“We are going to bring a lot of talent and we are also going to surely recruit a lot of local talent,” César Calomino, manager for Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico of equifaxthe American multinational that acquired the credit bureau Dominican Data-Credit.
“In Argentina we have more than 100 data scientists in a center that supports the entire region, in Costa Rica we have more than 1,500 people in a global service center that provides services to the whole world, in Mexico we have more than 200 engineers of software that develop platforms for the whole world, in El Salvador we have another technological hub”, Calomino listed.
The stability, the business climate, the regulatory framework and having a related company with its credit analysis business was what attracted the multinational to the Dominican Republic, a country that it plans to use as a hub in the Caribbean.
DataCrédito specializes in the delivery of credit services credit bureau, scores and analytical. equifax plans to increase its leadership in risk analysis, decision making and fraud prevention platforms in the Dominican market.
Its acquisition is part of the 11 made by equifax in the last year, and the 180 collaborators of Data-Credit they join the more than 15,000 employees of the multinational present in 25 countries.
The company will continue to be called Data-Creditwith the surname of being “a company equifax”, Calomino specified. The multinational will also keep the Dominican Alberto Adam as corporate vice president of the company founded in 1998.
“We are respectful of the laws and, above all, of the privacy of the information of each one of the people”Manager for Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico of Equifax
“Our intention when we come here to the (Dominican) market is to promote, it is to unite efforts and generate greater value, it is not to come to bring a packaged and corporate model, but on the contrary, it is to promote the good that it has been doing Data-Creditand an example of this is the brand”, said Calomino.
He indicated that equifax It is in a process of expansion and in that development it began to explore markets, finding in the Dominican Republic the profile they were looking for.
“We had the Dominican Republic as a market (in which) in some way, at the country level, we found a country with growth, with a regulation according to this industry and we found Data-Credita company with 24 years of experience”, he said.
equifaxan Atlanta-based public data, analytics and technology company, has invested more than $3 billion in strategic acquisitions since early 2021 to strengthen the company.
It operates or has investments in North America, Central and South America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.
Guarantees confidentiality
Due to its nature, Data-Crédito handles a large amount of personal and financial information of residents of the Dominican Republic. Calomino guaranteed that the fact that a US company has bought it does not imply that this information will not continue to be protected. “We are respectful of the laws and, above all, of the privacy of the information of each one of the people,” he assured.
