Meet our Full Member CRIF

CRIF is a global company specializing in credit bureau and business information, outsourcing and processing services, and credit solutions. Established in 1988 in Bologna (Italy), CRIF operates in four continents (Europe, America, Africa and Asia).

CRIF people are committed to creating value, supporting businesses to perform better and consumers to manage their credit health with a comprehensive range of professional skills and solutions.

CRIF is committed to digital financial inclusion and works responsibly to offer compliant innovative solutions to support its customers to enhance access to credit, granting digital access and use of financial services by excluded and underserved people.

From strategies to solutions, CRIF works alongside banks and financial institutions, insurance companies, businesses, telco and media, and utility and energy companies in every phase of the customer relationship to achieve growth, mitigate risk, reduce end-to-end processing costs and be compliant-ready. CRIF also offers services to consumers which are specially designed to help them take informed decisions in the credit and real estate markets. CRIF helps its customers to accurately target, acquire and manage customers through timely and reliable assessment of credit and commercial risks as well as marketing. CRIF’s offerings also create value for portfolio management, through careful and constant asset monitoring, strategy definition for business expansion, and debt collection. The end-to-end credit value chain is supported by a software platform to effectively transform strategies into processes which achieve tangible results.

Thanks to its ability to develop long term partnerships with its clients, CRIF is the leader in the provision of solutions for the retail and SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) markets in Italy and in several other countries thanks to its credit bureaus which facilitate the credit underwriting process and credit access for households and businesses.