Fair Isaac
Sector unknown·FICO · USA (SEC 10-K)·Fiscal year to 30/09/2025
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES Our business consists of two operating segments: Scores and Software.
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Banks and insurance
End markets
DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“We also derive a substantial portion of our Scores segment revenues and operating income from our contracts with the three major consumer reporting agencies in the U.S., Experian, TransUnion and Equifax, and other parties that distribute our products to certain markets.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We rely on relatively few customers, as well as our contracts with the three major consumer reporting agencies, for a significant portion of our revenues and profits. Many of our customers are significantly larger than we are and may have greater bargaining power.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“Our models are continually improved using a proprietary, global data set of transaction data contributed by more than 10,000 institutions that participate in the FICO® Falcon® Intelligence Network.”
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Market
“Our Scores segment includes our business-to-business (“B2B”) scoring solutions and services which give our clients access to predictive credit and other scores that can be easily integrated into their transaction streams and decision-making processes.”
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“Scores Our B2B scoring solutions include the FICO® Score, which is the standard measure of consumer credit risk in the U.S. It is used in most U.S. credit decisions, by nearly all major banks, credit card issuers, mortgage lenders, and auto loan originators.”
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“Table of Contents In addition to the FICO® Score, we offer several other broad-based scores, including specific FICO® Industry Scores. For example, in 2021 we introduced Bankcard and Auto Industry versions of FICO® Score 10.”
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“We also develop various custom scores for our financial services clients.”
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“Software Our software harnesses the power of analytics and digital decisioning technology to help businesses automate, improve, and connect decisions across their enterprise. Most of our solutions address customer engagement, including acquisition and pricing, onboarding, servicing and management, and fraud protection.”
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“•FICO® Originations Solution is an application-to-decision credit originations solution. It enables banks, credit unions, finance companies, online lenders, auto lenders, and other companies to automate and improve the processing of requests for credit.”
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“•FICO® Strategy Director and FICO® TRIAD® Customer Manager enable businesses to automate and improve risk-based decisions for their existing credit customers. These products help businesses apply advanced analytics in credit account and customer decisions to increase portfolio revenue and reduce risk exposure and losses, while improving customer retention.”
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“•Software. This segment includes pre-configured analytic and decision management solutions designed for a specific type of business need or process — such as account origination, customer management, customer engagement, fraud detection, and marketing — as well as associated professional services.”
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“The Company’s scoring services include both business-to-business and business-to-consumer offerings. The Company’s business-to-business scoring services typically include a license that grants consumer reporting agencies the right to use the scoring solutions in exchange for a usage-based royalty.”
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Market
“Our largest market segment is financial services, representing 92% of our total revenue during fiscal 2025.”
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Market
“Revenues collectively generated by agreements with these customers accounted for 51%, 45% and 41% of our total revenues in fiscal 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively, with all three consumer reporting agencies each contributing more than 10% of our total revenues in each of fiscal 2025, 2024 and 2023.”
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Market
“A significant portion of our revenues are derived from the sales of products and services to the financial services industries.”
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Artificial intelligence
Technology
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Our revenues will decline if the market does not continue to accept these products and services. Factors that might affect the market acceptance of these products and services include the following: •changes in the business analytics industry; •changes in technology, including increased use of artificial intelligence (“AI”); •our inability to obtain or use key data for our products; •saturation or contraction of market demand; •loss of key customers; •industry consolidation; •failure to successfully adopt cloud-based technologies; •our inability to obtain regulatory approvals for our products and services, including credit score models; •the increasing availability of free or relatively inexpensive consumer credit, credit score and other information from public or commercial sources, including those that use AI technologies; •failure to execute our selling approach; and •inability to successfully sell our products in new vertical markets.”
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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“A significant and growing number of our software solutions run natively on FICO® Platform, a modular software offering designed to support advanced analytics and decisioning use cases. While not all our software runs on FICO Platform today, we are continuing to invest significant development resources to enable substantially all of our software to run on FICO Platform in the future.”
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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“Our goal is to move substantially all of FICO’s current software products onto FICO® Platform. Many capabilities of FICO’s current software products are now part of FICO Platform, addressing use cases such as origination, fraud detection, customer management, and next best action, among others.”
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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“We have increasingly focused our Software segment’s business strategy on investing significant development resources to enable substantially all of our software to run on FICO® Platform, our modular software offering designed to enable advanced analytics and decisioning use cases. This business strategy is designed to enable us to increase our business by selling multiple connectable and extensible products to clients, and to allow our clients to more easily expand their usage and the use cases they enable over time.”
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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“Table of Contents Our revenue growth and the success of our business strategy depend upon our ability to enhance and improve existing products and services, and to continue to introduce new products and services that keep pace with technological developments, satisfy increasingly sophisticated customer requirements and achieve market acceptance. If we are unable to develop new, enhanced or improved products and services, including those that utilize AI technologies, or if we are not successful in introducing such products and services, we may not be able to grow our business or growth may occur more slowly than we anticipate.”
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“Our Software segment includes pre-configured analytic and decision management solutions designed for a specific type of business need or process — such as account origination, customer management, customer engagement, fraud detection, and marketing — as well as associated professional services. This segment also includes FICO® Platform, a modular software offering designed to support advanced analytic and decision use cases, as well as stand-alone analytic and decisioning software that can be configured by our customers to address a wide variety of business use cases.”
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Chains out: this strengthens Data centres, strengthens Semiconductors and electronic components, strengthens Semiconductor industry
Premium consumers
End markets
Market
“This segment also includes our business-to-consumer (“B2C”) scoring solutions, including our myFICO.com subscription offerings.”
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“Through myFICO.com and other direct-to-consumer channels, consumers can purchase their FICO Scores, including credit reports associated with the scores, explanations of the factors affecting their scores, and customized educational information on how to manage their scores. Consumers can use products to simulate how taking specific actions could affect their FICO Score.”
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“Our B2C scores are sold directly to consumers through our myFICO.com website and other direct-to-consumer channels.”
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“We also provide FICO® Scores to consumers in the U.S. through our B2C scoring solutions. These Scores are distributed directly by us through our myFICO.com subscription offering and indirectly through our licensed distribution partners, including Experian and certain lenders through the FICO® Score Open Access Program.”
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Market
“We also sell our scores and credit monitoring directly to consumers through our myFICO.com on-line subscription offerings.”
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“Business-to-consumer offerings provide consumers with access to their FICO® Scores and credit reports, as well as other value-add services. These are provided as either a one-time or ongoing subscription service renewed monthly or annually, all with a fixed consideration.”
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Chains in: Consumer spending strengthens
United States
Geography
Market
“If use of the FICO® Score by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were to cease or decline, it could have a material adverse effect on our revenues, results of operations and stock price. A significant portion of our revenues in our Scores segment is attributable to the U.S. mortgage market, which includes, for mortgages eligible for purchase by The Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie Mae”) and The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”), a requirement by those enterprises that U.S. lenders provide FICO® Scores for each mortgage delivered to them.”
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Market
“End users of our products include three-quarters of each of the largest 100 financial institutions in the U.S. and the largest 100 banks in the world.”
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Geography
“Our largest geographic market is the Americas, representing 87% of our total revenue during fiscal 2025.”
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Geography
“During fiscal 2025, 23% of our revenues were derived from business outside the U.S.”
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Geography
“The following tables provide information about disaggregated revenue by primary geographical market: Year Ended September 30, 2025 Scores Software Total Percentage (Dollars in thousands) Americas $ 1,154,470 $ 577,915 $ 1,732,385 87 % Europe, Middle East and Africa 6,984 152,819 159,803 8 % Asia Pacific Percentage (Dollars in thousands) Americas $ 905,266 $ 544,622 $ 1,449,888 84 % Europe, Middle East and Africa 5,908 163,618 169,526 10 % Asia Pacific Percentage (Dollars in thousands) Americas $ 763,874 $ 523,076 $ 1,286,950 85 % Europe, Middle East and Africa 5,802 135,562 141,364 9 % Asia Pacific 4,152 81,091 85,243 6 % Total $ 773,828 $ 739,729 $ 1,513,557 100 % The following table provides information about disaggregated revenue for on-premises and SaaS software within our Software segment by deployment method:”
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Chains in: USD vs DKK/EUR mixed effect
Business cycle and GDP growth
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Our customers, and therefore our business and revenues, are sensitive to negative changes in general economic conditions and lending activities.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Table of Contents Purchases of technology products and services and decisioning solutions are subject to adverse economic conditions. When an economy is struggling, companies in many industries delay or reduce technology purchases, and we experience softened demand for our decisioning solutions and other products and services.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Furthermore, the volume of our Scores sales depends heavily on macroeconomic conditions that are hard to forecast, including, for example, the volume of transactions in the U.S. mortgage and credit card markets, which account for a significant portion of the revenues in our Scores segment.”
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“The FICO® Resilience Index offering is designed to complement FICO® Score models by identifying those consumers who are more resilient to economic stress relative to other consumers within the same FICO Score bands. The FICO Resilience Index is designed to enable lenders to continue to lend and better manage risk by providing a more precise assessment of loan default risk during periods of economic stress.”
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Chains out: this strengthens Global trade volumes, strengthens Construction
Consumer spending
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Our customers, and therefore our business and revenues, are sensitive to negative changes in general economic conditions and lending activities.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Furthermore, the volume of our Scores sales depends heavily on macroeconomic conditions that are hard to forecast, including, for example, the volume of transactions in the U.S. mortgage and credit card markets, which account for a significant portion of the revenues in our Scores segment.”
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Market
“Originations capabilities are available on FICO® Platform. •FICO® Customer Communication Service is an intelligent omnichannel digital communication manager for resolving customer interactions. It enables businesses to automate individualized customer dialogues with the same consistency and regulatory compliance as their human agents.”
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“In addition, our consumer solutions are marketed to more than 200 million U.S. consumers whose credit relationships are reported to the three major U.S. consumer reporting agencies.”
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Chains in: Inflation weakens
Chains out: this strengthens Retail, strengthens Hospitality and leisure, strengthens Premium consumers, strengthens Grocery retail and private label
Cyber attacks and IT security risk
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Under the FTC Act, the FTC’s jurisdiction includes the ability to bring enforcement actions based on the security measures we employ to safeguard the personal data of consumers. Allegations that we failed to safeguard or handle such data in a reasonable manner may subject us to regulatory scrutiny or enforcement action.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework; the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act; cyber incident notice requirements for banks and their service providers under rules and regulations issued by federal banking regulators; cybersecurity incident disclosure requirements for public companies under regulations issued by the SEC; and identity theft, file freezing, and similar state privacy laws.”
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“Consumers can also subscribe to credit monitoring, which delivers alerts via email and text when changes to a user’s FICO Scores or other credit report content are detected. In addition, consumers can purchase identity theft monitoring products that alert them to potential risks of identity fraud.”
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“Key FICO solutions currently offered include: •FICO® Fraud Solutions empower organizations to safeguard the business and their customers from payments fraud and application fraud. Leveraging advanced analytic capabilities on a large scale and in real-time, FICO Fraud Solutions identify fraud and enable strategies designed to prevent fraud across payment cards, money transfers, and instances where stolen or synthetic identities are exploited to open accounts.”
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Chains out: this strengthens Cybersecurity (products and services)
Subscription models
Technology
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“We typically sell our software as multi-year subscriptions, with payments based on usage metrics such as the number of accounts, transactions or decisioning use cases deployed, often subject to contracted minimum payments.”
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Market
“The Company’s revenue is primarily derived from on-premises software and software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions, professional services, and scoring services.”
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Market
“For on-premises software, which includes a term-based license and post-contract support or maintenance, the transaction price is either a fixed fee, or a usage-based fee — sometimes subject to a guaranteed minimum. Any usage-based fees not subject to a guaranteed minimum or earned in excess of the minimum amount are recognized when the subsequent usage occurs.”
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“Our SaaS products provide customers with access to and standard support for our software on a subscription basis, delivered through our own infrastructure or third-party cloud services. The SaaS transaction contracts typically include a guaranteed minimum fee per period that allows up to a certain level of usage and a consumption-based variable fee in excess of the minimum threshold; or a consumption-based variable fee not subject to a minimum threshold.”
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Currency exposure
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Additionally, some of our business is and will be conducted in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. Substantial movements in foreign exchange rates relative to the dollar could adversely impact our cash flows, results of operations and financial position.”
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DriverMixed impact: mixed
“Foreign Currency Forward Contracts We maintain a program to manage our foreign exchange rate risk on existing foreign-currency-denominated receivable and cash balances by entering into forward contracts to sell or buy foreign currencies.”
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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“We utilize derivative instruments to manage market risks associated with fluctuations in certain foreign currency exchange rates as they relate to specific balances of accounts receivable and cash denominated in foreign currencies. We principally utilize foreign currency forward contracts to protect against market risks arising in the normal course of business.”
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Labour and wages
Raw materials and inputs
InputNegative impact: weakens
“HUMAN CAPITAL RESOURCES Our People As of September 30, 2025, we employed 3,811 persons across 28 countries. Of these, our largest representation included 1,335 (35%) based in the U.S., 1,506 (40%) based in India and 271 (7%) based in the U.K.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“The failure to recruit and retain qualified personnel could hinder our ability to successfully manage our business. Table of Contents Our business strategy and our future success will depend in large part on our ability to attract and retain experienced sales, consulting, research and development, marketing, technical support and management personnel. The labor market for these individuals, particularly in the complex disciplines of enterprise platform sales, software engineering, data science, AI and cybersecurity, is very competitive due to the limited number of people available with the necessary skills and understanding to build, sell and support our complex products and it may become more competitive with general market growth.”
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StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“Examples of organizational changes that have been driven by the insights from these surveys include investments in expanded workforce capacity, broadened and more frequent company-wide communications, increased employee stock ownership by significantly expanding the recipients of equity-based awards and encouraging all employees to take advantage of our Employee Stock Purchase Plan, expanded benefit programs including paid parental leave, well-being, family building, childcare reimbursement and company-funded transportation programs, enhanced incentive plan funding, and expanded investments in professional development targeting leadership and technical skills, as well as initiatives to promote a culture where all employees feel welcome at work. Our engagement scores have steadily strengthened and we have enjoyed strong workforce retention over the past year.”
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Retail
End markets
Market
“Software Our software harnesses the power of analytics and digital decisioning technology to help businesses automate, improve, and connect decisions across their enterprise. Most of our solutions address customer engagement, including acquisition and pricing, onboarding, servicing and management, and fraud protection.”
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Market
“Originations capabilities are available on FICO® Platform. •FICO® Customer Communication Service is an intelligent omnichannel digital communication manager for resolving customer interactions. It enables businesses to automate individualized customer dialogues with the same consistency and regulatory compliance as their human agents.”
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Market
“Our clients also include more than 600 insurers, including eight of the top ten U.S. property and casualty insurers; more than 300 retailers and general merchandisers; and more than 200 government or public agencies.”
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Chains in: Consumer spending strengthens
Industrial manufacturing
End markets
Market
“We also help businesses improve non-customer facing decisions such as supply chain optimization, scheduling management and policy adherence.”
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Market
“•Software. This segment includes pre-configured analytic and decision management solutions designed for a specific type of business need or process — such as account origination, customer management, customer engagement, fraud detection, and marketing — as well as associated professional services.”
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Automotive
End markets
Market
“Table of Contents In addition to the FICO® Score, we offer several other broad-based scores, including specific FICO® Industry Scores. For example, in 2021 we introduced Bankcard and Auto Industry versions of FICO® Score 10.”
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Digital payments and fintech
Technology
Market
“Our Scores segment includes our business-to-business (“B2B”) scoring solutions and services which give our clients access to predictive credit and other scores that can be easily integrated into their transaction streams and decision-making processes.”
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Global trade volumes
Macro
Market
“End users of our products include three-quarters of each of the largest 100 financial institutions in the U.S. and the largest 100 banks in the world.”
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Chains in: Tariffs and trade policy weakens, Geopolitical uncertainty weakens, Business cycle and GDP growth strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens Shipping and logistics
Insurance premiums and reinsurance
Raw materials and inputs
Market
“Our clients also include more than 600 insurers, including eight of the top ten U.S. property and casualty insurers; more than 300 retailers and general merchandisers; and more than 200 government or public agencies.”
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M&A and consolidation
Macro
Market
“Seven of the top ten companies on the 2025 Fortune 500 list use one or more of our solutions.”
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Public sector
End markets
Market
“Our clients also include more than 600 insurers, including eight of the top ten U.S. property and casualty insurers; more than 300 retailers and general merchandisers; and more than 200 government or public agencies.”
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Shipping and logistics
End markets
Market
“We also help businesses improve non-customer facing decisions such as supply chain optimization, scheduling management and policy adherence.”
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Chains in: Carbon tax and ETS prices weakens, Global trade volumes strengthens, Fuel strengthens
Financial regulation
Regulation
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Table of Contents GOVERNMENTAL REGULATION We are subject to a number of U.S. federal, state, local and foreign laws and regulations that involve matters central to our business. Laws and governmental regulation affect how our business is conducted and, in some cases, subject us to the possibility of government supervision or enforcement and future lawsuits arising from our products and services.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) gives California residents certain privacy rights in the collection and disclosure of their personal information and requires businesses to make certain disclosures and take certain other acts in furtherance of those rights. Additionally, effective January 1, 2023, the California Privacy Rights Act (the “CPRA”) revised and significantly expanded the scope of the CCPA.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act ("GLBA") regulates, among other things, the receipt, use, disclosure, and security of non-public personal information of consumers held by “financial institutions” and applies indirectly to companies that provide services to financial institutions. As a provider of services to financial institutions, portions of our business are subject to obligations to comply with certain GLBA provisions, including limitations on the use or disclosure of the underlying data and rules relating to the technological, physical and administrative safeguarding of non-public personal information.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (“Dodd-Frank Act”) prohibits unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices (“UDAAP”) with respect to the offering of consumer financial products and services and provides the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “CFPB”) with authority to enforce those provisions as well as certain enumerated federal consumer financial laws. In certain circumstances, the CFPB also has examination and supervision powers with respect to service providers who provide a material service to a covered financial institution offering consumer financial products and services.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Further, the CFPB has authority to issue rules designating non-depository “larger participants” in certain markets for consumer financial services and products for purposes of the CFPB’s supervisory authority under the Dodd-Frank Act, which the CFPB has done for several markets including the consumer reporting market. Such designated “larger participants” are subject to reporting and on-site compliance examinations by the CFPB, which may result in increased compliance costs and potentially greater enforcement risks based on these supervisory activities.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Fair Credit Reporting Act (the “FCRA”) applies to consumer reporting agencies, as well as data furnishers, and users of consumer reports such as banks and other companies, many of which are our customers. The FCRA provisions govern the accuracy, fairness and privacy of information in the files of consumer reporting agencies that engage in the practice of assembling or evaluating information relating to consumers for certain specified purposes.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The FCRA limits the type of information that may be reported by consumer reporting agencies, limits the distribution and use of consumer reports, establishes consumer rights to access and dispute their own credit files, includes provisions designed to prevent identity theft and assist fraud victims, requires consumer reporting agencies to make a free annual credit report available to consumers and imposes many other requirements on consumer reporting agencies, data furnishers and users of consumer report information. These requirements can affect the manner and extent to which our customers use our products and services.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Additional laws and regulations in the U.S. and abroad that may affect our business and our current and prospective customers’ activities include, but are not limited to, those in the following significant regulatory areas: •Laws and regulations that limit the use of credit scoring models (e.g., state “mortgage trigger” or “inquiries” laws, state insurance restrictions on the use of credit-based insurance scores, and the E.U.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Consumer Credit Directive). •Fair lending laws (e.g., the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Regulation B, and the Fair Housing Act) and laws and regulations that may impose requirements relating to algorithmic fairness or accountability. •Laws and regulations related to data and cybersecurity, such as the Cybersecurity Act of 2015; the U.S.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“If other credit score models are approved for use with mortgages delivered to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, or the FICO Score is not approved for continued use with those mortgages, it could have a material adverse effect on our revenues, results of operations and stock price. Other changes implemented by FHFA, Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac could also affect the demand for FICO Scores and thus could have similar adverse effects on our business, including, for example, the change announced by the FHFA Director in July 2025 permitting mortgage originators to choose the credit score they submit with mortgages delivered to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or a potential future change permitting mortgage originators to underwrite loans using credit scores from fewer than three national consumer reporting agencies.”
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AI regulation
Regulation
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The European Commission has finalized the EU AI Act, which establishes requirements for the provision and use of products that leverage AI systems, including in credit scoring. The EU AI Act entered into force on August 1, 2024 and its provisions take effect between six and 36 months after that date, with most of those provisions becoming effective in 2026.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Consumer Credit Directive). •Fair lending laws (e.g., the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Regulation B, and the Fair Housing Act) and laws and regulations that may impose requirements relating to algorithmic fairness or accountability. •Laws and regulations related to data and cybersecurity, such as the Cybersecurity Act of 2015; the U.S.”
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IT operations and cloud
Raw materials and inputs
InputNegative impact: weakens
“Our ability to provide reliable products and services to our customers depends on the efficient and uninterrupted operation of our and our external service providers’ data centers, information technology and communication systems. Any disruption of or interference with our use of data centers, information technology or communication systems of our external service providers would adversely affect our operations and our business.”
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InputNegative impact: weakens
“Our purchase obligations primarily relate to a third-party data center hosting agreement, subscription arrangements, and service agreements.”
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Cybersecurity (products and services)
Technology
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Operational Risks If our cybersecurity measures are compromised or unauthorized access to customer or consumer data is otherwise obtained, our products and services may be perceived as not being secure, customers may curtail or cease their use of our products and services, our reputation may be damaged and we could incur significant liabilities. Because our business requires the storage, transmission and utilization of sensitive consumer and customer information, we will continue to routinely be the target of attempted cybersecurity and other security threats by technically sophisticated and well-resourced outside third parties, among others, attempting to access or steal the data we store.”
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Chains in: Cyber attacks and IT security risk strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens Digitalisation
Tariffs and trade policy
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“There has been increased regulatory focus in the U.S. related to the transparency and fairness of certain fees charged to consumers in connection with the closing of a residential mortgage loan, including fees for credit reports and credit scores. If new laws, regulations or other governmental action limit the fees that can be charged for credit scores by us, consumer reporting agencies, or end users of our FICO® Scores, or that place other restrictions on the sale or distribution of credit scores, our ability in the future to increase pricing for FICO Scores used in mortgage originations may be impacted and thus the revenues and profitability of the FICO Score may be adversely affected and the growth of our Scores business may be constrained.”
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DriverNegative impact: weakens
“As global economic conditions experience stress and negative volatility, including any stress or negative volatility related to the imposition of, and threatened imposition of, tariffs and retaliatory tariffs, economic sanctions and increased trade tensions or if there is an escalation in regional or global conflicts, or terrorism, we will likely experience reductions in the number of available customers and in capital expenditures by our remaining customers, longer sales cycles, deferral or delay of purchase commitments for our products and increased price competition, which may adversely affect our business, results of operations and liquidity.”
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Chains in: Geopolitical uncertainty strengthens
Chains out: this weakens Global trade volumes
Data centres
Technology
InputNegative impact: weakens
“Our purchase obligations primarily relate to a third-party data center hosting agreement, subscription arrangements, and service agreements.”
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Chains in: Artificial intelligence strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens Electricity, strengthens Copper
ESG and sustainability reporting
Regulation
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Many U.S. and foreign jurisdictions have passed, or are currently contemplating, a variety of consumer protection, data privacy, and cyber and data security laws and regulations that may relate to our business or the business of our customers or affect the demand for our products and services.”
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EU climate and energy policy
Regulation
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“For example, the GDPR in the E.U. and the U.K. imposes strict obligations and restrictions on the collection and use of E.U. and U.K. personal data, and also on the transfer of such data to countries that have not been determined by the E.U. or the U.K. to provide adequate data privacy protections, unless there are additional approved transfer safeguards in place (such as the use of “standard contractual clauses” and the performance of appropriate data transfer impact assessments). Our implementation of processes to meet such requirements for affected data flows may involve additional compliance costs associated with maintaining appropriate regulatory certifications, performing any necessary assessments, engaging in contract negotiations with third parties and implementing approved standard contractual clauses, and/or (if appropriate) localizing certain data processing activities.”
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Chains out: this strengthens Circular economy and recycling, strengthens Energy efficiency
Geopolitical uncertainty
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“As global economic conditions experience stress and negative volatility, including any stress or negative volatility related to the imposition of, and threatened imposition of, tariffs and retaliatory tariffs, economic sanctions and increased trade tensions or if there is an escalation in regional or global conflicts, or terrorism, we will likely experience reductions in the number of available customers and in capital expenditures by our remaining customers, longer sales cycles, deferral or delay of purchase commitments for our products and increased price competition, which may adversely affect our business, results of operations and liquidity.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains out: this strengthens Defence budgets, strengthens Energy security, strengthens Tariffs and trade policy, weakens Global trade volumes, strengthens Sea freight and freight rates, weakens Reconstruction of Ukraine
Europe
Geography
Geography
“Outside the U.S., we offer FICO® Scores for consumer loans, and in some cases for small and medium business loans. These scores are typically sold to end-users through consumer reporting agencies in those countries, as they are in the U.S.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Geography
“Outside of the U.S., we sell our scores through consumer reporting agencies, other third-party distributors, and in some cases directly to large end-users.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Interest rates
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The funds provide daily liquidity and may be subject to interest rate risk and fall in value if market interest rates increase. We do not expect our operating expenses to be affected to any significant degree by a sudden change in market interest rates.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: Public debt and fiscal policy strengthens, Inflation strengthens
Chains out: this weakens Construction, weakens Real estate, weakens Wind power, weakens Housing market, weakens Office and commercial property, weakens Residential rental, weakens Residential construction
Nordics
Geography
Geography
“Our largest geographic market is the Americas, representing 87% of our total revenue during fiscal 2025.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Competitors mentioned in the report
No named competitors in the report.
Financial figures
| Revenue latest fiscal year | 1.99 bn USD |
| Revenue growth vs. the year before, same method | 15.9 % |
| EBITDA reported by the company | 0.94 bn USD |
| Net debt debt incl. leasing minus cash | 2.95 bn USD |
| Diluted EPS per share | 26.54 USD |
Source: 10-K (SEC) A. See the report
Criteria
| Profit | ✓ |
| Growing | ✓ |
| Healthy balance sheet | ✗ |
Only the criteria that can be computed from financial statements on this page. The remaining criteria (such as price and dividend) need a share price and are in the analysis.
Figures are in the report's currency (USD), not converted to DKK. Quotes are shown as the company's own words in English.