For the sixth year running, CRIF has been included in the prestigious IDC FinTech Rankings, taking 35th place in 2018 in the global classification, and top spot among Italian companies.

In its fifteenth edition, the IDC FinTech classification assesses the main global suppliers of financial technology based on revenues for the previous calendar year obtained in the hardware, software and/or services sector. CRIF, like the other companies in the IDC FinTech Rankings, represents excellence among those suppliers that work with great determination and commitment to give solid support to financial institutions so that they can successfully implement their digital transformation initiatives.

Marlin & Associates (M&A) state in their latest newsletter: Values and trends in our industry are strong - and using the latest tech often helps. Some of the more interesting recent transactions over the past month include M&A’s client RapidRatings, which M&A advised on a Growth Equity Investment from FTV Capital.

Three years after eight commercial firms were granted permission by the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) to start their pilot programmes in operating personal credit information systems in 2015; none of them have received a license.

Instead, they have now become shareholders and active contributors to a new unified platform that has access to an enormous number of personal credit data. At the so-called ‘trust alliance’ Baihang Credit, state level and commercial organizations join forces in further developing China’s credit systems.