Credit Bureaus Help Businesses And Customers Relate
Credit reporting agencies are set up to gather financial facts
and present them in an organized fashion. They collect
information from various banks, mortgage companies, department
stores and other creditors about credit accounts and compile it
into a credit report for all the working population. This report
is used largely to determine further lending and rates on
interests on loans/credit cards. The credit agencies do not make
any lending decisions themselves. They just give preliminary
data based on which the financial agencies like banks, credit
unions take decisions.
This phenomena of using Credit Bureaus is not new in America and
has been there since 1830's.This phenomena has however come to
Asia recently only. This is the reason Credit Rating System in
USA is so very well developed and sophisticated.
In USA there are three main credit agencies:
* Equifax * Experian * Trans Union Corp
Experian is a giant with over $2 Billion in sales and works in
over 50 countries. Recently it spilt from its British parent and
is now an independent entity. It's based in Costa Mesa. Experian
has started operations in china. Its helping the Bank of China
with technical support, consultancy etc. Experian is also
present in Japan and South Korea. It provides retail data,
analysis solution also and is globally famous for as a financial
services company employing more then 12000 people.
The Experian Bureau has a database comprising credit data on
over 215 million U.S. consumers and more then 15 million U.S.
businesses. Experian's database is more than 65 terabytes or 65
trillion bytes of data. Experian also maintains database with
demographic information on over 215 million consumers and the
110 million unique dwellings they reside in, within the United
States of America.
To keep fresh and accurate, Experian Bureau ensures more than
4.5 billion updates occurring each month. Experian Bureau use
state-of-the-art technology to protect credit data and maintain
strict privacy standards. They help to make American credit
databases the most secure and accurate in the world. The Fair
Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which Experian follows closely,
also has laws in place to ensure only those with a permissible
purpose and whose identity has been verified are permitted to
view a consumer credit profile.
Experian's databases provide a whole lot of financial solutions
to clients for optimize targeting and acquiring of new clients,
managing and maximizing current client offerings. Since,
Experian provides an expertise in risk management and credit
marketing, its clients can enrich their relationships with their
own customers.
The reason Experian Bureau is so popular is that it understands
its customers extremely well. They have ingratiated the
philosophy that more data you have better will be your
understanding of your customers. It keeps a wealth of
information on its customers. They collect data analyze it and
creatively use it to connect with their customers. They offer
most unique customer information solutions to the customers.
This is the reason Experian is the Market Leader in its chosen
business.