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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• New ways to stop next-gen bots, which accounted for 43% of bot attacks last year, bypassing outdated defenses by using GenAI to nearly seamlessly mimic human-digital interactions

Explore state-level and industry level data that banks, credit unions and fintechs can leverage to track the downturn and be correctly positioned for the recovery in this monthly report.

As a service provider, you may be facing an uptick in delinquencies, making it crucial to optimize your debt collection strategies.

We’ve created a comprehensive free e-book, designed to show how you can bundle our innovative solutions for smarter, more efficient debt collection.

In this e-book, you’ll discover how to:

• Segment and prioritize: Identify high-yield accounts to accurately focus your collection efforts.
  
• Contact the right way: Maximize recovery by reaching debtors on their preferred communication channels.
  
• Streamline your operations: Use automated workflows to drive efficiency and improve results.

Fraud professionals are looking to behavioral analytics as the best defense against advanced fraud attacks. But exploring the various kinds of behavior tracking, the variety of pros and cons of different providers and ensuring a valuable test use case can be overwhelming.

This guide will help you evaluate every kind of behavioral analytics solution and incorporate best practices for an effective search and potential implementation.

It covers everything you need to know about behavior for fraud, including:

• Use cases that behavioral analytics can help solve and how to approach each in a strategic manner
• The benefits and potential downsides to a behavioral implementation, and how to prepare
• Value calculators to evaluate the short- and the long-term impact of  behavioral analytics 

As published on the Business Information blog, Experian's latest Commercial Pulse Report highlights how risk profiles vary significantly by industry and business age.

🔹 New businesses in sectors like Construction and Food Services face higher delinquency rates, signaling elevated credit risks.
🔹 Meanwhile, industries like Retail and Healthcare maintain stable performance, regardless of business maturity—offering balanced opportunities for lenders.

Understanding these dynamics is critical for tailoring lending strategies, mitigating risk, and supporting business growth across industries.

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

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Financial institutions need to understand how well a score predicts behavior, such as payment delinquency or bankruptcy, to make more confident lending decisions. By conducting score validations regularly, organizations can ensure they're using the latest data to optimize their lending strategies.

The results of these score validations can be affected by:

• A dynamic economic environment
• Changes in regulation
• Scorecard degradation

Download this infographic to learn more about the importance of regular score validations and how it can have a significant impact on your business.

In this webinar, Experian industry experts dive into our latest research on the convergence of credit and fraud risk. Discover what's driving these trends and how forward-thinking organizations can enhance risk management and operational efficiency by breaking down silos.

Watch to learn:

• How new and emerging fraud threats are reshaping fraud risk and impacting portfolio management.
  
• Increasing operational efficiency and enhancing risk assessment with centralized credit and fraud strategies.
  
• Aligning fraud prevention with your organization’s risk tolerance.

Read how Elevate uses behavioral analytics to detect fraud rings and streamline workflows, resulting in a near-total elimination of fraud losses and decreased operational costs.

Key Results:

• $1-2 million in annual savings from improved fraud detection and operational efficiency
• Real-time detection of fraud attacks
• Fine-tuned applicant flow for different levels of risk without adding friction

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the credit card landscape, offering key insights to help your business tackle today’s challenges and uncover opportunities for growth.

Key insights:

• Credit card debt reached an all-time high of $1.17 trillion in Q3 2024.
• About 19 million U.S. households were considered underbanked in 2023.
• Bot-led fraud attacks doubled from January to June 2024.