Helping Canadian businesses enter new territory

Equifax Canada and Creditsafe align to bring international insight to Canadian businesses

TORONTO, Feb. 04, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Equifax Canada and Creditsafe, a global business intelligence leader, today announced a new partnership to improve opportunities for Canadian businesses to leverage world class data to make informed business decisions. With this partnership, Equifax Canada customers will be able to access Creditsafe’s global coverage of business data, while Creditsafe will be able to provide immediate value to risk and credit professionals throughout Canada by taking an active role in servicing small and mid-markets. 

“We’re offering our clients an opportunity to be more competitive on the global stage through our alliance with Creditsafe,” said Carrie Russell, President and General Manager of Equifax Canada. “Borders aren’t barriers. Whether you are signing a contract with a new business partner, providing funding to a business with international ownership, or evaluating a new-to-Canada customer and considering their prior term debt behaviour, you’ll now have insight into who you’re doing business with.”

Creditsafe has access to credit information on over 330 million businesses across the globe and services companies of all sizes and industries. Their credit reports are known for being intuitive enough that most decisions can be made with just a glance while comprehensive enough that their hundreds of thousands of customers worldwide can have confidence in the decisions they’re making based on Creditsafe data.

“Creditsafe’s value has already transformed the markets in Europe, the United States and Asia and we anticipate that entering the Canadian market by partnering with Equifax will allow us to hit the ground running, and help credit professionals make more informed decisions from day one,” said Cato Syversen, CEO of Creditsafe. “Known for being agile and innovative, Canadian businesses have a great reputation globally and we cannot wait to help these companies to not only reach new markets, but also their full potential.” 

Creditsafe’s global database is one of the most comprehensive and rapidly expanding in the industry being updated over a million times a day with information gathered from thousands of sources. With 23 offices across 14 countries, Creditsafe can offer instant access company credit reports in over 160 countries throughout the world.