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Clarity Services, a part of Experian, provides valuable alternative credit data to alternative financial service providers. Clarity's alternative data gives lenders a more complete picture of nonprime applicants, so they can make better and more informed decisions.

We analyzed the trends and financial behavior of nonprime consumers by looking at application and loan data in Clarity's specialty credit bureau from 2014 through 2018. A study sample of more than 350 million consumer loan applications and more than 25 million loans was created and leveraged to evaluate market trends during this period. Data from Experian's national credit bureau was also used to help profile consumers.

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In response to increasing interest in the mining industry, Experian® completed a review of the coal, natural gas and oil/petroleum industries, along with their impact on small businesses. Depending on the region of the United States, fossil fuel mining is both increasing and decreasing. With the current changes in these industries, the impact on other industries ranges from an increase in new small businesses to an increase in delinquencies. To understand the nuances of the fossil fuel industry, Experian® conducted a further study on Kentucky, West Virginia and North Dakota was done to analyze the impact that industry changes have on the economy of individual states.

Small businesses have varying credit needs which evolve as the business matures from inception to maturity. Experian sought to understand what kinds of credit these businesses needed at different stages of the business lifecycle and how lenders could best serve small business by offering right sized capital at the optimal time. The analysis involved a study of trade credit profiles for one million businesses between 2010 and 2016 and the results are surprising and compelling.

By watching this webinar you will learn:

• The types of loans businesses secure change as they evolve and mature;
• As businesses grow, they establish more trade credit and rely less on financial loans
• Each industry showed unique pattern of loan opening behavior

When businesses face a financial burden, they will prioritize which creditors are essential and which are not. In this webinar, we share research which will help you determine if there is a consistent overall prioritization by industry.

If a new company has not yet established a credit history, many lenders turn to the business owner's personal credit to evaluate risk. But does personal credit alone paint an accurate picture of a new business's risk? Is there a more optimal way to determine how creditworthy a young company may be?

To find answers, Experian® randomly selected the credit files of 2.5 million U.S. small-business owners and compared them with the records of 1 million consumers. We then looked at the credit history of both groups, as well as key demographic data such as age, education and income. We also reviewed the number of open trades, delinquencies, bankruptcies and business survival rates. The results of this research are explained in this whitepaper.

When attempting to determine a small business's credit risk, which is more useful, the company's credit history or its owner's? For decades, conventional wisdom has held that a business owner's personal credit history alone can be used to judge his or her company's creditworthiness. Many lenders have tended to see small businesses and Small Business owners as one and the same, their funds so frequently commingled as to make the two entities virtually indistinguishable. However, this strategy is not always successful. A business owner with good personal credit still can have a failing company, and someone whose personal credit is messy still can own a successful business. Since a bad call can cost a creditor thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of dollars, Experian® decided to test the conventional wisdom for itself.

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