Verdata Joins FICO Marketplace to Help Financial Institutions Strengthen Small Business Decisioning

Verdata, a provider of small- and medium-sized business (SMB) data and risk insights for financial institutions and fintechs, today announced a strategic partnership with FICO, a global analytics software leader, through which Verdata's solutions will be available on FICO® Marketplace.

As financial institutions, payment providers, and fintechs expand their SMB portfolios, they face growing pressure to make faster, more confident decisions with data that is often fragmented, outdated, or difficult to connect.

Through FICO® Marketplace, organizations can now access Verdata's actionable data and risk insights directly within their decisioning workflows.

This enables teams to evaluate SMBs, monitor portfolio changes, and surface meaningful risk signals without relying on disconnected checks or new point-to-point integrations.

Verdata brings together 25M+ public, private, and consortium-based data records across firmographics, regulatory activity, business performance, financial indicators, principals, licensing, service reputation, and ongoing change signals.

For lenders, payment providers, marketplaces, and other organizations, these insights help to significantly reduce manual review, identify changes sooner, and support stronger decisions across onboarding, underwriting, lead scoring, compliance, and portfolio monitoring.

"Financial institutions expanding their SMB portfolios need data they can act on," said Jason Andrew, chief revenue officer at FICO.