State of Card: Unmasking Fraud Disguised as Credit Risk

As Tribal lending evolves, understanding how consumer behavior, credit demand and portfolio performance are shifting is becoming increasingly important for effective risk strategy.

• Examine emerging credit and consumer trends across Tribal lending
• Understand where risk and growth opportunities are shifting
• Explore how more specialized data and analytics can improve risk differentiation
• Consider how purpose-built scoring can support more informed lending decisions

Discover how an e-commerce company strengthened fraud prevention using email-based identity intelligence to:

• Identify suspicious accounts during registration and guest checkout.
• Reduce fake accounts, attempted fraud and chargebacks.
• Improve conversion while minimizing friction for legitimate customers.
• Implement a new fraud prevention approach in approximately two weeks.

See how evolving credit scores, alternative data, and verification tools could help lenders improve the mortgage process and expand access to homeownership.

In this HousingWire conversation, Allison LaForgia speaks with Michele Bodda, Group President of Experian Housing, Verification Solutions and Employer Services. Bodda discusses how lenders can put modern credit scoring and consumer data to work in underwriting today.

Watch the video to hear about:

• Using alternative credit data to better represent consumers with limited traditional credit histories

• Bringing the right information into the underwriting process at the right time

• How Power Profile Plus lets lenders request another score later in the process without repurchasing the underlying credit data

• Experian’s investment in income and employment verification, including its partnership with Workday

• Opportunities to improve efficiency and help more people pursue homeownership

Explore credit card market trends through Q2 2026, including changes in originations, issuer performance and consumer segments.

• Track secured and unsecured credit card growth.
• Compare national banks, regional banks, credit unions, fintechs and subprime issuers.
• Examine origination trends by credit score and generation.