Acxiom Helps Credit Grantors Fight Identity Fraud
June 19 2006 - 10:05AM
Business Wire
Acxiom(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ACXM) today announced that,
effective June 1, MicroBilt's online decision management engine at
CreditCommander.com has been enhanced to include identity fraud
verification services from Acxiom Insight. Verifying an applicant's
identity before granting credit protects consumers from identity
fraud and credit grantors from taking on unnecessary risk and is a
win-win value proposition. Today, MicroBilt helps thousands of
credit grantors process millions of applications in real time.
Authorized users of the CreditCommander.com service will now enjoy
seamless access to Acxiom's unmatched fraud information database
and analytics in their efforts to prevent fraud. "This is a one-two
punch against fraud," said Jeff Stalnaker, Acxiom's leader for
Client Services in the financial services industry. "Combining
Acxiom's strong data and analytics services with
CreditCommander.com's decision management service offers banks,
credit unions, insurance companies, non-profits and other
enterprises an affordable and effective fraud prevention
alternative." "MicroBilt is proud of its growing ability to help
our customers protect themselves from fraud," said Kenneth Hill,
president, MicroBilt Corporation. "Now, with Acxiom's data and
analytic resources, our customers have the industry's best
anti-fraud solution at their fingertips, and this allows them to
solve fraud problems even before they occur." MicroBilt's
CreditCommander.com serves leading financial, automotive and
collection institutions in many ways, including verifying
application information for new account acquisitions, assessing
credit risk, skip tracing, credit reports, collection letter
generation and online collection. The Identify product from Acxiom
Insight combines unmatched data resources and analytic capabilities
to help businesses and organizations fight identity fraud and
comply with the USA PATRIOT Act. About MicroBilt MicroBilt, a
division of Bristol Investments, Ltd., is the leader in credit
bureau data access and retrieval, providing credit, collection and
data sources. MicroBilt is certified through and provides
interfaces with the three consumer bureaus, Equifax (NYSE: EFX),
Experian (London Stock Exchange: GUS) and Trans Union and the two
commercial bureaus, D&B and Experian Business as well as eFunds
Corporation (NYSE: EFD) and ChoicePoint (NYSE: CPS). This data
access is available via the Internet at www.CreditCommander.com, a
systems integration tool kit, dedicated terminals and dial-up
software. The company also enables web sites to enhance their
content offerings by delivering a CreditCommander.com private label
site to their established online communities. Credit related
insurance services are offered through MicroBilt's licensed
insurance group, MicroBilt Assurance Corp. MicroBilt maintains
offices in Georgia and New Jersey. For more information, please
contact MicroBilt Corporation, 1640 Airport Road, Suite 115,
Kennesaw, GA, 30144 or www.MicroBilt.com. Telephone:
1-800-884-4747. About Acxiom Corporation Acxiom Corporation
(NASDAQ: ACXM) integrates data, services and technology to create
and deliver customer and information management solutions for many
of the largest, most respected companies in the world. The core
components of Acxiom's innovative solutions are Customer Data
Integration (CDI) technology, data, database services, IT
outsourcing, consulting and analytics, and privacy leadership.
Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas,
with locations throughout the United States and Europe, and in
Australia and China. For more information, visit www.acxiom.com.
Acxiom Insight is the risk mitigation division of Acxiom
Corporation. Our mission is to help Americans protect themselves,
their businesses and their communities from risk through advanced
information-based solutions. For more information, visit
AcxiomInsight.com. Acxiom is a registered trademark of Acxiom
Corporation.
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