Internation credit report?

Credit reporting gurus, attend! I got to wondering, in today’s jet-set global economy, how extensive is international credit reporting? I know if I were planning on selling someone a used Yugo in Paris I’d want to know if they defaulted on their car loan in Alabama. What’s the likelihood that I could pull their report from an American credit bureau or that a French credit bureau would have the information? Conversely, how likely is it that my defaulted student loan from the University of Luxembourg will show up on my US credit report? Do the “Big Three” in the US exchange data with foreign bureaus? How do foreign debts (assuming they are reported) affect one’s credit scores?

For individuals i believe there is no international reporting. I live on both sides of the Atlantic and as far as insurance, credit, etc I might as well be two different people. In other words, you would have to get a credit report from where ever that person has lived. Maybe there are ways to get it from abroad but I do not hthink there is any unversal credit place wherer you just give them a name and they give you the information of anyone with that name in the whole wide world.

When I moved to the US, the US mortgage company had no way of checking my credit history in the UK. They were even more puzzled when they asked for information from UK companies with which I had accounts and were told that the information was private and couldn’t be released. In the end, they seemed happy with letters from companies like BT saying that I had been in good standing on my phone bill of typically $150/quarter and on that basis gave me a six-figure mortgage. There again, the fact I was paying a 45% deposit probably helped!