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Major refresh of CheckMEND site released

09 2011

CheckMEND is delighted to announce a comprehensive refresh of the CheckMEND site for USA members. Les Gray the CTO of CheckMEND made a statement saying "We are delighted to see the increased use of the service in the USA and as a result we have made some cosmetic and functional changes to the site to improve the user experience. We have adopted several suggestions made by members and welcome any further feedback "

CheckMEND functionality incorporated into Snuko's mobile security solution

09 2011

CheckMEND has agreed to allow the mobile phone security software provide Snuko to send data to it direct from their application. Ross Stewart Chairman of CheckMEND said "once again we can see the value chain of the CheckMEND functionality and it makes perfect sense to allow people who make the effort to secure their mobile devices via Snuko to be able to alert us if the worse does happen and they have their device stolen or lose it. We can clearly see integrating this sort of functionality directly into a handset or PC with a web based support application in place in the event of loss or theft has to be the way forward. "

Watchfacts adopts CheckMEND as part of its service

08 2011

Watchfacts the USA largest history reporting service for high end watches has chosen to partner with CheckMEND allowing CheckMEND information to supplement the other information they hold. Adrian Portlock CheckMEND's CEO said "we are delighted to welcome Watchfacts as a partner and hope that the addition of our information will enable them to provide an even more comprehensive service for their customers.

Major new client adopts CheckMEND

05 2011

CheckMEND is delighted to announce that a major new US client has signed up to provide its services to its clients. The operator is a major provider of trade in services to thousands of retail stores in the USA and the agreement allows them to provide the CheckMEND service within their trade in platform. Adrian Portlock CEO of CheckMEND said "this is a major step forward for us in the USA and opens the door for this type of integration allowing us to provide us services seamlessly into US retailers that are offering their customers a trade-in solution."

Over 18,000 law enforcement agencies provide data to CheckMEND

09 2010

CheckMEND is delighted to announce that through its relationship with Trace it is now able to include stolen information from over 18,000 US law enforcement agencies within its history reports. Neil Stewart CheckMEND's Commercial Director said "Our increased integration with the Trace database system means that we can supplement our history reports with data from their system expanding the breadth of our reports for US customers, this is a great endorsement of the power and quality of our service. "

Important information about CDMA checking

08 2010

Please note that CheckMEND is not connected to the US CDMA networks contract database and as a result we cannot tell you if a CDMA phone is currently under contract, we are working on this and hope to include this data very soon.

CEX USA starts to use CheckMEND in store

10 2009

CEX the major second hand retailer has extended its UK agreement to cover its USA stores allowing them to use CheckMEND to ensure the items they take into their outlets are not recorded as stolen. Neil Stewart CheckMEND Commercial Director said "CEX are a big and valued customer in Europe and we are delighted they have expanded into the USA and are now using our service on a global basis, we wish them continued success in their expansion and look forward to working with them and further enhancing our partnership."

Boston pawnbroker's trial CheckMEND

09 2009

Suffolk Pawn & Empire Pawn brokers in Boston have agreed to provide transaction information to CheckMEND so it can be viewed by Boston PD via the NMPR.

CheckMEND's owners take over Trace

07 2009

Recipero the company behind CheckMEND has taken over the running of the Trace database system from Mythings. Neil Stewart the Commercial Director of Recipero and CheckMEND said "this is a great outcome for us as it means that over the coming months we will be able to integrate the data sets from Trace within the CheckMEND history reports expanding our result set for all our trade and consumer customers."

CheckMEND's owners take over PhoneHistoryReport

05 2009

Recipero the company behind CheckMEND has taken over the running of the PhoneHistoryReport database system. Neil Stewart the Commercial Director of Recipero and CheckMEND said "we are delighted to be taking over the running of the very successful service as once again it allows us to provide even more comprehensive information to our customers within the CheckMEND history reports "

New CheckMEND web site goes live in America

04 2009

CheckMEND is delighted to announce the launch of its new website in America. The site has been totally rebuild to accommodate a whole host of new functions following the acquisition of the Trace database last year plus the impending roll out of the service to all licensed second-hand trader in Boston. Adrian Portlock CEO and founder of Recipero, the owner of CheckMEND, said "the launch of this new site which is packed with a whole range of new functionality gives America access to all the 150 billion records we hold globally on used goods. This will help the trade and the US Citizen ensure what they are buying is legitimate and legal and that they are paying a fair price for it and for the first time allow law enforcement to compare transaction data directly with crime data allowing them to easily identify and recover stolen goods."

New traders adopt CheckMEND

02 2009

CheckMEND is delighted to announce its currently working with several second-hand traders and pawnbrokers to finalise the design and functionality of its new service.