Fivetran selected by Oakbrook Finance to support real-time lending decisions and AI-ready data operations.
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Fivetran selected by Oakbrook Finance to support real-time lending decisions and AI-ready data operations. Fivetran, the data foundation for AI, today announced that specialist UK consumer lender Oakbrook Finance has selected the company to centralise and govern data across its analytics estate. The deployment supports customer insight, product development, marketing effectiveness and machine learning workflows, while saving Oakbrook's data engineering team approximately three months of build time. Founded in 2011, Oakbrook is a specialist consumer lender serving near-prime and non-prime borrowers across the UK who are typically overlooked by mainstream banks. The business has lent more than £1.5 billion to UK customers and currently serves around 140,000 active borrowers. A significant share of applications comes through price comparison platforms, where Oakbrook typically has less than 10 seconds to ingest data, run its models, and return an offer. "Our data engineering team is lean and deliberately focused. Before Fivetran, a meaningful chunk of their time was spent maintaining pipelines rather than building things that move the business forward," said Ed Ball, Head of Data and Security at Oakbrook. "Fivetran has let us connect data sources we wouldn't have reached otherwise, which has materially expanded what we can analyse and model, from customer behaviour through...
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