Towards this end, the company opened five new insurance-related offices in that year. [11], In 1970, after the company had computerized its records, which led to wider availability of the personal information it held, the U.S. Congress held hearings that led to the enactment of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. With 4,600 employees in 13 countries worldwide, and $1.4 billion in annual revenue, the Atlanta-based Standard and Poors 500 firm is one of Georgias most profitable companies. There he supervised the compilation of a list of customers, with indications of their credit-worthiness, for the local Retail Grocer ' s Association. This memorial has been copied to your clipboard. Cator also served on the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation where President Roosevelt and he became friends. [87], 2016 advance-warnings of insecure systems, 2017 withdrawal of vulnerable mobile apps. Are you sure that you want to delete this memorial? Renamed REACH in 1989 and the Frazer Center in 1999, the vision to offer research-based education, vocational support, and therapeutic intervention to children and adults with developmental disabilities remains intact. The agency has recorded a very big growth over the years, and they have total assets worth $7.23 billion. Copyright 2018 Key Credit Repair. In March 1930 Retail Credit established the Georgia Credit Exchange to provide services in cities across the state. The company would also no longer keep tabs on customers' buying histories for the purpose of placing shoppers in a range of categories from "luxury buyers" to "coupon clippers." Founder of the Retail Credit Company of Atlanta, Ga., now Equifax, one of the three major credit-rating agencies in the US. To view a photo in more detail or edit captions for photos you added, click the photo to open the photo viewer. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. Relying on his experience in Tennessee, Cator began by seeking out an alliance with the city's grocers. Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. Miller contacted Equifax repeatedly in writing and over the telephone, but Equifax refused to delete dozens of false collection accounts from Miller's credit report. (ChoicePoint and Equifax did not then, nor do they now, share information or any relationship.). [77][78] A Heartland Bank spokesperson said the bank "immediately investigated and contacted the credit reporting agencies after Haman reported" she was still alive. Armed with a form showing the information that would be provided about each potential customer, the salesman pulled in a large number of new clients. In the early 1970s, Retail Credit purchased several competitors, buying credit bureaus in Oregon, Idaho, and California, and Credit Bureau, Inc., located in Washington, D.C. Wanting more opportunity for her daughter, Anne Lane joined forces with her friend and civic leader Rebecca Frazer to create the Cerebral Palsy Centerin 1949 in the basement of St. Lukes Episcopal Church on Peachtree Street. Learn about how to make the most of a memorial. Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. To cover the costs of this effort, Woolford sold copies of the book to other merchants. Please enter your email and password to sign in. [75] A federal judge reduced the award to $1.62 million in 2014. In 1934, he co-founded the short-lived Correct Address Company, with Edwin K. Large . Your Scrapbook is currently empty. Photograph of Cator Woolford, who, with his brother Guy, started the Retail Credit Company, the precursor to Equifax, in Atlanta, Georgia. Heres a look at how the Atlanta-based company grew into the credit reporting giant that it is today. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Cator Ringgold Woolford I found on Findagrave.com. Guy Woolford and his brother, Cator, founded Retail Credit Company, which became Equifax in the 1970s. In an effort to focus on payment services, credit reporting, and risk management services, Equifax sold its healthcare information business in 1996, just four years after entering the field; then in the following year Equifax spun off its insurance information services group, which had been a part of the company for nearly as long as credit reporting had been. In 1948, Anne Lane was searching for a program for her daughter Anita, who had cerebral palsy. [41], Equifax primarily operates in the business-to-business sector, selling consumer credit and insurance reports and related analytics to businesses in a range of industries. During this time, Equifax also continued to spend heavily on technological developments for the purpose of keeping data-processing equipment up to date and offering new products to customers with the equipment. Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. This beautiful garden underwent major renovations in 1996 and 2017. Cooper Sanchez, an artist, gardener, and designer, has used his magical skills to convert the Cator Woodford Garden to a popular event venue in Atlanta. In addition to consumer and commercial credit information services, Equifax has a diversified array of operations including payment services, software, modeling, analytics, consulting, and direct-to-consumer services. By 1986 the company's files covered 150 million people in 28 states. Watch Full Video Weddings & Events Photography & Video By the end of the company's second year, the staff had expanded to eight and the volume of sales was growing steadily. Equifax was founded in 1898 by two brothers, Cator and Guy Woolford. The increased competition resulted in a serious slump in Retail Credit's life insurance and credit reporting activities in 1921. The company experienced rapid growth, and by 1920 it had opened offices all over Canada and the United States, and by the 1960s, the agency was one of the leading credit bureaus. By the end of the company's second decade of existence, Retail Credit was thoroughly established as a significant partner in the life insurance business. Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. These activities had long taken place at a different location under separate management; three years later, Retail Credit further severed its connection when the Exchange was sold to businessman L.S. [42][43][44], In 1999, Equifax began offering services to the credit consumer sector in addition, such as credit fraud and identity theft prevention products. Consolidation in the credit bureau industry continued throughout the 1980s, as Equifax and its two largest competitors, TRW Inc. and the Trans Union Corporation, divided up the nation's smaller credit bureaus amongst themselves. The agency also purchased a business intelligence company known as eThority, which has headquarters in Charleston, South Carolina. Use the links under See more to quickly search for other people with the same last name in the same cemetery, city, county, etc. These purchases were subsequently challenged by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which claimed that they reduced competition. Once the home of Cator Woolford, a principal founder of what is now known as Equifax, the Italian-style gardens serve as a wedding and event venue infused with decades of classic beauty and Southern charm. To add a flower, click the Leave a Flower button. After a couple of years, the company expanded into commercial credit reports on big companies in the UK, the US, and Canada. Cator Woolford got his start in the credit bureau business as a grocer in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Equifax was founded in 1898 by two brothers, Cator and Guy Woolford. "Equifax." Equifax has an annual revenue of over $3.1 billion. During the second half of 1998 Equifax purchased an 80 percent stake in Segurana ao Crdito e Informaes, the leading financial information company in Brazil; a 59 percent controlling stake in Unnisa-Solues em Meios de Pagamento Ltda., Brazil's leading credit card processing firm; and a 34 percent interest in Proceda Tecnologia e Informtica S.A., the second largest outsourcer of information technology in Brazil. [60][61][62][63] At that time, only 3 out of 65 top anti-malware products provided protection against the particular malware, meaning that many visitors were at risk of having their computers infected when visiting the Equifax website. were exposed as in the MayJuly breach, according to Motherboard. [16] Certegy effectively became a subsidiary of Fidelity National Financial as a result of this reverse acquisition merger (See Certegy and Fidelity National Information Services for further information).[16]. [62], On October 13, 2017, the attack was revealed to have been performed by hijacking third-party analytics JavaScript from Digital River brand FireClick. Despite this setback, geographical expansion continued and New York premises were opened in 1907. "[67], The company was charged with rewarding its employees for collecting negative information on consumers in the 1970s. Failed to report flower. Who Is The Founder Of Equifax? In the late 1920s Woolford befriended Franklin D. Roosevelt and was one of the founders of the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute. During this period, it began reporting for automotive liability insurance. Retail Credit's activities in the consumer credit business were regulated for the first time in 1971, when Congress passed the Fair Credit Reporting Act, effective in April. Sorry! In addition, the company hoped to avoid the expensive class action suits over its activities that competitors had suffered. [55] While these apps themselves were not reportedly connected to that breach, they had security flaws of their own, being vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks owing to some parts using HTTP instead of HTTPS. 2017: Equifax is the victim of a massive cyber hack, which is believed to have exposed the personal, confidential information of about 145 million Americans. Although the company sold seven subscriptions rapidly after one of Atlanta's largest department stores bought the first, by the end of Retail Credit's first year only 37 merchants and 47 grocers had signed on board. There was a consent decree. "[80] Equifax selected the law firm DLA Piper to work on the case in D.C. 2); Equifax Ventures, Inc.; Financial Institution Benefit Association, Inc.; Financial Insurance Marketing Group, Inc.; First Bankcard Systems, Inc.; Global Scan Ltd. (U.K.); Global Scan (USA), Inc.; Goldleaf Technologies, Inc.; High Integrity Systems, Inc.; The Infocheck Group Ltd. (U.K.); Infolink Ltd. (U.K.); Light Signatures, Inc.; Market Knowledge, Incorporated; Stewardship, Inc.; Tecnicob S.A. (France); Transax Australia plc (U.K.); Transax France plc (U.K.); Transax (Ireland) plc; Transax Ltd. (New Zealand); Transax plc. This account has been disabled. In April 1988 the company established a marketing services division, whose first project was to develop a direct-mail program to sell home mortgages for a Midwestern insurance company. As one of the key players in the increasingly electronic world of commerce, however, Equifax was likely to survive the thrive. Their downtown office quickly expanded, as the brothers offered life and auto insurance. And though Equifaxs story isnt quite as tenured as Experian, its roots date back to the late1800swhen it began as a grocery store. This changed in 1999 when the agency started offering services to credit consumer sectors. The origins of these gardens date back to the 1920's and was once home to Cator Woolford himself - one of the leading founders of what we know today as Equifax. (TRW's credit bureau was spun off as Experian Inc. in 1996.). Between 1983 and 1988, the company's overall revenues increased by nearly 60 percent, to $743 million, and earnings more than doubled. In the fall of 1901, the company dispatched a salesman to the Northeast to drum up business in the home offices of the nation's largest insurance companies. The agency agreed to a global settlement in January 2020 with different institutions like the Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Trade Commission, and 50 U.S. states and territories. Equifax Inc. - then called the Retail Credit Company - was founded in Atlanta, Georgia, by brothers Cator and Guy Woolford in 1899. Equifax, one of the largest credit-reporting agencies in the country, collects data on more than 400 million credit holders nationwide. By 1920, it has 37 branches throughout North America. [74] An Equifax spokesperson said that Equifax is considering appealing the jury's verdict. New Georgia Encyclopedia, 03 November 2006, https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/equifax/. [11] RCC also investigated insurance claims and made employment reports when people were seeking new jobs. In addition to credit and demographic data and services to business,[5] Equifax sells credit monitoring and fraud prevention services directly to consumers. In 2003, the FTC took Equifax to court for the same reason and settled its lawsuit with the company for a fine of $250,000. Fostering inclusive communities is the heart of Frazers mission. If you notice a problem with the translation, please send a message to [emailprotected] and include a link to the page and details about the problem. These services included identifying theft prevention products as well as credit fraud identity. On March 1, 2018, Equifax announced that 2.4 million additional U.S. customers were affected by the breach,[21] increasing the number of affected to 147.9 million Americans. Nevertheless, after the company pledged to monitor its procedures more carefully, the government halted its investigation. Some of the company's data storage equipment is pictured circa 1978. There was also a security breach in 2017, and the same year, there was an exposure of consumer data on their Argentine customers. 28. The same cybersecurity firm was hired following the MayJuly breach. By 1920, the company had offices throughout the United States and Canada. [citation needed] Business customers include retailers, insurance firms, healthcare providers, utilities, government agencies, as well as banks, credit unions, personal and specialty finance companies and other financial institutions. Today, Equifax has a workforce of about 14,000 employees throughout 19 countries, and reports revenue of $3.14 billion per year. In total, the researcher downloaded the data of hundreds of thousands of Americans in order to show Equifax the vulnerabilities within its systems. There are no volunteers for this cemetery. You shouldn't count on it", "If you made a claim for $125 from Equifax, you're not getting it after court awards nearly $80 million to attorneys", "Equifax acquires Ansonia expanding leadership in commercial credit data solutions", "WSJ News Exclusive | Equifax Sent Lenders Inaccurate Credit Scores on Millions of Consumers", "Equifax issued wrong credit scores for millions", "Equifax sued over erroneous credit scores sent for "millions" of Americans", "Equifax to acquire Brazilian credit bureau Boa Vista Servios for $596m", "Freezing Credit Will Now Be Free. Cator Woolford (1869-1944), Atlanta businessman, civic leader and philanthropist, founded the Retail Credit Company (the precursor to Equifax) in 1899. Pleased with the success of his first listing, Woolford set out to make credit reporting his career. Founded by brothers Cator and Guy Woolford, each got their start in the credit business as grocers, where they compiled lists of customers based on their creditworthiness. Share this memorial using social media sites or email. Other services offered by Equifax include selling credit monitoring to their customers as well as fraud prevention services. Are you adding a grave photo that will fulfill this request? Retail Credit attempted to make up the slack by increasing automobile insurance reporting; by the following year, more than one-fifth of the agency's business was contributed by this division. In 2010 Equifax bought an identity verification software company Anakam, which was headquartered in San Diego, California. The company's operations had already been divided into four divisions: insurance information services, its traditional strength; credit services; marketing services, the newest division; and Canadian operations, which were consolidated into one company, Equifax Canada Inc., in June 1989. Until his retirement in 1931, he successfully steered the company as general manager, president and chairman. Don't ignore the company's latest email", "That $125 payment from Equifax? Are you sure that you want to delete this flower? [81], Consumer lawsuits claiming damages under the FCRA have been successful in small claims court. [42] Credit reports provide detailed information on the personal credit and payment history of individuals, indicating how they have honored financial obligations such as paying bills or repaying a loan. There was a problem getting your location. Equifax's push into the Brazilian market was challenged by the economic difficulties there, especially the currency devaluation. Equifax is 124 years old. However, in February 2020, the United States Department of Justice indicted four members of China's People's Liberation Army on nine charges related to the breach, which China has denied. Under this law, consumers were given the right to gain access to their credit files and correct errors in them. This is a carousel with slides. Equifax is the oldest and largest credit bureau in existence today. Pushed to the limit, Retail Credit finally allowed women to work as inspectors, in most cases permitting wives to take over their absent husbands' jobs. The U.S. entry into World War II had a serious impact on Retail Credit's business. [24] After an investigation by the FBI, Ying pleaded guilty, was sentenced to four months of prison plus a year of supervised release, and was fined $55,000.00 and ordered to pay restitution of $117,117.61 in June 2019. Retrieved Aug 19, 2013, from https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/business-economy/equifax/. You are nearing the transfer limit for memorials managed by Find a Grave. In the following year, the company's capacity grew 40 percent, to cover all 50 states. Please reset your password. By 1994 Equifax had acquired three more healthcare information firms, giving it a substantial presence in claims processing. [15] Also in 2001, Equifax spun off its payment services division, forming the publicly listed company Certegy, which subsequently acquired Fidelity National Information Services in 2006. 1920: Retail Credit Company continues to grow. That year also saw Equifax introduce a record 25 new products. The settlement was for those who were affected by the data breach, and it cost Equifax over $700 million. There is 1 volunteer for this cemetery. [69][70], In July 2013, a federal jury in Oregon awarded $18.6 million to Julie Miller of Marion County against Equifax for violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. Son of John Stevens Brohawn and Mary Ellen Rees Woolford. The trouble-plagued ChoicePoint made headlines in 2005 for leaking consumers confidential information to identity thieves. [47], According to Bloomberg, a person familiar with the breach believed this early-March intrusion may have been carried out by the same party that breached Equifax's computer systems again in May. Equifax was forced to confront growing consumer hostility in the early 1990s, as watchdog groups contended that credit bureaus' files were often inaccurate and were used in inappropriate ways. Translation on Find a Grave is an ongoing project. Nevertheless, after the company pledged to monitor its procedures more carefully, the government halted its investigation. Equifax (EFX) has a Smart Score of 9 based on an analysis of 8 unique data sets, including Analyst Recommendations, Crowd Wisdom, and Hedge Fund Activity. Equifax is a multinational American consumer credit reporting agency that is among the top three consumer credit reporting agencies. In New Georgia Encyclopedia. By taking these steps to mollify the public, Equifax hoped to ward off federal legislation that would mandate costly measures to increase fairness. These 39 acres of property are nestled in the heart of the North Druid Hills area. A decade later, the state legislature consented to the establishment of a home for underprivileged boys, Boys Estate, on the property. Residents in the United Kingdom (15.2 million) and Canada (about 19,000) were also impacted. Expanded into Insurance-Related Business in 1901. All requests for permission to publish or reproduce the resource must be submitted to the rights holder. There is a problem with your email/password. Cator Woolford (1869-1944), Atlanta businessman, civic leader and philanthropist, founded the Retail Credit Company (the precursor to Equifax) in 1899. Failed to delete flower. As of Apr 06 -3.03 / -1.52%. Not long after, the government accused the company of rating employees based on how much negative information they could find about consumers. In June the pages of the book were run out on a mimeograph machine and bound between hard covers with the title "Merchant's Guide.". Four months later, the company spent $9 million to open an elaborate consumer services center which provided information to callers about their credit file in eight languages. Today's Change. Equifax Courtesy of Equifax Beginnings In 1899 Cator and Guy Woolford, two brothers from Woolford, Maryland, began operations as the Retail Credit Company in Atlanta. Quickly see who the memorial is for and when they lived and died and where they are buried. [13] The insurance reporting was phased out. The Retail Credit Company continued to expand, going public in 1965 and (with other credit agencies) coming under Federal Trade Commission oversight in 1971. Equifax was founded by Cator and Guy Woolford in Atlanta, Georgia, as Retail Credit Company in 1899. The agency has an operating income of $900 million, and its net income was estimated to be $600.1 million last year. [68], The company has been fined by the Federal Trade Commission on two occasions for violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRA"). Married Charlotte Louise Boyd (1900-1965) on 01 Jan 1920, at the home of her parents in Griffin, Spalding, GA Other failings were on the exposure of American salary data, and website malware. 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