By: Staci Baker With the increase in consumer behaviors such as ‘strategic default’, it has become increasingly difficult during the past few years for...
We’ve blogged about fraud alerts, fraud analytics, fraud models and fraud best practices. Sometimes, though, we delude ourselves into thinking that fraud prevention strategies we put...
I recently attended a conference where Credit Union managers spoke of the many changes facing their industry in the wake of the real estate...
Well, in my last blog, I was half right and half wrong. I said that individual trade associations and advocacy groups would continue to...
By: Kristan Frend I recently gave a presentation on small business fraud at the annual National Association of Credit Managers (NACM) Credit Congress. Following...
By: Staci Baker As more people have become underwater on their mortgage, the decision to stay or not stay in their home has evolved...
By: Kari Michel The Federal Reserve’s decision to permit card issuers to use income estimation models to meet the Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD)...
Well, here we are about two weeks from the Federal Trade Commission’s June 1, 2010 Red Flags Rule enforcement date. While this date has...
By: Kari Michel Credit quality deteriorated across the credit spectrum during the recession that began in December, 2007. As the recession winds down, lenders...
By: Wendy Greenawalt The auto industry has been hit hard by this Great Recession. Recently, some good news has emerged from the captive lenders, and...
By: Staci Baker With the shift in the economy, it has become increasingly more difficult to gauge — in advance — what a consumer is...
Since 2007, when the housing and credit crises started to unfold, we’ve seen unemployment rates continue to rise (9.7% in March 2010 *) with...
A common request for information we receive pertains to shifts in credit score trends. While broader changes in consumer migration are well documented –...
By: Wendy Greenawalt Optimization has become somewhat of a buzzword lately being used to solve all sorts of problems. This got me thinking about what...
I received a call on my cell phone the other day. It was my bank calling because a transaction outside of my normal behavior pattern...
