Acxiom Builds Alliance To Combat Financial Fraud - 2004-02-24
Acxiom Corp. and credit bureau giant TransUnion declared a new partnership Monday that will help banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions in fighting the expanding problem of fraud.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. However, the shared database, called the Fraud Management Platform, would exchange immediate transaction information among credit card issuers, retail banks, merchants, mortgage companies, telephone companies and health-care providers for verifying customers.
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Mortgages: J.P. Morgan merger criticized - 2004-02-24
The $58 billion merger of J.P. Morgan Chase and Chicago's Bank One will not be beneficial for low-income consumers and minorities, the Bronx-based non-profit Inner City Press/Fair Finance Watch said yesterday.

It also accused Chase Manhattan Mortgage of denying loan applications to African Americans and Latinos more frequently than other banks in cities such as Washington.
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