI Banking-as-a-Service (AI BaaS). Today, artificial intelligence (AI) uses the values of new data occurring from various data platforms to create new models that are linked to financial services. As more online businesses emerge and generate more data than ever, many innovative fintech services are now deeply integrated into the business’ value chain. Here, AIZEN is recognized as one of the leading AI financial technology platforms in Asia, most recently selected by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) as a top innovator for the ‘Responsible AI’ in Finance. The company was also the second-place winner at the MAS FinTech Awards; first place at the Hong Kong FinTech Week; and named Gartner Cool Vendors in AI for FinTech. AIZEN has been expanding its AI banking services in Vietnam, a country with a rapid fintech adoption and a booming data economy. We have secured more than 100 local data economy partners within several months since the launch of ‘CreditConnect’ and we are now connecting various Vietnamese data platforms to new financial opportunities. The key to financial innovation is the combination of the ‘Data Big Bang’ and various industrial data and specialized technologies that connect the financial industry with other stakeholders. AIZEN established the financial infrastructure to quickly provide financial services based on CreditConnect credit facilitating platform designed to connect business borrowers in the data economy with our bank partners. AIZEN applies sophisticated AI models to core financial decision-making processes, integrating its dynamic AI credit operating system with the end-to-end credit cycle.

AIZEN is expanding banking technologies to various industries and supp…

AIZEN completed designing the AI banking infrastructure based on the information obtained by integrating calculated accounts of 20 Korean commercial banks and the data gathered by analyzing the sales, including revenue trends of similar business types, sales statistics, and calculated expected payment (credit sales) of recent shopping transactions worth over KRW 2.3 trillion made on Gmarket, Coupang, SSG.com, 11st, auction, and KG Inicis, among others. We are focusing on sectors where finance is not connected to distribution to expand the financial services of individual online shopping business owners and are using elaborate AI models to support the owners’ decision-making. In the rapidly growing e-vehicle market, we are applying AI models based on vehicle battery performance data and operation data to develop a predicting model for managing optimal performance and build the financial infrastructure based on them. For e-vehicles, the cost of batteries accounts for about 40 percent of the total price, making performance management and maintenance crucial. Thus, providing financial services based on their predicted expected lifespan is possible. AIZEN Global is applying for patents related to e-vehicle batteries and continuously expanding financial services. Fully combining various data and connecting them to the financial industry leads to the globalization of “banking services.” “Credit Connect” has advanced into Vietnam and Indonesia, and we have secured 117 affiliated businesses to expand our credit-creating ecosystem in Southeast Asia. In particular, “Credit Connect” is being applied to the largest medical platform, delivery platform, and digital solution platform in the rapidly growing Vietnamese market. In addition, we have signed partnership agreements with local financial institutions, including the Vietnam Maritime Commercial Joint Stock Bank (MSB), to provide financial services to nonfinancial industries.

AI Finance “AIZEN Global” Fully Expands its “Banking Service” Ecosyste…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is applied to different fields in finance, and the transition to digital and Fintech is rapidly increasing. AIZEN Global uses AI banking technology to expand financial services to e-commerce and electric vehicle (e-vehicle) battery industries, thereby fully expanding the data economy. We developed “Credit Connect” connecting financial institutions and industries to possibly provide “banking services” to nonfinancial industries. Our calculating platform is based on online businesses that have applied “Credit Connect,” so we can speedily offer financial services to the businesses based on information gathered from up to 45 malls. In the e-vehicle battery industry, the clients’ credit decision-making, which used to be difficult to evaluate using the existing data, is meticulously analyzed using the AI of “Credit Connect.” We are now focusing on expanding our financial services. AIZEN Global has recently been ranked the top second among global companies by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and one of the top 10 responsible AI companies. As such, we have expanded our financial technologies using “reinforcement learning.” We are changing our ecosystem to convert diverse nonfinancial data with credit technology using AI financial models and provide “banking services.” In particular, we are expanding the automated elemental technologies necessary for loaning processes, securing patents for them, combining various data, and strengthening the automation of decision-making based on AI finance models. So far, we have made it possible to supply credit by connecting data platforms and financial institutions with speedy financial decision-making based on the client information of the rapidly changing e-commerce, battery market, and other new data platforms.

A new era in which banking permeates into daily life

In a recent event in New York, CB Insight offered a new flash of inspiration to the world of fintech. Technology now permeates into all aspects of our life, and the financial industry, in particular, is facing its rapid innovations. With new financial models such as banking services, buy now pay later (BNPL), cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence (AI) financial services offered ever anew, we face an age where we can no longer be sure about who is the competitor. In particular, big tech and traditional financial institutions have emerged from their past habits of opposing fintech as a competitor, instead working together to create new digital services wanted by customers and transforming previously complicated and unwieldy financial services into new and easily accessible forms. In banking services, there has been a transition from a traditional method, which limited low interest rates to certain groups based on the risk management framework or assessment from the institution, to new forms of services such as BNPL, nonfinancial data from credit bureau (CB) institutions, and application programming interface (API)–based and open banking services. The expansion of the financial model through data and AI represents an evolution of banking services, namely, one allowing new customers quick access to banking services. In particular, AI model–based banking services have garnered great interest for their capability to identify and expand the customer basis toward new and rapidly growing markets, such as e-commerce and mobility. This is evident in the fast growth of the American firm Upstart, which has successfully utilized the concept of AI lending. In a similar vein, AIZEN has successfully expanded its business beyond the domestic market of Korea to Singapore, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Its CreditConnect model offers a convenient way of connecting data platforms with banks, expanding the concept of AI lending through a one-stop financial process that encompasses credit assessment, product delivery, and risk management. In other words, AIZEN’s CreditConnect model brings the innovation of a seamless lending service close to the daily lives of its customers, who had been forced to rely on high-interest credit because of rejections by major banks. That is what AIZEN offers to the world right now—a leading direction toward the age of change, where the finance of the future is created upon the transformation of our daily lives through technology.

Global Big Data Credit Rating and AIZEN Banking Service

The latest credit rating trend uses global big data such as China’s Zhima Credit, the United Kingdom’s Credit Kudos, Singapore’s Lendo, the United States’ Signify, and Japan’s J.Score, among others. As the center of industries moves toward the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it has become necessary to supplement the traditional credit rating. As the digital footsteps of individuals and companies overflow, it has become possible to use diverse data, which also had an impact. The new credit rating trend is changing the financial industry, and the phrase “alternative credit scoring” has become popular. Zhima Credit (China) is the credit rating company of “Ant Group,” the financial subsidiary company of Alibaba, China’s largest e-commerce company. It is also considered the world’s most valuable fintech company. Zhima Credit is regarded as having succeeded at calculating the credit scores of consumers and small- and medium-sized businesses (350–950 points) based on big data and at using nonfinancial data to compute credit scores of financially disadvantaged companies. Credit Kudos (United Kingdom) conducts credit ratings based on consumer spending data and thus provides the service of calculating the credit score necessary when applying for a loan. It also gives loans to individuals and companies, and makes credit decisions through an open banking decision engine and assembly. Meanwhile, Signify (United States) is a company that rates individuals’ credit according to their mobile phone usage behavior and uses the rating for financial goods. Thus, it provides services to clients with mobile phones but who lack credit information and, therefore, have less finance access. J.Score (Japan) was established through the merger of Japan’s SoftBank and Mizuho Financial Group. It provides loans and evaluates the ability of lenders to pay back using artificial intelligence (AI). As such, credit rating using global big data is diversifying. AIZEN is a technology that can simultaneously process in parallel thousands and hundreds of AI modules and models that can combine both financial and nonfinancial big data information. Thus, it creates the AI model necessary for “credit.” Moreover, it establishes AI banking services by providing the entire cycle required for loans, not just simple credit rating, and then assembles information of various forms, such as shopping, mobility, medical, and education, to provide loan services actual clients need and not just underwriting. AIZEN thereby completes the cycle of enabling information’s re-reflection in the underwriting policy with risk-based management. For AIZEN’s AI banking service CreditConnect, a team composed of members from global financial agencies has applied the key modules necessary for AI credit servicing. A management team that operated global portfolios as large as KRW 130 trillion for Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, and Volkswagen Financial Services makes and operates the AI loan services, firmly innovating AI finance. CreditConnect, created for global credit rating that can lead to lending, is continuously growing in Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Korea, with advanced AI banking services.