Equifax

Equifax

At Equifax, we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics, and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping financial institutions, companies, employers, and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence. Our unique blend of differentiated data, analytics, and cloud technology drives insights to power decisions to move people forward. Headquartered in Atlanta and supported by more than 14,000 employees worldwide, Equifax operates or has investments in 24 countries in North America, Central and South America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.

Equifax maintains an extensive suite of fully configurable, cloud-native data, including unique assets like household wealth and asset data, telco-cable and utility payment data, employment and income data, digital identity data, specialty finance tradeline data, and consumer consent data. The information on 32B interactions, 600M consumers, 81M business, 4.5B trade accounts, and 500M employee files offers valuable insights.  Whether you need to assess market conditions, find new customers, open more accounts, reduce default risk, mitigate fraud or improve customer experiences – better data fuels better decisions.

Startups

Equifax helps startups with products, environments and support services that promote innovation and accelerate the development of new applications. We believe that young startup companies deserve access to the same insights and resources that larger, more established companies enjoy.

Our FinTech Startup Kit includes some of the resources available from Equifax to give new business a boost. Approved FinTech startups within the FinTech Sandbox program get special trial access to products which can make a significant impact on your business, among other helpful resources.

Available capabilities

Equifax products, built on cloud-native data fabric and scalable global platforms, use unique data and advanced analytics to deliver capabilities that help our customers gain competitive advantage.

Company Information

Products

Marketing

Equifax has numerous, differentiated offerings to help address the challenge of identifying and engaging with customers in a digital environment. Through IXI™—our exclusive network of more than 95 leading financial institutions—Equifax enables its clients to differentiate and target consumer households and neighborhoods based on proprietary measures of wealth, income, spending capacity, credit, risk, share-of-wallet, and share-of-market.

Credit

Equifax is a leader in differentiated credit data, including both traditional and alternative credit data. In addition to our traditional credit data on both consumers and businesses, Equifax has unique credit data sources, including the National Consumer Telecom & Utilities Exchange (NCTUE®), containing data on telecommunications, utility, and pay TV accounts. Equifax also has alternative credit data from the short-term lending space, through DataX.

Verifications, Fraud and Compliance

Gain confidence and know that your customers are who they say they are with data and insights that detect linkages and suspicious patterns and activity. Using these insights and customizable scoring, you can make critical decisions in real time when spotting potential fraudulent requests—often without increasing manual reviews or sacrificing customer satisfaction. Equifax helps verify and authenticate identities to help you detect and deter true name and synthetic identity fraud activity. When it comes to verifying income and employment, Equifax offerings include The Work Number®—the nation’s largest database of instantly available employment and income information. These records are contributed by thousands of U.S. employers—including more than 82 percent of the Fortune 500 and the majority of federal government civilian employers. The information is updated at every payroll cycle, so you always have access to the most current information possible the employer has provided.

Analytics

Equifax offers leading analytics capabilities for the Fintech space through Equifax Ignite™, our integrated portfolio of proprietary data and analytics solutions and capabilities that helps bring your data to life and tell its story. There are three main components of the Equifax Ignite offering:

Equifax Ignite Models and Scores: You can address specific business issues with configurable solutions created by Equifax for you.

Equifax Ignite Direct: Create your own models and scores with “DIY” access to data and tools.

Equifax Ignite Apps: Visualize big data with a marketplace of insight-driven apps.

Equifax Ignite for FinTech: Leverage a random sample of the majority of our assets keyed at the consumer level

Equifax is also an industry leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning—including our patented NeuroDecision® Technology credit scoring methodology—as well as trended data and other advanced analytics capabilities.

Marketing

Finding and engaging the right customers requires powerful insights. Equifax helps customers understand household economics to target customers through the right channels, with offers that fit their needs and financial capacity. Using proprietary, direct-measured financial and behavioral data that provide a complete picture of consumers’ financial potential, behaviors, and preferences, you can deliver offers that are as personal as they are profitable.

For B2B marketing, Equifax maintains one of the largest collections of commercial hierarchy, contact, and firmographics data. B2bConnectTM from Equifax improves commercial match rates by more than 30% to accurately identify and target commercial businesses.

We’ll work with you to engage our customers with your product and incentivize investors to check out what you offer.

Credit Risk Management

91.5 million consumers have little to no access to credit due to lack of credit activity. Equifax supports financial inclusion by helping lenders expand access to credit within their defined risk profiles. Leveraging alternative data along with traditional credit files can provide deeper visibility into subprime and “invisible” consumers. More data helps reveal opportunities. When you layer in alternative credit and consumer-permissioned data, you get up to 21% more scorable consumers.

Verifications and Fraud Mitigation

Gain confidence and know that customers are who they say they are with data and insights that detect linkages and suspicious patterns and activity. Using these insights and customizable scoring, businesses can make critical decisions in real time when spotting potential fraudulent requests—often without increasing manual reviews or sacrificing customer satisfaction. Equifax helps simplify the application process, improve authentication and compliance checks, and verify identities with digital, real-time solutions to help detect and deter true name and synthetic identity fraud activity.

Our customers can gain instant access to verifications of employment and income through The Work Number®. Get third-party verifications of employment and income provided directly from employers. Equifax is the market leader in income and employment verifications via the largest commercial repository of payroll information in the United States, with more than 144,000,000 active records and over 2.5 million employers contributing data each pay cycle.

Analytics

Equifax offers a curated portfolio of proprietary data and analytics solutions through Equifax Ignite®, and other partner data management environments. Use the tools to build models and gain insights by combining your own data with third-party data from Equifax.

Equifax is also an industry leader in artificial intelligence and machine learning—including our patented NeuroDecision® Technology credit scoring methodology—as well as trended data and other advanced analytics capabilities.

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