Card Briefs: Tower Group Starts Credit Research Unit

Tower Group, a consulting firm that specializes in financial services technology, has started a research division coveringconsumer credit.

The unit will offer research on the credit card, mortgage, and auto finance markets, on such topics as loan automation, risk scoring, and payment processing.

Robert J. Landry, Tower's group director for retail banking and consumer credit, heads the new division, which includes three analysts.

"While Tower has published research on consumer credit topics for several years, we created this new, separate service because there is a real need for a more focused research product that is designed to address the unique technology research requirements of the consumer credit industry," Mr. Landry said.

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