A gamechanger in NewDay’s battle against fraud

Overview: The Experian advantage: A gamechanger in NewDay’s battle against fraud

Fighting fraud with data analytics

Financial fraud is a multi-million-pound industry. In 2022, losses exceeded £1 billion in the UK alone.

Through our CrossCore machine learning platform, we helped leading UK credit provider, NewDay to fight fraud together. 

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Challenge overview

Combatting higher fraud applications and a friction-heavy onboarding process

NewDay’s highly scalable digital platform allows it to continually innovate and develop products that meet their customers’ changing needs. However, in 2021 as it grew its customer base, it faced an increasing number of fraudulent applicants. To stop the fraudsters, NewDay added more application screening processes to its already stringent system. However, these additional checks delayed the application process for genuine applicants, generated more applicant referrals to be manually checked and lead to increased operational costs.

Challenges
  • Increasing customer base led to increasing number of fraudulent applications
  • Increased customer friction in onboarding
  • Increased operational costs
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Company Bio:

NewDay is a leading provider of unsecured consumer credit in the UK providing 4.6 million customers with access to credit. The firm is a broad-spectrum lender with a specialism in delivering services to near-prime customers who may not have easy access to credit from mainstream lenders.

Its credit product offering includes physical and digital cards – including Bip, the UK’s first digital only credit card – and Newpay, a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) service offering instalment finance and revolving credit that is fully regulated.

Founded: 2000
Industry: Financial services
Featured brands: Newpay, Bip
Our key drivers for our fraud strategy were stronger fraud detection and lower referral rates, while still creating a positive onboarding experience for new customers.
Danny Clark, Head of Fraud Prevention at NewDay

Solution overview

Data analytics and real-time fraud detection

Through CrossCore, NewDay was able to identify and consolidate a wide range of risk alerts into a single assessment. The results were exceptional. Clark reported: “As a result of that deployment, we’ve seen an 59% reduction in our application fraud losses.” For the first time, NewDay could leverage multiple data sources in one platform and use advanced analytics to make real-time risk decisions. In fact, it now only takes eight seconds to detect fraud, with further optimisations planned to reduce this to just six seconds.

NewDay has entered a new era of data-driven fraud defence. Faster and more accurate fraud detection, a reduction in time and costs to investigate fraud and a more seamless customer journey.
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Results
  • 59% reduction in application fraud losses
  • 30-40% decrease in applicant referrals
  • 8 second fraud response time
Solutions
The Experian advantage: A gamechanger in NewDay’s battle against fraud

The Experian advantage: A gamechanger in NewDay’s battle against fraud

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