FICO® Small Business Scoring Service℠

Reliably and consistently minimize the data, time, and expense of assessing a small business applicants’ credit risk.

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Overview

Say “yes” to the right applicants faster and build a healthy portfolio of commercial accounts

FICO® Small Business Scoring Service℠ (SBSS℠) is recognized as the industry leader in assessing the risk of US small business credit applicants.

SBSS is delivered via our FICO® LiquidCredit® Service infrastructure and brings the speed of consumer lending to your small business lending decisions. With SBSS, you can make decisions in hours, not days, improving customer satisfaction and helping you attract more small businesses.

Features

With a rich feature set of advanced tools, FICO empowers business users to make faster, smarter, customer-focused decisions.

More profitable small business credit portfolios

Make decisions that balance portfolio growth with risk exposure. By knowing applicants’ risk, you can make smarter pricing and other decisions.

Make objective, consistent decisions

Ensure consistent decisions across channels and lines of business. You can demonstrate this consistency to regulators and address other legal requirements, using the solution’s score reason codes to assist in manual underwriting.

Base scoring on analysis of rich pooled data

SBSS℠ is based on a partnership with FICO clients, who contribute data used to build ever more powerful models. As clients have used these models and increased their portfolio sizes, they’ve acquired and shared new, richer data with FICO.

Variable models

Validated for term loans, line of credit transactions, and commercial cards up to US$1 million.

Define & configure policy rules

Allow institutions to automatically approve, decline, or flag applications for review. Reflect each institution's lending policies in data pulls from major consumer and commercial data sources.

Cloud-based deployment

Gets institutions up and running in several weeks, with little up-front investment.

Enabling Technologies

With 60+ years of pioneering work in predictive analytics and artificial intelligence, FICO powers our solutions with the most advanced science available.

AI, Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics

Drive small business portfolio profitability (without adding risk) through FICO’s pioneering AI and advanced analytic offerings for onboarding and origination.

Cloud

Provide small business lending that is safe, scalable, and cloud-powered to improve solution flexibility, ROI, and extensibility.

Platform

Effortless, engaging small business lending that is powered by the industry-leading FICO® Platform. Start simple for fast time-to-value, and then easily add digital sophistication.

Related resources

Gain fresh ideas and new strategies for making better business decisions with in-depth thought leadership, solution insights, and customer success stories.

Customer Development

Fact Sheet

What’s New in FICO® Small Business Scoring ServiceSM 7.0

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Customer Development

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North America Ensuring Small Businesses Survive and Recover

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Fact Sheet

Small Business Portfolio Behavior Scoring FAQ

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Make small business lending decisions in hours, not days.

Want to make faster and better small business lending decisions, improve customer and member satisfaction, and attract more profitable small businesses? Get in touch with one of our experts or request a demo.

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