Costa Mesa, Calif., July 31, 2025 – Experian today announced the launch of Experian Assistant for Model Risk Management, a first-of-its-kind solution to help financial institutions govern and manage models more efficiently across the entire model‑development lifecycle. Fully integrated into the Experian Ascend PlatformTM and powered by ValidMind technology, this solution helps accelerate model validation, improve auditability and transparency, and may aid financial institutions in reducing regulatory and reputational risk. This launch follows last October’s introduction of the award-winning Experian Assistant and its AI-enabled model-lifecycle features.
“Manual documentation, siloed validations and limited performance model monitoring can increase risk and slow down model deployment,” said Vijay Mehta, EVP, Global Solutions and Analytics, Experian Software Solutions. “Adhering to model-risk-management guidelines can be a tremendous strategic advantage for financial institutions when they can create, review and validate documentation quickly and at scale, and this new solution offers these capabilities.”
As financial institutions accelerate innovation, they must balance the move toward GenAI-enabled capabilities with compliance to global model-risk-management guidelines such as SR 11-7 (US) and SS1/23 (UK). Experian Assistant for Model Risk Management offers financial institutions with customizable, pre-defined templates, centralized model governance repositories, and transparent internal workflow approvals—empowering them to meet regulatory guidelines with confidence and efficiency.
“Our partnership with Experian represents a major step forward in operationalizing AI for governance and model risk management,” said ValidMind CEO Jonas Jacobi. “By embedding ValidMind’s automation and governance capabilities into the Experian Assistant for Model Risk Management, we’re helping financial institutions move faster and satisfy regulator expectations.”
“The combination of Experian’s commercial expertise and presence with ValidMind’s technology provides the foundation for scalable and explainable AI across the credit and risk lifecycle,” said Sid Dash, Chief Researcher at Chartis. “This partnership addresses a growing industry imperative – the need to establish proper AI governance that aligns with an evolving technology and regulatory environment and provides a framework for institutions to modernize their model risk practices.”
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