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This is Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure.

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Credit Information

Application or Product Percent Complete Target
Availability
for Customer
Testing
Target Date Product is
Year 2000 Ready
  10-24 25-49 50-74 75-99 100    
Online Credit Reporting         X June 1998 January 1999
Portfolio
Retention
        X August 1998 August 1998
ABNS         X June 1998 June 1998
Reappear         X August 1998 August 1998
ID Report         X March 1998 March 1998
Persona         X March 1998 March 1998
FINDERS         X March 1998 March 1998
DTEC         X March 1998 March 1998
System-to-System 5.0         X June 1998 September 1998
Decision Solutions (Models)         X November 1998 December 1998
Risk
Management
        X November 1998 December 1998
CMS Prescreen         X October 1998 December 1998
ScoreNet       X   February 1999 February 1999
Decision Power         X October 1998 December 1998
MultiVision         X October 1998 December 1998
NTDE         X November 1998 December 1998
Exchange         X October 1998 December 1998
Equifax
Mortgage Services
        X October 1998 October 1998
  The following products will NOT be remediated to meet Year 2000 Readiness:
  • BIPS Credit Reports
  • System-to-System Version 89
  • Original DAS
  • Collection Model



First Bankcard Systems

Application or Product Percent of Implementation Complete Target Availability
for Customer Testing
Target Date Product is
Year 2000 Ready
  10-24 25-49 50-74 75-99 100    
Mainframe: TBS         X September 1997 August 1998
Mainframe: TCS         X September 1997 August 1998
Mainframe: TMS         X September 1997 August 1998
MultiXPac         X January 1997 June 1997@
BASE2K Bankcard         X June 1998 June 1998
APPLY         X January 1997 June 1997@
MultiVision for Windows         X December 1996 March 1997@
@

The FBS products completed prior to 1998 have not been certified and no plans are currently underway for this function.

APPLY and MultiVision for Windows are new products and were originally developed Year 2000 ready but are dependent upon third party data also being Year 2000 ready.

 


Retail Services

Application or Product Percent of Implementation Complete Target Availability
for Customer Testing
Target Date Product is
Year 2000 Ready
  10-24 25-49 50-74 75-99 100    
Decision Power Retail       X   January 1999 January 1999
Retail Reach         X July 1998 July 1998

 


Card Services

Application or Product Percent of Implementation Complete Target Availability
for Customer Testing
Target Date Product is
Year 2000 Ready
1
  10-24 25-49 50-74 75-99 100    
ScoreCard         X March 1999 April 1998
LetterChecks         X March 1999 April 1998
Pass-Thru/Internal Credit         X December 1998 September 1998
Debit Card         X December 1998 September 1998
FBS Merchant         X February 1999 December 1998
Deposit Processing         X January 1999 November 1998
FBS BankCard     X     March 1999 December 1998
FBS Collections     X     March 1999 December 1998
FBS Authorizations     X     March 1999 December 1998
PC Authorizations         X February 1999 September 1997
Data Entry       X   February 1999 January 1999
Payments       X   March 1999 January 1999
Card Activation       X   March 1999 January 1999
Call Trak         X N/A November 1998
CardSource         X January 1999 1996
Voice/Audio Response Unit       X   N/A January 1999
Marketing Services         X N/A 1996
Acctng Info Systems       X   N/A January 1999
1 Please refer to Equifax Card Services' monthly Year 2000 update publication for further information on this category.

 


Check Services

Application or Product

Percent of Implementation Complete

Target Availability for Customer Testing

Target Date
Product is
Year 2000
Ready

  10-24 25-49 50-74 75-99 100    
Check Authorization       X   January 1999 January 1999
New Account Verification       X   January 1999 January 1999
Refund Verification       X   January 1999 January 1999
Negative Data Exchange         X October 1998 October 1998

 

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