Equifax, a 105-year-old company and member of the Standard & Poor’s
(S&P) 500® Index, enables and secures global commerce with consumers
and businesses. Equifax is a global leader in turning information into
intelligence, serving customers across a wide range of industries and
markets, including financial services, retail, telecommunications, utilities,
mortgage, brokerage, insurance, automotive, healthcare, direct marketing
and transportation. Equifax also enlightens, enables and empowers consumers
to manage and protect their financial health with Consumer Direct services
offered at www.equifax.com.
Equifax employs approximately 4,600 people in 13 countries: the United
States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Italy, Spain,
Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Peru and Uruguay. Equifax
is a $1.2 billion enterprise. Our shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange
under the
symbol EFX.
Our Mission Statement
To serve our customers by utilizing information and technology that provide real-time answers to increasingly complex questions.
Locations
North America’s Information Services provide value-added information solutions that help customers grow their businesses, increase profitability, manage risk and reduce costs throughout their customer relationships. Services include consumer credit information, commercial credit reporting, fraud detection, identity verification, portfolio management, risk assessment, decisioning, modeling, analytics, locate services, and debt recovery, plus industry-specific proprietary database and bankruptcy solutions.
Equifax operates in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Italy. The European product portfolio includes consumer and commercial credit reporting, modeling and analytical services, decisioning, fraud detection, identity verification, portfolio management, locate services, debt recovery, real estate information services and marketing services, which encompasses credit marketing and direct marketing. In addition, our Consumer Direct services were introduced in the United Kingdom in 2003.
In Latin America, Equifax provides consumer and commercial credit reporting, modeling, analytical services, decisioning, application processing, fraud detection, identity verification, portfolio analysis and management, and locate and debt recovery services to our customers. Equifax is the market leader in the region, with business units in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Peru and Uruguay.
Equifax Consumer Direct provides individuals access to their personal
credit information in order to enlighten, enable and empower them to better
understand, manage and protect their credit information for good financial
health. Products target more than 220 million individuals who have credit
histories in the
United States.
Equifax Marketing Services offers targeted, multichannel direct marketing solutions in the United States. Our services enable companies to acquire, retain, manage and grow customer bases. We have the country’s largest database of online and offline direct marketing information, including financial, demographic and lifestyle information. Products include postal and email addresses, database services, credit prescreening, customer modeling and analytics, product registration programs and lead development.