Welcome to the Experian Thought Leadership Hub

As interest rates soften, pent-up demand stands poised to surge once affordability shifts. Given this environment, it's imperative to reassess your lending strategy to recognize new avenues for growth. We've examined the first-time homebuyer segment to identify credit-qualified prospects and offer insights on potential opportunity areas.

Download our white paper to deepen your understanding of first-time homebuyers and learn best practices for how to successfully identify and engage this audience to help your business drive more sustainable growth.

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

As we prepare for the year ahead, it's crucial to understand the trends of 2023 that shaped our current economic environment. Download the 2023 Experian Edge Economic Chartbook, where you can find critical insights into the labor market, inflation, banking stress, delinquencies and more.

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

New insights from Cornerstone Advisors dive into the need for financial institutions to leverage automation, expanded data and machine learning in order to be successful amid economic uncertainty.