Category Archives: Analytics

Value of Credit Information: TransUnion Sold for 3x Revenue in the Largest Leveraged Buy-out Deal of the Year

The Pritzker family and Madison Dearborn are Selling TransUnion:  After several years of trying the Pritzker Family finally made their exit from TransUnion.   According to Bloomberg the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS)’s buyout unit and Advent International Corp. acquired TransUnion … Continue reading

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Dow Jones Introduces News Analytics

Dow Jones has introduced News Analytics, a series of product solutions to help traders, quantitative analysts and risk managers build better, more predictable trading models based on news sentiment.  News sentiment analytics quantify the impact of market-moving news, in real … Continue reading

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S&P Capital IQ Acquires R2 Financial Technologies, Adding Capabilities in Portfolio and Enterprise Risk Analytics

S&P Capital IQ, a business of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) offering multi-asset class data, research and analytics to global markets and investors, today announced it has acquired R2 Financial Technologies, a leading provider of advanced risk and scenario-based analytics … Continue reading

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LexisNexis® Launches New Advanced Scoring, Attributes, Data Analytics and Vendor Management Solutions for the Receivables Management Industry

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions announced the availability of new receivables management solutions that will help debt buyers, collection law firms and agencies improve their collection efforts, drive greater workflow efficiency, and increase overall profitability. LexisNexis introduced LexisNexis® Scoring Solutions and Collect … Continue reading

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D&B Reports 5% Revenue Growth for 2011

Core revenue for the full year 2011 was $1,758.5 million. This result is up 5% from the prior year similar period, before the effect of foreign exchange, (up 7% after the effect of foreign exchange). Operating income before non-core gains … Continue reading

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Experian Automotive Launches Business Intelligence Tool

Experian Automotive launches business intelligence tool that delivers unique insights into automotive market Experian Automotive launched VelocitySM at the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) convention. Velocity is an online business intelligence tool that combines extensive automotive data with advanced analytics, … Continue reading

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D&B Appoints Paul D. Ballew Chief Data and Analytics Officer

Almost unnoticed and without fanfare D&B is ramping up its data and analytics capabilities by hiring Paul D. Ballew as Chief Data and Analytics Officer.    He will be responsible for global data and information management, customer analytics, predictive analytics and … Continue reading

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