To support our offer of services, we rely on a comprehensive database, built over many years of operations in our markets, at a competitive acquisition cost. Our long history of operations and leadership in the sector has allowed us to build comprehensive and exclusive databases, which are hard to replicate by a new market participant or competitor. Our database differentiates us from other companies that depend on third parties to develop their analytical products, such as FICO, which despite its success in other countries, still has a small presence in Brazil even after being present in the Brazilian market for several years.
We entered into several partnerships to purchase data and information to expand our database at competitive costs. In addition to purchasing data from third parties, we also benefit from the loyalty of our client base, having approximately 21,000 active clients, including financial institutions, fintechs and the main corporate and retail groups in Brazil. We can develop and extract intelligence from many sets of proprietary data of our clients, without necessarily transferring this data to us, by developing tools for consultation on consumer credit, consumption and default. We use analytical intelligence to combine this data with other data on our database. These sets of proprietary data, such as those generated by the use of our risk analytics by our clients, and data provided by clients add further value to the data we have acquired, allowing us to create analytical variables that are difficult to replicate. Hybrid analytical initiatives include our database combined with third-party databases, as in the case of an e-commerce client that provided its transactional base for study. This set of client data, associated with our data and intelligence, provided a new vision of customers and their behaviors. As a result, our client was able to prepare product offers for its customer base in a more assertive manner. This model is replicated when requested by any of our clients.
We believe that the coverage and volume of our database and our ability to continuously expand it through acquisitions and development of proprietary data distinguish us in the market in which we operate.