Welcome to the Experian Thought Leadership Hub

Join Experian for an exclusive look into the forces reshaping the rental housing landscape. This webinar reveals how shifting renter demographics, rising affordability pressures, and evolving credit behaviors are impacting the market. Discover actionable insights on rent trends, payment risk, and the power of rent reporting—plus, get ahead of macroeconomic shifts influencing housing demand in 2025.

Join Experian’s Dark Web Intelligence Team to explore how to score consumers’ identity health and the benefits for both businesses and consumers.

We'll break down:

• The accelerating risk of identity exposure on the dark web and what it means for your organization and your customers
• Case studies of fraud events detected through dark web alerts
• How Experian's Identity Health Score translates signal data into action, helping you identify at-risk consumers, upsell safely, inform cyber insurance strategies, and protect employees

The 2025 U.S. rental market reflects broader economic conditions, shaped by shifting market forces and ongoing uncertainty. Landlords and property managers are navigating a complex landscape where understanding renter behavior, affordability challenges, and macroeconomic pressures is key to maintaining stable occupancy. By staying informed on these trends, they can better attract and retain long-term tenants.

Key Insights:

• Renter Financial Pressure: Renters across all demographics are facing rising debt and affordability issues, impacting their housing stability.
• Rent-to-Income Imbalance: Rent prices continue to rise faster than incomes, increasing the financial burden on tenants nationwide.
• Macroeconomic Impact: Factors like interest rates, unemployment, and housing development are reshaping rental market dynamics.
• Strategic Adaptation Needed: Landlords must adapt to evolving renter preferences and market conditions to ensure long-term success.

With the recent Fed announcement and fewer interest rate cuts on the horizon, it’s time to posture your organization more defensively. Where to start? A portfolio management activity that is often overlooked is the accuracy behind classifying fraud and credit risk.

Join our experts for an insightful webinar where they’ll review:

• The state of the Credit Card industry
• The value of performing lookback reviews – beyond accuracy
• Credit tools to help your portfolio management strategies

This week’s Commercial Pulse Report from Experian reveals critical shifts in the economy for small businesses. Inflation eased slightly to 2.8%, and the Small Business Index ticked up to 41.5—signs of stabilization. But rising financial fraud remains a major concern. Also:

🔒 70% increase in fraud since the pandemic

🧠 $40B in projected losses from AI-driven scams by 2027

📊 46% of SMB loan applications showed signs of first-party fraud

Lenders are responding with AI-powered analytics and cross-industry collaboration to stay ahead of these threats.

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

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Key themes and emerging trends shaping financial services in 2025, using research and insight from leading industry analysts. Themes include:

• Fraud evolution driven by AI
  
• AI will play a transformative role in banking
  
• Emergence of RegTech
  
• Convergence of risk management

Recent statistics reveal a direct connection between employee identity theft and business vulnerabilities. Compromised employee credentials can be a common entry point for fraudsters and putting your organization’s cybersecurity at risk. 

• Up to 80% of cyberattacks leverage identity-based attack methods, and many breaches stem from phishing attacks targeting employee login details
  
• The average cost of a data breach was $4.88 million in 2024, the highest average on record.
  
• Cyberattacks are becoming more common, striking 4,000 times per day.

Credit risk, fraud, and compliance have long operated in silos, but forward-thinking organizations are unlocking new opportunities through convergence.

Read our e-book to learn how aligning these critical functions can help you:

• Reduce overall risk
• Improve operational efficiency
• Stay ahead of the competition

Generative AI is transforming fraud at an unprecedented pace — making attacks faster, more sophisticated, and harder to detect.
In this webinar, our fraud experts discuss key trends for 2025 and share actionable strategies to strengthen your defenses.

What you'll learn:

• The top three fraud threats to watch in 2025.
• How fraud leaders are tackling GenAI-driven attacks.
• Practical strategies for building a future-ready fraud stack.

Watch now to stay ahead of the evolving fraud landscape.