Welcome to the Experian Thought Leadership Hub

While all eyes are on the impact of tariffs, immigration policy, and other proposals coming out of the new administration, the five key trends that I’ll be watching in 2025 have been playing out over the last couple of years and will be important to how the economy and lending market unfolds in the year ahead.

Trends include:

• The slowdown in the “white-collar” job market
• The stabilization of consumer delinquency
• The letting up of lending standard tightening

Credit risk, fraud, and compliance have long operated in silos, but forward-thinking organizations are unlocking new opportunities through convergence.

Read our e-book to learn how aligning these critical functions can help you:

• Reduce overall risk
• Improve operational efficiency
• Stay ahead of the competition

In today's fast-paced world, locating individuals quickly is crucial for debt collectors and lenders. TrueTrace™, Experian’s leading skip tracing software, has undergone significant enhancements, improving data accuracy and expanding data sources.

These upgrades offer:

• Increased right-party contact (RPC) rates
• Better cost efficiency
• Improved user experience

Call blocking, mislabeling, and increased scam activity have led to a decline in RPC rates. TrueTrace addresses these challenges with enhanced data accuracy, using an identity graph to tie data from disparate sources to a unique identity profile for each consumer.

TrueTrace's enhancements represent a significant advancement in skip tracing technology, helping businesses achieve better results and operational efficiency.

Experian's State of Credit Unions Report explores data-driven credit trends in the credit union space, with a particular focus on auto loans, unsecured personal loans and unsecured credit cards.

Take a deep dive into:

• Trends in originations and delinquencies among credit union members
• How credit unions fare against other financial institutions
• Strategies to attract new members and mitigate portfolio risk

This week's Commercial Pulse Report highlights key economic trends and small business credit conditions, providing insights for lenders, risk professionals, and business leaders.

The U.S. economy continues to face high interest rates and shifting market conditions:

• Inflation rose to 2.9% in December, marking its third consecutive increase and the highest level since July 2024.
• Unemployment declined to 4.0% in January, the lowest level since April 2024, but job growth slowed, with only 143K jobs added.
• Q4 GDP grew at 2.3%, down from 3.1% in Q3, indicating a moderate but slowing expansion.
• The Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady, reinforcing concerns about persistent inflation.

This report features the latest findings from the Experian Small Business Index™, a data-driven tool tracking small business financial health.

Check out the full report to see how these trends could impact your strategy!

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As a background screener, your ability to prevent fraud depends not only on your internal processes but also on the quality of your data and solutions partner. Are you confident you’re working with the right partner to detect and mitigate fraud effectively?

Our Fraud Prevention Checklist is designed to guide background screening professionals in selecting a data partner that enhances their screening process. Inside, you’ll find critical questions and considerations, including: 

Key steps for early identity verification to flag fraudulent applicants 

• The importance of leveraging trusted and robust data sources for cross-verification 
• Advanced tools like synthetic identity detection, biometric verification and behavioral analytics 
• Ensuring your partner is aligned with the latest fraud prevention trends  

Download the checklist now to ensure your screening process is supported by the right partner and stays fraud resistant. 

Generative AI is transforming fraud at an unprecedented pace — making attacks faster, more sophisticated, and harder to detect.
In this webinar, our fraud experts discuss key trends for 2025 and share actionable strategies to strengthen your defenses.

What you'll learn:

• The top three fraud threats to watch in 2025.
• How fraud leaders are tackling GenAI-driven attacks.
• Practical strategies for building a future-ready fraud stack.

Watch now to stay ahead of the evolving fraud landscape.

A top bank struggled to efficiently stop evolving fraud attacks. Fraudsters incurred unnecessary expenses as they worked downstream in the bank’s onboarding flow, with some even beating the bank’s defense’s entirely. After implementing behavioral analytics, the bank was able to detect attacks 4x faster and stop sophisticated attacks that their other tools couldn’t.

Key Results:

• 4x faster fraud detection resulting in a 30% reduction in digital onboarding costs
• Effective detection of modern attack strategies that bypassed other fraud mitigation tools
• 40% of manually approved fraud cases identified as risky by NeuroID

Overwhelmed by evolving fraud attacks and a heavy reliance on manual reviews, a leading credit union turned to NeuroID’s behavioral analytics to spot advanced fraudsters and stop attacks in real time.

Key Results:

• Improved top-of-funnel fraud detection, reducing fraud losses, false positives, and unnecessary step-ups
• Decreased manual review workload, freeing up over 40 hours a month for customer service and growth initiatives
• Real-time detection of attacks, providing improved protection and confidence in fraud mitigation capabilities