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Our mission is to use our unique blend of knowledge and expertise to make credit risk information purchasing frictionless, less time-consuming, and fully transparent.

Article February 2025

What is data benchmarking (and why does it matter)?

Understand the critical role of data benchmarking in ensuring quality and pricing transparency for credit risk assessments, enabling organisations to achieve significant cost savings and negotiate better deals by comparing their current data against industry standards and peer performance metrics.

PurplePatch
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Article February 2025

The Hidden Costs of Ignoring Credit Data Benchmarking

Unlock significant savings and enhance your competitive edge by embracing credit data benchmarking to optimise costs, address data gaps, and make informed decisions that propel your business forward in the ever-evolving financial services landscape.

Nick Green
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Article February 2025

Ready to renegotiate your credit bureau contract ? Read this first

Ensure your credit bureau data purchasing process is efficient and cost-effective by streamlining internal communications, leveraging benchmarking data for fair pricing, negotiating flexible contracts, and optimising contract terms to enhance decision-making and risk management.

Nick Green
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Article February 2025

Multi-bureau: The future of credit information?

Embrace a multi-bureau credit data strategy to enhance decision-making accuracy, improve financial inclusion, and leverage competitive pricing by effectively negotiating rates and optimising data usage without incurring excessive costs.

Nick Green
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Article February 2025

Credit Data Negotiations: How to get the best prices mid-contract

Optimise your credit data negotiations by embracing transparency and leveraging data benchmarking to attain competitive pricing and flexible contracts, ultimately enabling you to pass cost savings on to consumers while enhancing your organisation's financial flexibility and market position.

Nick Green
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Article February 2025

Affordability data in the new digital-first world

Adapt to the digital-first landscape by leveraging Open Banking and enhanced data sources to improve affordability assessments, renegotiate data contracts, and ensure competitive pricing, ultimately supporting fair lending practices and protecting vulnerable consumers in the evolving financial services market.

Nick Green
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Article February 2025

Maximising AI risk model performance with multi-bureau data

Maximise your AI risk model performance and optimise costs by adopting a multi-bureau data strategy that enhances insights, improves accuracy, and supports efficient decision-making through effective benchmarking, a waterfall approach, and strategic negotiation practices.

Nick Green
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Article February 2025

Overcoming bureau lock-in and leveraging multiple data feeds

Overcome bureau lock-in and enhance credit decision-making by adopting a multi-bureau strategy that diversifies data sources, improves risk assessment accuracy, reduces costs, and enables agile responses to changing market dynamics through systematic data gap analysis and strategic partnerships with multiple data providers.

Nick Frazer
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Article February 2025

Why lenders need more than rate negotiations for credit data contracts

To enhance your competitive edge and operational efficiency, lenders must focus on more than just rate negotiations for credit data contracts by prioritising flexibility, technological adaptability, and strategic partnerships, ensuring that contracts align with evolving market demands and consumer needs.

Nick Frazer
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Article February 2025

Insights from 30 years in credit data

Leverage decades of credit data expertise to navigate the evolving landscape by embracing multi-bureau strategies, maintaining flexibility in contracts, and engaging expert partners for impartial benchmarking—ultimately enhancing risk assessments, optimising costs, and driving competitive advantage.

Nick Frazer
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Article February 2025

5 lessons from hundreds of data benchmarking exercises

Leverage insights from extensive data benchmarking exercises to reduce credit bureau costs and enhance data quality by focusing on flexibility, questioning additional fees, understanding the full range of options, and challenging the status quo in negotiations—ultimately ensuring you secure the best possible terms for your credit data contracts.

Nick Frazer
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Article February 2025

What waterfall of data and Bureaux should you use?

To optimise credit risk assessments and manage data quality effectively, lenders should adopt a multi-bureau strategy that leverages additional data feeds, conduct retros to identify scoring gaps, and utilise data benchmarking to secure competitive pricing and flexible contract terms, ultimately enhancing decision-making while reducing costs

Nick Frazer
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Article February 2025

Futureproof your credit data contracts: four ways to gain flexibility

Futureproof your credit data contracts by leveraging benchmarking to secure competitive pricing, comparing commercial terms across providers, exploring available options for flexibility, and negotiating limits on RPI increases, all while ensuring that your agreements align with operational needs and market dynamics.

Nick Frazer
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Article February 2025

The benefits and opportunities of adopting a multi-bureau strategy

Discover the advantages of adopting a multi-bureau approach in credit risk assessments, including enhanced data quality, competitive pricing, and greater flexibility, while addressing common misconceptions that hinder credit providers from switching and optimising their data strategies.

Nick Frazer
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Article February 2025

Making the move from tactical to strategic pricing negotiations

Learn how to transition from tactical to strategic pricing negotiations in bureau contracts by employing a structured framework that emphasises benchmarking, evidence-based insights, and competitor analysis to maximise cost savings and secure more favorable terms over multi-year agreements.

Nick Frazer
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