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Specialty reports

Consumer reporting companies

A landlord, bank, insurer, employer, or utility may use a reporting company you have never heard of. Ask which report will be used before applying when possible, or use the notice to find the exact file afterward.

Before a rental application

Find the report before you pay an application fee.

The property manager—not this directory—knows which company, product, and approval criteria it plans to use.

  1. 01 · Ask

    Name the screening company

    Ask which company and report product will be used, the written rental criteria, required income documents, fees, and whether a guarantor or other option is allowed.

  2. 02 · Request

    Check the named file

    Use the exact company name to find its report-request instructions below. A company may have no file on you; do not order unrelated reports just because they exist.

  3. 03 · Save

    Keep the application record

    Save the criteria, consent, submitted documents, payment receipt, and decision. If the result is unfavorable, keep the notice and request the report it names.

Quick answer

What is a specialty consumer report?

It is a consumer report built for a particular decision: opening a bank account, renting a home, verifying work or income, pricing insurance, starting phone or utility service, or screening a job candidate. The familiar Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion credit reports are only part of the broader consumer reporting agency system.

If a company’s report contributed to an unfavorable decision, the adverse-action notice should identify the reporting company and explain your right to request the report and dispute inaccurate information. Requesting your own report creates a soft inquiry and does not lower your credit score.

Decode an adverse-action notice
The notice is the map

Request the report that was actually used.

01 · Identify

Read the company name

Do not send a dispute to all three credit bureaus when the notice names a tenant, banking, employment, insurance, or utility report.

02 · Compare

Get the source record

Use the report, notice, and original records to isolate a wrong identity, date, balance, claim, court record, employer, or payment.

03 · Act

Choose the right remedy

Dispute inaccurate or incomplete data. If it is accurate but unfavorable, ask the decision-maker about reconsideration or alternatives.

Methodology

How this directory is researched

The CFPB list is the starting universe, not a claim that every company holds a file on every person. We prioritize names that can explain an unfamiliar denial, deposit, rate, or screening notice, then verify the current consumer request path against the company’s own support pages.

Named in the CFPB consumer reporting company list or current federal consumer guidance.
A report can affect access to banking, housing, work, insurance, utilities, or credit.
The company provides a consumer path to request a file and challenge inaccurate or incomplete information.
Freeze language is company-specific: “not listed” is not presented as a universal legal conclusion.
Research base
  1. 2025 consumer reporting company list — Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
  2. CFPB company-list methodology and rights guide — Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
  3. 2025 Consumer Response Annual Report — Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Directory

Reporting company profiles

Not every company has a file on every person. Start with a name printed on a notice or report.

Showing all 34 researched companies

Personal property insurance

A-PLUS Property

Also seen as A-PLUS / A-PLUS Loss History

A-PLUS Property is Verisk’s insurance loss-history report for claims associated with a person, home, vehicle, or other personal property; it is separate from LexisNexis C.L.U.E.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Employment & income

Accurate Background

Also seen as AccurateAccel / AccurateAce

Accurate Background prepares employer-requested background reports and routes candidates through different support paths based on the platform or order number shown in their screening materials.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Tenant screening

AmRent

Also seen as AmRent Consumer Assistance / AmRent Credit Report

AmRent prepares tenant-screening reports for landlords and property managers and provides one Consumer Assistance route for report copies, questions, and disputes.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Tenant screening

AppFolio Screening

Also seen as FolioScreen / AppFolio Resident Screening

AppFolio provides FolioScreen tenant reports to property managers and landlords; its current Consumer Relations page handles report copies, file disclosures, and disputes.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Personal property insurance

Arity

Also seen as Arity Services / Arity driving report

Arity Services supplies consent-based driving reports and scores for auto-insurance quotes using telematics data shared through participating mobile apps or in-vehicle systems.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Banking & payments

Certegy Payment Solutions

Also seen as Certegy / Certegy Check Services

Certegy provides check and ACH verification and payment-risk recommendations to financial institutions, retailers, healthcare providers, transportation companies, government programs, and other businesses.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Employment & income

Checkr

Also seen as Checkr Candidate Portal

Checkr provides background screening and post-hire workforce monitoring, often through a candidate-facing portal.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Banking & payments

ChexSystems

ChexSystems is a nationwide specialty reporting company used mainly by banks and credit unions when deciding whether to open a checking or savings account.

Free report path Freeze offered
Request, freeze & dispute details
Specialty lending and alternative data

Clarity Services

Also seen as Experian Clarity Services / Clarity Credit Report

Clarity Services is an Experian-owned specialty reporting company focused on alternative-finance and thin-file credit information that is separate from an Experian nationwide credit report.

Free report path Freeze offered
Request, freeze & dispute details
Specialty lending and alternative data

DataX

Also seen as DataX Ltd. / Equifax DataX

DataX is an Equifax-owned specialty credit reporting company that provides nonprime lenders with consumer payment-history and alternative credit information separate from an Equifax nationwide report.

Free report path Freeze offered
Request, freeze & dispute details
Banking & payments

Early Warning Services

Also seen as Early Warning / EWS

Early Warning is a nationwide specialty reporting company that receives checking- and savings-account history and activity from participating financial institutions.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Tenant screening

Experian RentBureau

Also seen as RentBureau

Experian RentBureau collects rent-payment history used by tenant-screening companies and may add some positive rental data to Experian credit reports.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Employment & income

Experian Verify

Also seen as Experian Verification Fulfillment

Experian Verify is an employment and income verification service whose employee portal provides access to verification data, request history, and privacy controls when an employer participates.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Specialty lending and alternative data

FactorTrust

Also seen as TransUnion FactorTrust

FactorTrust is a TransUnion-owned specialty reporting company that compiles nonprime loan-performance information and provides reports, analytics, and risk scores.

Free report path Freeze offered
Request, freeze & dispute details
Employment & income · Tenant screening

First Advantage

Also seen as First Advantage Resident Solutions

First Advantage uses one U.S. consumer-support workflow for employment and resident background reports, including reports delivered under its Resident Solutions name.

Free report path Freeze offered
Request, freeze & dispute details
Employment & income

HireRight

Also seen as backgroundchecks.com

HireRight provides employment background screening and post-hire workforce monitoring for employers.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Supplementary credit & identity

Innovis

Innovis provides credit and identity-verification data. Its consumer report is separate from reports at Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.

Free report path Freeze offered
Request, freeze & dispute details
Personal property insurance

LexisNexis C.L.U.E.

Also seen as C.L.U.E. / Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange

C.L.U.E. is LexisNexis’s insurance claims exchange. It reports up to seven years of auto and personal-property loss history for insurance underwriting and pricing.

Free report path Limited freeze path
Request, freeze & dispute details
Supplementary credit & identity

LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Also seen as LexisNexis Consumer Disclosure

LexisNexis Risk Solutions compiles public-record and proprietary identity and risk data used by financial institutions, insurers, healthcare organizations, and government agencies.

Free report path Limited freeze path
Request, freeze & dispute details
Medical & insurance underwriting

MIB

Also seen as Medical Information Bureau

MIB maintains coded information used with consumer authorization in underwriting individual life, health, disability, critical-illness, and long-term-care insurance.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Specialty lending and alternative data · Tenant screening · Employment & income

MicroBilt

Also seen as MicroBilt Consumer Affairs

MicroBilt maintains specialty consumer databases that can include recurring-bill repayment information and supplies reports or scores for lending, housing, employment, and other permitted decisions.

Free report path Freeze offered
Request, freeze & dispute details
Medical & insurance underwriting

Milliman IntelliScript

Also seen as IntelliScript / RxHistories

Milliman IntelliScript compiles prescription-drug purchase history and risk information used in underwriting certain individual insurance products.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Telecom & utilities

NCTUE

Also seen as National Consumer Telecom and Utilities Exchange

NCTUE is an industry exchange whose members share telecom, pay-TV, and utility application and account-payment information. Equifax services the database but is not an NCTUE member.

Free report path Freeze offered
Request, freeze & dispute details
Tenant screening

RealPage LeasingDesk

Also seen as LeasingDesk / RealPage resident screening

RealPage’s LeasingDesk services provide consumer data and resident screening to rental-property owners and managers.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Tenant screening

RentGrow

Also seen as Yardi RentGrow

RentGrow provides resident-screening reports to property owners and managers and is owned by Yardi Systems.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Tenant screening

SafeRent Solutions

Also seen as CoreLogic Rental Property Solutions / CoreLogic SafeRent

SafeRent provides tenant-screening reports and an applicant risk score to landlords and property managers. Older notices and forms may use the CoreLogic Rental Property Solutions name.

Free report path Limited freeze path
Request, freeze & dispute details
Supplementary credit & identity

SageStream

Also seen as Sage Stream / SageStream Consumer Report

SageStream is a LexisNexis Risk Solutions specialty reporting company that supplies supplementary consumer reports and scores for credit, retail, utility, wireless, auto, and other service decisions.

Free report path Limited freeze path
Request, freeze & dispute details
Employment & income

Sterling

Also seen as Sterling Check

Sterling provides background screening and workforce monitoring. First Advantage completed its acquisition of Sterling, but consumers may still see the Sterling name and support path.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Banking & payments

TeleCheck

TeleCheck provides check, account-opening, and payment-risk information to merchants and financial institutions and also supplies payment data for some credit underwriting.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Specialty lending and alternative data

Teletrack

Also seen as Equifax Teletrack

Teletrack is an Equifax-owned specialty reporting file used in nonprime lending and service decisions. Its current consumer site says Teletrack has united with DataX and directs general support to DataX.

Free report path Freeze offered
Request, freeze & dispute details
Retail returns

The Retail Equation

Also seen as TRE / Retail Activity Report

The Retail Equation provides retailer software that analyzes linked purchase, return, exchange, adjustment, and reshipment activity and recommends whether a retailer approve, warn, or deny a transaction.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
Employment & income

The Work Number

Also seen as Equifax Workforce Solutions / TALX

The Work Number is an Equifax Workforce Solutions database of employment and income information contributed by employers and payroll processors.

Free report path Freeze offered
Request, freeze & dispute details
Tenant screening

TransUnion SmartMove

Also seen as SmartMove / TransUnion Rental Screening Solutions

SmartMove provides tenant screening, estimated-income insights, resident risk scores, and leasing recommendations to landlords.

Free report path Freeze not listed by CFPB
Request, freeze & dispute details
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