Experian Credit Risk vs. MindBridge Platform

Experian credit risk is a great tool to assess your customers and take risks appropriately. It is specifically suited to underwrite your customers. It is not so well suited to predict the affluence or spend propensity of your customers.

Incentivized

MindBridge [Platform] is an excellent tool to use to gain additional comfort over client's data. The key areas it helps with are analytical procedure risk and inherent risk, but depending on the data you have, it can also be able to assess control risk to a degree. It's a very malleable tool that can be made to fit your client, however, it does require upfront work (as the implementation of any new technology would). The tool may not be scalable for audit work that is very low-risk and requires little hour input in the first place as it may add more hours in the long-run than the normal audit would incur. Our team has used these low-risk audits in our implementation, however, to corroborate the results we get, which we felt has helped us achieve our successes with the tool.

Incentivized

• Climate credit analysis
• Probability of defaulting
• Credit risk pricing

Incentivized

• Using the output from MB AI we have been able to reduce the inherent risk and analytical procedures risk assessments in our audits which have reduced our substantive testing sample sizes.
• The output from MB AI allows us to focus on the medium risk and high risk transactions that were recorded in the general ledger during the year.
• Our younger, more technologically advanced team members really enjoy working with MB AI.

• Algorithm could be more transparent
• Sometimes the recommended actions don't end up immediately increasing score
• Too costly

Incentivized

• It needs to have a deliverable Risk Analysis report, something that can be exported to a PDF and delivered to clients.
• Accounts receivable and payable analysis needs to be able to handle tiered customers and vendors.
• Exporting to PDF should be a feature. Works great for Excel.
• Needs forecasting capability in order for us to use for review engagements.
• Needs the ability to compare client to industry ratings.

The only reason I do not give this a 10 is that I would like a deliverable risk report. This would enable me to offer additional services to my non-audit clients.

My experience with customer support may different since I started using the application early on. I am also providing continuous recommendations for improvement or additional features. They have always been available when I needed them and they actually listen and value my opinion. They have implemented many of our recommendations and asked for our input on possible new features.

Experian has much wider coverage, more reliable data, and gives predictions on default rates reliably.

Incentivized

We did not consider any other similar products.

• Extracts all data from PDF format which helps us not to miss any data during [the] evaluation process
• Audit trail changes helps us to analyze anomalies
• Extremely transparent outputs to take decision

Incentivized

• Increased efficiency
• Better quality audits performed
• Coming to more reasoned conclusions that are supported by data