Fair Isaac China

I said a week ago that I didn't want to turn this into a China online payments blog. However, the stories continue to flow in and I noticed this one on the China Payments News site about Fair Isaac's plans to open an office in Beijing.

Not only is this a company with one of the wackier names in the B2B online world, but it offers "data management services and predictive analytic systems that bring complete customer information and more intelligence to every decision, and decision management systems that implement decision strategies in a real-time environment for faster, more consistent and accurate decisions". That may be one full stop short of a good sentence and rather hard to understand but the significance to me is that the banks and service providers are gearing up in China for serious e-commerce.