About Trans Union

As a leading global information solutions provider with 3600 employees worldwide, TransUnion LLC enables businesses to effectively manage their financial risks and capitalize on market opportunities with innovative credit decisioning tools and information. The company's products and services are shaped by customer needs and reflect the most advanced, tailored solutions for diverse industry sectors.

TransUnion serves a broad range of industries including financial and banking services, insurance providers, mortgage and real estate services, direct marketers and retailers, collection agencies, communication and energy companies and healthcare facilities. TransUnion's extensive product offerings meet the changing credit requirements of customers not only by providing basic credit reports but also by developing and marketing a broad range of information products and services such as risk and profitability models, credit approval assessment, fraud prevention, portfolio management and target marketing tools.

TransUnion also leverages its role as facilitator to engage and educate consumers, building better relationships between businesses and consumers. It does so by improving accuracy, fraud protection, understanding and trust to drive continued economic growth and consumer prosperity.

Following are some facts that help describe TransUnion:

Founded: 1968
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Size: 3600 employees worldwide
Parent: The Marmon Group
U.S. Reach: Operations in all 50 States
Global Reach: Offices on 5 continents and in 12 countries
Monthly Processing: 2.1 billion items of information
Current Data Managed: 1 Terabyte of data (appox)

TransUnion Highlights:

TransUnion was founded in 1968 to serve as the holding company of a railcar leasing organization called the Union Tank Car Company.
In 1969, TransUnion acquired the Credit Bureau of Cook County, Illinois.
Designed and implemented the first automated tape-to-disc transfer system, replacing manual data-entry.
Built the first online information storage and retrieval data-processing system - the Credit Reporting On-line Network Utility System (CRONUS) - to serve credit grantors nationwide.
TransUnion was the first to implement the technology to enable accurate identity searches based on a person's nickname.
TransUnion opened the nation's first dedicated unit to assist consumers with credit fraud, the Fraud Victims Assistance Department, in 1991 in Fullerton, California.