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Key insights for identifying and leveraging growth opportunities in the Alternative Finance Services market.

Discover invaluable insights with Experian Clarity Services' 2024 Alternative Financial Services Lending Trends report. This exclusive report reveals trends and consumer behaviors, from market size to loan performance. Equip yourself with the essential information to plan effectively and stay ahead.

Leverage the right insights to learn how you can effectively grow in this environment.

Acquire valuable perspectives to drive decision making with our Q3 insights Report.

This Report offers granular data on a vast number of different consumer insights that will allow you to build the foundation for a successful lending strategy and create benchmarks needed to improve your financial inclusion efforts, prospecting, risk management and more.

Access our 2018 trends Report, which dives into the latest findings attached to the industry and the consumers utilizing Alternative Financial Services products. Uncover new data on payment behavior, credit utilization and quality, and consumer stability for those individuals using products like short-term loans, pawn shops, payday loans, rent-to-own and beyond.

Discover how traditional lenders can benefit from these data insights, as well as what it reveals about subprime consumers.

It's that time of year; the industry's annual checkup, and we're excited to share insights that will provide a better view of the consumers you serve.

For five years in a row, Clarity's Alternative Financial Services Lending Trends Report has been the go-to resource for those seeking insights into non-prime borrower behavior, alternative credit data, industry trends in the alternative financial services market, and more.

In this Report, we analyzed:

• Online lending volume and product mix market trends
• Single pay and online installment loan performance
• COVID-19 and Loan Accommodations *NEW*
• Changes in loan characteristics
• And so much more

Unpack AFS Q2 Trends: Inquiry volumes slow and delinquency rates drop.