Fiserv, SRA and Moody’s Analytics Partner to Expand Data-Driven Offerings

Fiserv, Inc., a leading global provider of payments and financial services technology solutions, and its two most recent partnerships in this area, with Strategic Risk Associates (SRA), a risk and performance technology solution and risk consulting services leader, and Moody's Analytics, a provider of industry-leading financial intelligence and analytical tools to help business leaders make better, faster decisions, are expanding its existing data-driven offerings.

"The secret sauce of an effective decision management platform is transforming good data into information. This requires integrating systems of record like core platforms and payment systems with analytical modeling capabilities, then making that information easily accessible to financial institution decision makers,"said Danny Baker, Vice President of Market Strategy at Fiserv.

"We're doing the heavy lifting for our clients by partnering with providers like SRA and Moody's Analytics to ensure the reliable, real-time source data from Fiserv core platforms, financial accounting solutions, and payments and channels solutions is available seamlessly within a strategic risk management platform and dashboarding toolkit."

"Financial Institutions need to make accelerated, informed, and sound decisions,"said Michael B. Glotz, Co-Founder and CEO of Strategic Risk Associates."Together with Fiserv we will enhance our risk solutions and data analytics to optimize the decision-making processes for our mutual clients. Our goal is to offer a cutting-edge digital risk office to help financial institutions meet their risk management, growth and profitability objectives."

The Fiserv collaboration with Moody's Analytics builds on the risk management backgrounds and expertise of both companies. Fiserv clients may license Moody's Analytics' powerful OnlineALM solution that integrates traditional forecasting and interest rate risk with liquidity risk management, funds transfer pricing, investment management, and business reporting. Financial institutions can also layer on economic scenarios to gain insights into several possible futures. A SaaS deployment model will allow financial institutions to streamline operations as it does not require any infrastructure investment or maintenance.

"Economic uncertainty is the key reason most financial institutions stress test their balance sheets and income statements, to see if they can survive financial crisis,"said Ed Young, Senior Director at Moody's Analytics."Full transparency and advanced modeling techniques deliver key metrics for financial institutions to make better business decisions faster, which is the hallmark of our set of data, analytics and unique insights solutions."