Santo Domingo.- The country’s leading credit bureau, Data Credito, announced that it will receive from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) new information which can be used to rank credit risk in the businesses which don’t have legal software  licenses.

The organization signed an agreement with the BSA via which the start of the use of computers programs by the companies, as one of the many factors to measure the credit rating of businesses.

Present in the a press conference were Data Credito executives George Lopez Nieto and Roddy Martinez, and for the BSA, Jaime Ángeles, Miguel Luis Llenas Martí and Montserrat Durán.

Llenas said based on the Copyright Law new measures have been taken to register the companies which are up to date with their program licenses, adding that Data Cedito will recognize and rank the category such as the use of software of the businesses, and will be reflected in their credit record according to their legality, directly impacting the risk classification of the companies.