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Canada Bankcard Industry: A Look Back at Q4 2025 Trends

FICO risk benchmarking data covering roughly 90% of card transactions in Canada reveals a market at an inflection point - improving delinquencies mask structural shifts in payment

Survey: What Makes a Great Customer Experience?

A new FICO survey on customer experience found that 9 in 10 people globally believe that customer experience is as important as a bank’s products

Bank Primacy: Survey Reveals Secrets to Customer Loyalty

FICO's global survey finds that 90% of customers have a primary bank provider, but over a third would switch to get a better offer or customer experience

Canada Bankcard Industry Benchmarking Trends: Q2 2025  

Credit card insights uncover developing financial pressures affecting many Canadians

Canada Bankcard Industry Benchmarking Trends: Q1 2025

Credit card data reveals many Canadians are struggling to pay off their monthly balances

Next Best Actions / Next Best Offers – Four Pointers to Success

Next Best Actions / Next Best Offers balance the customer's interests and needs with your organization's business objectives, using mathematical optimization

Determining the Next Best Action to Grow Customer Relationships

Next best action strategies and technology balance growth and risk for banks, while advancing customer relationships

Canadian Bankcards: Delinquencies on Monoline Cards Are Rising

FICO's Canadian Bankcards Industry Benchmarking Trends for Q2 2024 show monolines delinquencies have reached pre-COVID levels

The Perfect Credit Score: Understanding the 850 FICO Score

What do credit score high achievers have in common and what can we learn from the credit behavioral characteristics in these populations?

Rising Delinquencies in Canada Point to Need for Stress Testing

Canadian cards data for the second quarter of 2023 shows the need for lenders to project unexpected rapid shock to portfolios, staffing, and expenses

Canada Bankcard Industry Benchmarking Trends: Q4 2022 Update

Ready for a recession? An insider look at bankcard and consumer trends in Canada

In-depth look at the distribution of average U.S. FICO® Scores in 2022

The national average FICO Score did not go up for the first time in over a decade, a trend that’s seen at the city and state level across the nation

Canada Bankcard Industry Benchmarking Trends: Q2 2022 Update

Bank of Canada makes major rate hike and consumer inflation increases; low unemployment rate continues

Canada Bankcard Industry Benchmarking Trends: 2022 Q1 Update

Canada Sees Low Unemployment, But Rising Inflation – How Will This Affect Bankcard Usage?

Deep Dive into Distribution of the FICO® Score Across the US

Recent increase in the average FICO® Score is reflective, in part, of impacts that the pandemic has had on U.S. consumers’ credit behavior, credit report, and credit history.

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