COVID + Credit: Consumer cyber security scams

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Consumer cyber security scams have been on the rise during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here’s how to spot them.

COVID + Credit: Where to Find Financial Help Now

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The COVID-19 pandemic has played havoc with our collective finances, causing many families and individuals to suddenly find themselves in need of help.

What to Do if You’re Struggling to Pay Your Mortgage

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With rising unemployment and many businesses forced to shut at least temporarily, many Australians are suddenly wondering how they’ll continue to meet their mortgage payments. Whether you're out of work due to the pandemic or you're simply dealing with other financial challenges, the following are some potential solutions worth investigating.

Protecting Yourself and Your Credit Report

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It would be wonderful if scammers and hackers took a holiday during the COVID-19 crisis, but sadly many are instead using it as an opportunity to create more havoc. That’s why it’s more important than ever to keep your personal financial data safe and secure.

Prioritising Your Bills When Money is Tight

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When your finances are stretched, paying all of your bills in full on time each month can become near impossible. If you are struggling to pay your bills on time, it’s worth giving some thought to how best to prioritise them. This can help minimise any impact on your credit score and ease your long-term financial recovery. 

What COVID financial assistance is available to you now?

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With Covid-19 rapidly up-ending the way we live and work, the financial aspects can be as concerning as the potential health risks. Thankfully, the government and lenders are acting quickly to put in place strategies that can help cushion the blow for individuals, households and businesses. So what help is available to you now?

COVID-19 and Your Taxes

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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many things already this year and the next on the list may be your taxes. If you’ve been working at home, you can claim working from home expenses, and if you’ve received financial hardship stimulus payments from the government, you’ll need to declare these payments as income. 

Bringing big data to life through visualisations

Data is transformed into clear and actionable visuals to help stakeholders make sense of its value. Quickly identify trends, market changes and issues to assist with your data-driven decision-making process.

Equifax visual insights provides access to a collection of pre-built, configurable graphical representations. These allow you to see connections otherwise missed between multi-dimensional data. Despite these visualisations representing vast amounts of de-identified, aggregated data points, our intuitive, easy-to-use interface requires minimal technical knowledge.

Amplify your visualisations with real-world insights to benchmark your business against your peers and industry. With access to Equifax’s rich data, you have market, portfolio and customer level insights across a range of industries at your fingertips. This includes credit and trade payments, marketing, auto, property, tenancy, fraud, collections and employment. Equifax is Australia’s largest aggregator of consumer and business data.

Your data holds a story. We help you tell it.

Your business has unique needs, which can mean that off-the-shelf models and scores won’t always work. Yet, building customised solutions can quickly turn into a black hole of time, resources, and money.

There’s a revolutionary way to build models and scores with Equifax, which offers:

  • Speed to market
  • Specialised data
  • Advanced analytics.

This tailored ‘Do It For Me’ solution uses the many interchangeable data sources and patent-pending analytic tools within Equifax. Our experts work with you to mix and match the most optimal variables and components to create a comprehensive end-to-end solution that targets your distinct business need.

Equifax partners with Basiq to help lenders meet Responsible Lending guidelines

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The move to use of Open Data accelerates

SYDNEY, Tuesday, 11 June 2019 – Equifax, the data analytics company and leading provider of credit information and analysis in Australia and New Zealand, has today announced a national distribution and partnership agreement with Basiq, to help prepare the industry for Open Data.

Further developing the Equifax transaction data offering, the partnership with Basiq will enable Equifax customers to easily collect transaction data in real time.

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