Thursday, October 6, 2011

Credit Bureaus - Trans Union

By Ganesh Hardy


Trans union is a credit ratings scoring business which has been close to since 1968. It started as a holding company ahead of getting it is very first credit score bureau which was based in Cook County, Illinois and is still based within the Illinois area though now operates out of Chicago.

Since it is very first acquisition back in 1969 the company has went on to perform a lot of other acquisitions and merges over time and has now produced it's way as much as getting the third largest corporation of it's kind and competes directly alongside the industry leaders in the credit history reference agency field.

As with any other company that has been around for this length of time it has had it is fair share of problems more than the years and there are numerous that make bold outright statements to say how the business is a fraud as they have had a negative experience with them.

Most leading organization can get this sort of negative attention these days with the use of the Internet getting widely accessible to for the vast majority in the population. When you seem to the background of any major leading company they are heading to have taken some knocks along the road. That doesn't mean that corporation doesn't do what they claim to do. If that have been the situation they wouldn't be in which they're today.

The Fair Isaac Business which is better known these days by the acronym FICO is really a industry leader during the credit ratings scoring field. However, the company methods differ.

While FICO directly deals with companies by providing a service that allows a creditor to check an applicants risk and get an insight to the likely hood of default payments arising another 3 major credit reference agencies offer their services inside a different way.

Trans Union operates with the same marketing strategy as its leading competitors Experian and Equifax by promoting their products directly towards the public. all 3 companies took the idea of the credit history scoring program according to the achievement of FICO and opened the marketplace as much as us the consumer.

Trans Union as of the other Two credit ratings reference agencies operates in line of the FCRA* & FACTA* as required by law to provide a free copy of a credit rating report to everyone. The legislations brought all three companies together to supply the free credit ratings report on the consumer in the use of annualcreditreport.com which makes it effortless for buyers to acquire a copy of their reports from 1 source.

References

*FCRA - Fair Credit history Reporting Act

*FACTA - Fair and Accurate Transaction Act

ABOUT THE AUTHOUR: Bob Bowman is the author of quite a few finance related articles or blog posts and enjoys sharing his knowledge across such a large platform and aims to educate readers in the options accessible with regards to credit ratings reports,scores along with methods to increase their credit scores.




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