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UK Retail Sales: May 2013 Release

May 22nd, 2013
Posted in Credit Risk Management . Identity and Fraud . Payments and Collections

Peter Gutmann discusses recent trends in the UK's Retail sector.[ READ MORE ]

UK Consumer Prices: May 2013 Release

May 21st, 2013
Posted in Credit Risk Management . Identity and Fraud . Payments and Collections

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

May 20th, 2013
Posted in Credit Risk Management . Payments and Collections

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

May 20th, 2013
Posted in Credit Risk Management . Payments and Collections

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 ]

Credit card fraud continues to rise

April 26th, 2013
Posted in Identity and Fraud

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 ]

UK Labour Market Statistics – April release

April 22nd, 2013
Posted in Credit Risk Management . Identity and Fraud . Payments and Collections

The latest labour market data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that the shine is finally coming off the UK labour market in line with our expectations.[ READ MORE ]

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

April 10th, 2013
Posted in Identity and Fraud . Payments and Collections

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

Regional Round-up : March 2013

April 2nd, 2013
Posted in Credit Risk Management . Identity and Fraud . Payments and Collections

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

Managing the regulators in a volatile market

March 12th, 2013
Posted in Credit Risk Management . Identity and Fraud . Payments and Collections

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

March 6th, 2013
Posted in Identity and Fraud . Payments and Collections

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

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