Argus Information & Advisory Services, LLC

Argus Information & Advisory Services, LLC provides benchmarking, scoring solutions, analytics, and customized services to financial institutions for making marketing and risk management decisions. The company offers syndicated studies related to credit card payments, small business cards, private label cards, and deposit account payments. It also provides customer share of wallet, a cross-issuer link that provides the view of a customers wallet; a hosted data warehouse and analytics solution that requires no hardware, software, or IT support; mergers and acquisitions portfolio strategy, a solution that helps to analyze the account characteristics of a credit card portfolio; and WhiteBox, a cross-product MIS and data warehousing solution that maximizes the use of customer information to optimize strategic and tactical decisions. In addition, the company offers advisory services, including marketing program and risk management support. It serves credit and debit card issuers, retail banks and other consumer financial services providers, payment processors, insurance companies, and other industry stakeholders in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The company has strategic partnerships with First Data Corporation; SAS Institute Inc.; TransUnion; and Visa Inc. Argus Information & Advisory Services, LLC was founded in 1997 and is based in White Plains, New York with additional offices in San Francisco, California; and London, United Kingdom. As of August 31, 2012, Argus Information & Advisory Services, LLC operates as a subsidiary of Insurance Services Office, Inc.