Credit, Collections & Insolvency News
Callcredit Information Group, backed by private equity firm, GTCR, has acquired Recipero. Recipero has built one of the world’s largest proprietary databases containing detailed information of the history and ownership of mobile devices, in a deal designed to accelerate the growth of the company’s fraud and identity protection strategy. Mike Gordon, CEO, Callcredit Information Group,…
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The Money has released research examining financial education in secondary schools. The Key Findings of the report: Financial education is not as effective as it should be. Almost two thirds of teachers tell us financial education in the UK is somewhat or very ineffective. The introduction of financial education to the curriculum achieved little on the…
Read moreAt least 500 million Yahoo passwords and usernames, as well as personal information used for security checks, have been stolen since 2014. Equifax has urged businesses to step up security checks. John Marsden, Head of ID and Fraud at Equifax said “Passwords are continuing to topple like dominos, and the rate of major breaches is increasing at…
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