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Access the information you need to stay competitive. Experian offers white papers on a range of issues from fraud and credit risk models to data quality management. To download a white paper, you'll be asked to provide contact information. After completion of the registration form, you'll be able to access any of the white papers listed below.

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    Automotive solutions

AutoCheck Score does a number on traditional vehicle history reports
Still a bumpy road for auto financing
Best Practices Auto 2009
Certified pre-owned: The ripple effect in the automotive industry
Driving customer loyalty: moving from wishes to actions

    Credit solutions

B2B
Small Business Risk Indicators White Papers
Capitalizing on the Small Business Market
Commercial fraud: the tip of the iceberg
Identifying small business fraud – Not seeing the whole picture can hurt your bottom line
Predicting future payment behavior with event-based monitoring
Small business owners and credit evaluation
Solving the mystery of credit scoring models
The risk of not managing risk
The small-business owner- an in-depth B2B marketing study of owners of multiple small businesses

Fraud prevention
An integrated approach to the world of identity risk management
Best practices for preventing fraud losses and protecting customers from identity theft
Bust-out fraud – Knowing what to look for can safeguard the bottom line
Data sharing across industries: a valuable new strategy for stopping fraud in its tracks
Focus on the facts – Why knowledge-base authentication is an essential tool
Never pay fraud – Detecting never payment through a combined credit and fraud risk approach
New strategies for preventing online credit card fraud

Decisioning and scoring
A new breed of strategic risk models
Complexities of developing quality credit attributes
Consumer vs. Commercial Scores
Delivering profitability through Basel II compliance
Predicting risk: the relationship between business and consumer scores
Scoring and collections
Strategy management systems for collections
VantageScore – Characteristic level processing
VantageScore – Credit Scoring Stability in a Changing Risk Environment
VantageScore – Segmentation for credit-based delinquency models
VantageScore – Tri-credit reporting company modeling data design

Recent studies
Collection AdvantageSM leads to enhanced performance and profitability
Consumer payment behavior to telecommunications, energy and cable grantors
Hurricane Katrina: Impact on outstanding payables to suppliers

    Marketing solutions

B2B
Direct Marketing Success in Today's Economy – Leverage automated predictive analytics to drive marketing ROI
The value of using business-to-business list compiler databases
How data enhancement can improve your B2B Customer Relationship Management program
How to build your company's B2B database

Customer acquisition and insight
Advanced contact strategies for multichannel merchants
Building a bridge for fundraisers
Building profitable strategies using marketing information and analytics – a new paradigm
icon Harnessing the power of consumer data
Micromarketing to Microbusiness Owners — Experian hits the target

Data management
Customer-centricity and Customer Data Integration
Housefile Refresh: Managing an Efficient Database
Measuring the strategic value of Customer Data Integration
Thirty days to Customer Data Integration