Welcome to the Experian Thought Leadership Hub

Explore key trends shaping the U.S. labor market and how workers are faring in today's economy.

• Examine job creation, unemployment and wage growth
• Explore research on AI's labor market impact
• See how healthcare is driving employment growth

Telecom providers are operating in a mature market where customer behavior and credit trends are shaping performance. This report explores how those shifts influence outcomes across the lifecycle, including:

• Early-stage delinquency and payment behavior
• Acquisition and upgrade exposure
• Alternative data, including ITIN populations
• Lifecycle drivers of long-term performance

Discover how AI, fraud and identity are reshaping digital trust. Based on research with U.S. consumers and businesses, this report explores emerging trends and practical strategies.

• Understand today's evolving fraud landscape and AI-driven threats
• Learn how identity intelligence supports trust and customer experience
• Explore consumer expectations for security, privacy and personalization
• Prepare for the future of agentic commerce and digital trust

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 the economic and consumer trends shaping today's lending environment.

• U.S. economic outlook and market conditions
• Consumer credit demand and financial stress trends
• Lending performance across major credit products
• Key indicators to inform lending and portfolio strategies

AI is being adopted faster than the internet and personal computer, and financial services organizations are at the forefront of the transformation. Discover how lenders are leveraging AI across the lending lifecycle – from underwriting and origination to portfolio management – and what these innovations mean for the future of credit.

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.

• Understand how affordability is reshaping renter behavior
• Explore generational shifts and rising rent burdens
• Analyze mobility, migration and payment trends
• Learn how financial conditions impact renter outcomes

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.