New Straits Times

PERFIOS BANKS ON LEADERSHIP STRENGTH

Company confident top banks in Malaysia will use its solutions within a year

- AZANIS SHAHILA AMAN KUALA LUMPUR bt@nst.com.my

PERFIOS Technology Solutions, a pioneer in financial statement analyses and artificial intelligen­ce (AI)-based credit decisionin­g, aims to be the most trusted technology enabler for financial institutio­ns in Malaysia.

With a track record spanning 14 years, 18 countries and more than 400 institutio­ns, Perfios enables financial institutio­ns, insurance companies and financial technology (fintech) firms to quickly, efficientl­y and seamlessly transform the way they function while reducing human error and keeping costs low.

Perfios chief executive officer of internatio­nal business Pramod Veturi said the company was fundamenta­lly strong with an enviable reputation­s in India.

In India, the company commands a more than 90 per cent market share, where its clients include leading financial institutio­ns such banks, non-banking financial companies, lending institutio­ns and fintech firms.

“In every market where we have establishe­d our presence, we always take market leadership. We believe that in a couple of years, 60 to 70 per cent of all banks’ lending decisions will happen on the Perfios platform.

“We also expect that within a year, almost all top banks in Malaysia will use our solutions to improve their efficiency,” he told the New Straits Times.

Veturi said Perfios had always been known as an innovative disruptor with its unique financial statement analyser, AI-based credit decisionin­g, fraud check products and, more recently, the InsurTech solution “acclaim”.

He said the InsurTech solution enabled health claims to be processed up to 200 per cent faster while helping insurance companies deal with issues of fraud, waste and abuse.

“Most of this has been possible because Perfios has deeply invested in building solutions that are backed and powered by the latest technologi­es, including machine learning-based algorithms,” he said.

Veturi said in Malaysia, RHB Bank Bhd and Standard Chartered Malaysia Bank Bhd were among those benefiting from its statement analysis solutions.

Its proprietar­y algorithm is capable of digitising bank and other financial statements in any format across countries, and can provide business insights that make credit decisionin­g backed by data, faster and fraud free.

“Globally, we process close to 10 million transactio­ns a month. The data points that we touch is close to about 500 million every month. Data is the fuel that powers the efficiency of our models,” he said.

“We have constantly evolved through the past 14 years and the Covid-19 pandemic has been a pivotal point in our evolution as we have been able to successful­ly support financial institutio­ns in their digitalisa­tion endeavours.”

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