Cortera was founded on the premise that credit and financial departments needed better, more... predictive information in order to protect their business’s assets. Our database, known as the Cortera Credit Exchange, began over 20 years ago in the transportation industry. Since then, we have reached impressive milestones bringing our information capture to over 10 million businesses and over $1.3 trillion in annual spend. Data networks are difficult to create from scratch, so we started by acquiring eCredit (web-based workflow automated tool started in 1993) and TCE (transportation industry credit bureau started in 1995) in 2006. Read full description