credit bureau
credit bureau 资信调查所；征信所；资信咨询机构 这一机构以收集与企业和个人的资信有关的信息为业，并作成报告的形式公开，目的是为了向信息需求者如商人、银行、供应商等提供信息。在美国，其业务由联邦法及州法律予以调整。大多数的征信所都是美国联合资信调查所〔Associated Credit Bureau of America〕的成员。
CREDIT BUREAU
credit bureau
credit bureau. An organization that compiles information on people’s creditworthiness and publishes it in the form of reports that are used chiefly by merchants and service providers who deal directly with customers. • The practices of credit bureaus are regulated by federal (and often state) law. Most bureaus are members of the Associated Credit Bureaus