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Acxiom Helps Credit Grantors Fight Identity Fraud.


LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Acxiom(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ACXM) today announced that, effective June 1, MicroBilt's online decision management engine at CreditCommander.com has been enhanced to include identity fraud verification services from Acxiom Insight.

Verifying an applicant's identity before granting credit protects consumers from identity fraud and credit grantors from taking on unnecessary risk and is a win-win value proposition. Today, MicroBilt helps thousands of credit grantors process millions of applications in real time. Authorized users of the CreditCommander.com service will now enjoy seamless access to Acxiom's unmatched fraud information database and analytics in their efforts to prevent fraud.

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 industry. "Combining Acxiom's strong data and analytics services with CreditCommander.com's decision management service offers banks, credit unions, insurance companies, non-profits and other enterprises an affordable and effective fraud prevention alternative."

"MicroBilt is proud of its growing ability to help our customers protect themselves from fraud," said Kenneth Hill, president, MicroBilt Corporation. "Now, with Acxiom's data and analytic resources, our customers have the industry's best anti-fraud solution at their fingertips "Fingertips" is a 1963 number-one hit single recorded live by "Little" Stevie Wonder for Motown's Tamla label. Wonder's first hit single, "Fingertips" was the first live, non-studio recording to reach number-one on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in the United States. , and this allows them to solve fraud problems even before they occur."

MicroBilt's CreditCommander.com serves leading financial, automotive and collection institutions in many ways, including verifying application information for new account acquisitions, assessing credit risk, skip tracing, credit reports, collection letter generation and online collection. The Identify product from Acxiom Insight combines unmatched data resources and analytic capabilities to help businesses and organizations fight identity fraud and comply with the USA PATRIOT Act USA PATRIOT Act [Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorists], 2001, U.S. .

About MicroBilt

MicroBilt, a division of Bristol Investments, Ltd., is the leader in credit bureau data access and retrieval, providing credit, collection and data sources. MicroBilt is certified through and provides interfaces with the three consumer bureaus, Equifax (NYSE NYSE

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) and ChoicePoint (NYSE: CPS). This data access is available via the Internet at www.CreditCommander.com, a systems integration tool kit, dedicated terminals and dial-up software. The company also enables web sites to enhance their content offerings by delivering a CreditCommander.com private label site to their established online communities. Credit related insurance services are offered through MicroBilt's licensed insurance group, MicroBilt Assurance Corp. MicroBilt maintains offices in Georgia and New Jersey. For more information, please contact MicroBilt Corporation, 1640 Airport Road, Suite 115, Kennesaw, GA, 30144 or www.MicroBilt.com. Telephone: 1-800-884-4747.

About Acxiom Corporation

Acxiom Corporation (NASDAQ: ACXM) integrates data, services and technology to create and deliver customer and information management solutions for many of the largest, most respected companies in the world. The core components of Acxiom's innovative solutions are Customer Data Integration (CDI CDI compact disc interactive: a system for storing a mix of software, data, audio, and compressed video for interactive use under processor control ) technology, data, database services, IT outsourcing, consulting and analytics, and privacy leadership. Founded in 1969, Acxiom is headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas Little Rock, Arkansas

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, with locations throughout the United States and Europe, and in Australia and China. For more information, visit www.acxiom.com.

Acxiom Insight is the risk mitigation division of Acxiom Corporation. Our mission is to help Americans protect themselves, their businesses and their communities from risk through advanced information-based solutions. For more information, visit AcxiomInsight.com.

Acxiom is a registered trademark of Acxiom Corporation.
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