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Equifax partners with Render to launch new decisioning platform for lenders
Clear Decision uses Equifax bureau insights and Open Banking data to help streamline manual underwriting, improve marginal lending decisions and tackle fraudulent applications London, 06 May 2025 – Equifax UK has announced a strategic partnership with Render to launch a comprehensive data decisioning platform for lenders that uses Equifax credit bureau data and categorised Open Banking insights.  The n ...
May 06, 2025
Open letter from Equifax UK calls for industry collaboration to tackle fina ...
Equifax 2025 Financial Health Report reveals a contrasting picture of consumer resilience and raises potential questions over future financial stress Call to lenders highlights a need for critical attention to address the £20bn unclaimed benefits gap, earlier debt engagement, and economic abuse Analysis shows UK credit card debt surpas ...
April 30, 2025
Open letter to UK financial services: Let’s accelerate financial inclusion ...
Dear partners and colleagues, This week at Equifax UK we published our 2025 Financial Health Report on the state of the UK’s financial health and the joint challenges facing our industry. Five years on from the global pandemic, we are seeing a complex environment of resilience and vulnerability for UK consumers, one that would benefit from data-informed action.  While short-term improvements in some credit indicators are encour ...
April 27, 2025
Equifax UK launches cloud-native intelligence suite for commercial lenders
Equifax UK has launched a new suite of solutions for commercial lenders, drawing on its fully cloud-native commercial data platform to help clients meet key business challenges with speed and agility.  The Business Intelligence Suite™ harnesses cloud-hosted Commercial Credit Data Sharing and Insight attributes across a range of products to help Equifax UK clients make better decisions throughout the commercial customer lifecyc ...
March 19, 2025
Equifax UK launches Financed Emissions Calculator™ to help lenders streamli ...
Combines CienDos emission data methodologies with commercial bureau insights  First-to-market solution helps firms report, manage and reduce Scope 3 emissions associated with financing activities Equifax UK has launched the Financed Emissions Calculator™, utilising Equifax fully cloud-native infrastructure to help streamline sustainability reporting requirements and provide more accura ...
March 04, 2025
Equifax marks 30-year anniversary of its Wexford office
Credit reference agency Equifax has celebrated the 30th anniversary of its Wexford office site in Ireland, marking three decades of growth and impact. Established in 1994 with a small team focused on manual capture of commercial company data from Companies House, the office has since evolved into a major local employer, with nearly 100 staff members supporting Equifax clients and consumers. The anniversary celebratio ...
December 02, 2024
Equifax UK launches first-of-its-kind affordability solution for lenders
Credit reference agency Equifax UK has launched a first-of-its-kind solution for lenders, combining bureau insights with real-time transaction data accessed via Open Banking and statistical estimates to boost affordability assessments and consumer outcomes. Traditionally lenders have relied on a mixture of consumer affordability assessment models. Industry research from Equifax found nearly a quarter (24%) of organisations relied on a co ...
December 02, 2024
OneID® and Equifax create new solution to streamline customer onboarding
Equifax UK has partnered with digital identity provider OneID® to integrate Equifax’s Apply+ to create an award-winning solution which helps overcome the persistent challenge of customer identity verification and application abandonment in credit journeys. By integrating Equifax’s Apply+ into OneID’s document-free digital identity verification, customers will be empowered to verify their identities without the need for traditional ID ...
December 02, 2024
Equifax UK launches Open Banking solution to simplify utility and telecom s ...
Equifax UK has launched a new digital customer onboarding journey to help certain utility and telecoms providers automate customer eligibility assessments for social tariff discounts, making it simpler and easier for consumers to apply, and helping them access discounts and special pricing plans available for households facing financial hardship. The award-winning solution, Tariff Connect, uses a digital application form and Open Banking ...
December 02, 2024
Equifax Becomes the First of the Three Main UK Based Credit Reference Agenc ...
Equifax Limited has become the first of the three main UK based credit reference agencies to be named on Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS), Open Banking Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) framework for Open Banking services.  This development allows Equifax to bid to provide Account Information Services (AIS) to any UK public sector body that uses the DPS. These include central government departments and wider public sector bodies, su ...
May 30, 2024
Equifax UK partners with Homely to power platform for aspiring homeowners
Equifax UK has partnered with free-to-use platform Homely to provide Open Banking and credit insights to help support first-time buyers and those moving up the property ladder with getting mortgage-ready. Homely is working to advance and digitalise the home-buying process for UK consumers, making it simpler and more rewarding by combining data, rewards, education and recommendations to prepare people for homeownership. Through the ...
March 27, 2024
Avoid more than heartbreak this Valentine’s Day as Romance Scams are set to ...
As Valentine’s Day approaches and online dating sees a surge in popularity, love is not always in the air. Sadly, this time of year also comes with an increase in online romance scams. As Valentine’s Day approaches, Equifax has seen a huge 767% surge in online impressions for its tips on spotting romance scams. Meanwhile, data from UK Finance reveals that nearly 40% of people looking for love online have been asked for money.  ...
February 14, 2024