• by Ray Schultz , February 5, 2020

LexisNexis Risk Solutions will acquire Emailage, a provider of fraud prevention tools, the company has announced. Terms were not disclosed. 

The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2020, subject to regulatory approval.

Emailage provides “broad email and digital data attributes network, inquiry data and confirmed fraud feedback,” states Rick Trainor, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, business services.

In addition, it builds predictive risk scores tied to customer email addresses.

Emailage, which is based in the Phoenix area and has offices worldwide, will be part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ business services group.

The firm was founded in 2012, and claims to analyze 39.9 billion transactions per year.