Welcome to the Experian Thought Leadership Hub

Read the latest State of Fintech Report to see strategy playbook fintechs are implementing in 2026 and beyond. Key insights include:

• How fintech leaders are balancing growth, fraud risk and portfolio performance
• Why data strategy is becoming a competitive advantage in credit decisioning
• How identity, credit and behavioral signals are enabling smarter lifecycle decisions
• Practical actions fintech organizations can take to grow with confidence in 2026

Understand how first-party fraud is changing across financial institutions and what it means for your organization. Learn from Experian experts using industry benchmark data. 

• Explore year-over-year first-party fraud trends 
• Compare fraud rates across banks, credit unions and fintechs 
• Learn practical strategies to benchmark and strengthen fraud prevention 

Discover where leading institutions are taking decisioning:

• Explores why intelligent decisioning is becoming a competitive advantage for financial institutions.
• Examines research on AI, data, governance and decision intelligence.
• Highlights common modernization challenges and practical strategies for improving decision outcomes.

Discover how lenders can strengthen prime portfolio performance by combining traditional credit risk strategies with first-party fraud analytics to identify hidden risk and improve early payment default detection.

Key insights:

• Traditional credit scores measure ability to repay but may not identify consumers with no intent to repay. 
• First-party fraud models can uncover hidden early payment default risk within prime portfolios and improve risk segmentation. 
• Research shows measurable lift in early delinquency detection and ROI when fraud analytics complement credit scoring.

Uncover how a coordinated fraud ring scaled into a full force ATO invasion, connecting 166 devices across nearly 300 accounts in just 30 days. Explore how specialized roles from reconnaissance to monetization worked together to bypass controls, exploit vulnerabilities, and outpace defenses, and why real time behavioral, device, and network intelligence is critical to stopping attacks early.

Dive into a large-scale account takeover (ATO) attack where loosely coordinated fraudsters use low-touch logins to validate credentials and harvest data across 100+ accounts. Learn how unstructured fraud rings achieve rapid scale, why behavior is the hardest signal to fake, and how multidimensional analysis exposes hidden connections to stop attacks early.

See how a single attacker leveraged fraud ring tactics to compromise over 50 accounts in under 30 days—and how to detect and stop solo account takeover attacks at scale.

Key insights:

• Lone fraudsters can replicate fraud ring tactics using playbooks, tools and stolen credentials
• A single device can target dozens of accounts rapidly with consistent, repeatable actions
• Behavioral, device and location signals help distinguish imposters from legitimate users
• Stopping high-risk devices early prevents attacks from scaling across multiple accounts

Explore how modern fraudsters use coordinated, strategic attack methods—and learn how to detect, disrupt and prevent them using behavioral intelligence and real-time insights.

Key insights:

• Fraudsters use structured attack strategies like reconnaissance, blitzes and deception to exploit weaknesses
• AI-driven bots and automation are rapidly increasing the scale and speed of fraud attacks
• Behavioral analytics reveals hidden fraud signals traditional tools miss
• Early detection and layered defenses help stop attacks before they escalate

Uncover a coordinated account takeover fraud ring in action and learn how it was stopped using behavioral, device and network intelligence.

Key insights:

• Fraud rings operate with structured roles to efficiently execute account takeover attacks
• Compromised accounts can be connected across devices, revealing coordinated activity
• Behavioral, device and network intelligence expose fraud signals traditional tools miss
• Stopping ATO requires identifying and dismantling the full fraud ring, not just individual logins