Economic Outlook and the Influence on Debt Collections

Experian's 2025 Future of Fraud Forecast reveals five emerging fraud threats that could challenge businesses and consumers in 2025.

Key insights:

• This year’s predictions show that fraudsters will continue to double down on the digital landscape and leverage Generative AI (Gen AI) to commit sophisticated crimes at a rapid pace.
  
• Half of consumers surveyed said they are concerned about conducting activities online.
  
• 75% of companies cite cybercrime as a top concern.

Explore Experian's award-winning AI fraud prevention strategies in Juniper Research’s exclusive Mover & Shaker interview with Keir Breitenfeld, SVP, Fraud & Identity. Learn how cutting-edge technologies like behavioral analytics and dynamic datasets combat evolving fraud threats, ensuring seamless security without compromising user experience.

Experian was recognized as the Platinum Winner of Juniper Research’s Future Digital Awards: Identity Verification Innovation.

Financial institutions are integrating fraud mitigation, credit risk assessment, and compliance, exploring the use of combined data or leveraging shared technology to minimize overall business risk while pursuing growth objectives.

This report highlights:

• The need for a unified strategy that addresses overlapping and distinct requirements across credit, fraud and compliance.
• The importance of convergence across operations to drive more efficient and effective risk management
• How financial institutions are restructuring to keep up with increasing complexity, independent evolution, regulatory demands, advanced fraud techniques and early stages of convergence.

The 2025 Fraud Defense Playbook gives you practical strategies to stay ahead of coming fraud trends and tactics, including:

• How to improve identity theft detection, even as identity theft is surging to the #1 fraud type, supercharged by GenAI tools that enable fraudsters to exploit stolen data at scale
• Tactics to stop APP fraud, which rose to the #2 fraud type in 2024, breaking into the top 3 for the first time (and signaling the pace of fraud to come)
• New ways to stop next-gen bots, which accounted for 43% of bot attacks last year, bypassing outdated defenses by using GenAI to nearly seamlessly mimic human-digital interactions