Fraud and Identity Challenges for Fintechs

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.