Hints and tips:
...The company behind the entrapment racket is called Webloyalty International SARL, which seems to be part of a private American concern called Affinion Group....
...They were also sold by AIB Group, trading as First Trust Bank and Allied Irish Bank; Capital One; Clydesdale; Northern Bank, trading as Danske Bank; Tesco Personal Finance and the Co-Operative Bank....
...The issuers and providers who have voluntarily entered the scheme so far include Affinion, AIB Group (trading as First Trust Bank in Northern Ireland and Allied Irish Bank (GB) in the rest of the UK); Barclays...
...Shares in CPP, the identity theft protection group, endured a tumultuous week after it became a bid target for Affinion Group, a US marketing company....
...Last year a proposed offer from US group Affinion was withdrawn....
...CPP Group, the credit card protection provider that was fined by the Financial Services Authority, dropped 42.1 per cent after US peer Affinion said it had decided against making a takeover offer....
...My beef at the time was that I had been charged for a service that I didn’t want by a company called Affinion, which develops marketing programmes for banks....
...An approach for sector peer CPP Group from marketing company Affinion “challenges the assumption that a buyer would not step in with so much uncertainty,” said Liberum Securities....
...CPP Group , the credit card protection specialist, slumped 21.3 per cent to 15.8p after US peer Affinion said it had decided not to make a takeover offer....
...CPP will not be well-placed to haggle if US marketing group Affinion turns its October approach into a formal offer....
...Now Mr Williams, previously chief financial officer at Affinion Group and AT&T Networks, will be charged with executing on a strategy he did not devise....
...general office has issued subpoenas to 22 leading e-commerce retailers seeking information on their dealings with three leading providers of “post-transaction” sales services - Webloyalty, Vertrue and Affinion...
...CUC became part of Cendant, was then renamed Trilegiant and sold to Apollo Management, then later renamed Affinion....
...He seemed to pursue the American dream: a degree in computing followed by an MBA; business jobs at Elizabeth Arden, the cosmetics company, and Affinion, a financial marketing company; marriage to a Colorado-born...
...Affinion (Apollo Management) , Vertrue (a group of private equity investors led by One Equity Partners, the private equity arm of JP Morgan), Webloyalty (General Atlantic LLC) and their e-commerce partners...
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