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Employer name change - National Hunter "inconsistency"

Krisko · 2014-12-21 22:20:05

Hi, I just read about the National Hunter Agency, and got a bit curious. In January my employer will change it's name from "Company Ltd" to "Corporate Ltd". If I apply for credit in February saying that I've been working at "Corporate Ltd" for 12months that will probably result in an "inconsistency" mark on my National…

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Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite

22 December 2014 at 1:39PM

Krisko wrote: »

If lenders made their decisions solely on information from NH they would most likely get a lot of untruthful customers, who are good sticking to their story and rejecting many truthful customers they should like to have.

NH is merely a tool with which to eradicate fraudulent applications. Lenders themselves own NH and use it to share data with other other lenders. While lenders are competing for business. Everyone wants to minimise the risk of losing money.

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