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IHS Inc. Reports First Quarter 2013 Results

Posted by Joachim Bartels | Apr 8, 2013 | Analytics, Business Information, IHS Inc., Risk Solutions - Prediction, United States |

IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), a leading global source of information and analytics, reported results for the first quarter ended February 28, 2013 Revenue of $383 million, up 12 percent from the prior-year period Organic revenue growth...

Consumer Education in Responsible Financial Management is Important

Posted by Joachim Bartels | Apr 7, 2013 | Consumer Credit Information, Credit Scoring & Decision System, FICO (Fair Isaac), Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy, Uncategorized, United States |

Importance of Financial Literacy: Credit scores improve as ‘new-to-credit’ consumers gain credit experience! What’s the credit profile of “new-to-credit” consumers? FICO staff recently presented new research on this topic...

TransUnion Reveals a Third of Americans Have Not Checked Their Credit in a Year… or Ever

Posted by Joachim Bartels | Apr 7, 2013 | Consumer Credit Information, Credit Scoring & Decision System, Fraud Solutions, Identity Theft Protection, TransUnion, United States |

A recent Q4 2012 Zogby Analytics survey commissioned by TransUnion found that a third (33.9 percent) of all Americans surveyed said they had not checked their credit in the last year (21.7 percent) or never checked their credit...

E-Commerce: Alibaba and MasterCard sign MoU

Posted by Joachim Bartels | Apr 6, 2013 | Alibaba, Alipay, China, E-Commerce, Payment Services, Uncategorized |

Alibaba Group and MasterCard have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreeing to collaborate in e-commerce business in the future. Under the terms of the MoU, the two companies aim to join forces to establish an enhanced...