Experian has unveiled a new contract with media giant Sky to help it refine its prospect marketing strategy and grow the size and quality of its client base.
Find out how, where and when you may be at risk from fraud. It’s a multi-million pound industry that could cost you dearly.
The Chancellor again faced a challenging background in presenting his Autumn Statement today as a stagnant economy over the past year shifted his deficit reduction strategy further off course. Missed targets meant that, as in last year’s Statement, the austerity programme has been extended to allow room for manoeuvre in boosting the flagging economy.
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Experian predicts there will be a dramatic increase in attempted mortgage fraud in the UK next year, bringing the number of people fraudulently trying to obtain home loans to the highest level since records began in 2009.
The government has now completed its plans to make the UK’s anti-money laundering (AML) regime more effective and proportionate. With the proposed changes expected to save larger professional services firms around £3 million a year, enhanced due diligence is clearly worth it.
Given modern businesses are working in an accelerated culture and increasingly virtual world, it is vital they are confident that they have the right measures in place to cut the risk of money laundering.
The cost savings of online marketing over direct mail may not be as big as you think.
Acquisition budgets have been migrating online for a number of years now. Double digit year on year growth, relatively cheap media and real time optimisation have made the transition somewhat inevitable. Certainly I was one of those quick to prophesise the demise of offline channels like direct mail.
Despite recent coverage of the US elections virtually eclipsing the issue of online gaming, moves towards it were quietly progressing behind the scenes.
Nevada, closely followed by Delaware, have now approved the nation’s first interactive gambling licenses, while in August the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of New York determined that Hold ‘em Poker was not actually ‘gambling’, instead ruling it a game of skill and expertise.
The financial services sector currently shoulders the £3.5 billion lion’s share of the UK’s annual £75 billion estimated fraud losses.
Mortgages, currents accounts, loans and savings are all vulnerable – but evidence suggests pensions are equally at risk.
While there are no precise figures for Britain’s pensions industry as a whole, annual public sector pension fraud alone is estimated to cost nearly £17 million by the National Fraud Authority.
European businesses risk losing billions of Euros as a result of failure to tackle simple payment errors according to a new Experian report.
The switch to a single SEPA payment system – designed to simplify and streamline processing operations for domestic and international payments – will expose out-of-date account data and other errors that were previously overcome through a patchwork of locally implemented fixes.
