Posts Tagged ‘ economic data ’

UK Consumer Prices: May 2013 Release

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) annual inflation rate showed an unexpected and marked fall in April to 2.4%, after six consecutive months in a tight range of 2.7% to 2.8%.[ READ MORE ]

Weekly Labour Market Round-up: May 2013

The run of healthy labour market data, defying virtual stagnation in GDP and public sector job cuts in the past year, stalled in early 2013. The combination of job losses and extremely weak earnings growth will keep household incomes under pressure. However, conditions should improve later this year, buoyed by a pick up in the global backdrop, easing inflation and credit conditions.[ READ MORE ]

Weekly UK Housing Market Update: May 2013

House price growth is now gradually gaining some momentum. In contrast to our earlier view of a flat housing market in 2013, we now expect some improvement in activity and muted rise in house prices in the year as the government’s Funding for Lending and Help to Buy schemes begin to have an impact on the market.[ READ MORE ]

Medium-sized firms increase resilience

Business leaders, economic watchers and – indeed – anyone with an interest in our nation’s finances will have found some relief in recent GDP data indicating that the UK had avoided falling into another recession.[ READ MORE ]

Real-time electronic validation benefits more than 50,000 residents and helps ease local authority overheads

First-hand local authority case study outlining the successful implementation of our Authenticate solution.[ READ MORE ]

Credit card fraud continues to rise

Card fraud continues to steadily rise - for more information, in-depth analysis and emerging trends, download the latest copy of our Fraud Report. [ READ MORE ]

Current account fraud falls as mortgage fraud rises for sixth successive year

Fraud figures predicted to rise throughout 2013.[ READ MORE ]

Regional Round-up : March 2013

A snapshot of key official and Experian regional data released this month.[ READ MORE ]

Managing the regulators in a volatile market

Daniel Almenara is a Client Consulting Director with Experian's Global Consulting Practice. He puts financial institutions' escalating pressure, new challenges and increased scrutiny under the spotlight. [ READ MORE ]

Collections benchmarking for banks and financial institutions

Vikas Kumar is a senior consultant in Decision Analytics' Global Consulting Practice. He outlines the critical rationale behind effective collections benchmarking. [ READ MORE ]