The likelihood of fraud increases with each successive simultaneous loan a borrower is approved for.1 But when borrowers apply to a multitude of lenders quickly, before traditional credit data can react, lenders are left with a gap in visibility into how — and why — consumers are seeking and obtaining credit.
Legitimate applicants who rapidly solicit pricing from various lenders to find the best rates.
Applicants with poor credit who rapidly apply for loans they intend to, but won’t be able to, repay.
First-party fraudsters who rapidly apply for loans with no intention of repaying.
See loan shopping behaviors for consumers and small businesses, collected from financial organizations across the network
A combination of GLBA and FCRA insights indicate lending velocity for a specific applicant at different periods of time – from the last 90 days to the last hour
1. Wall Street Journal, “Borrow or Fraudster? Online Lenders Scramble to Tell the Dierence.” 2016, https://www.wsj.com/articles/borrower-or-fraudster-online-lenders-scramble-to-tell-the-difference-1477580637