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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

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

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

Agile Collections Strategies Can Protect Loyalty in Tough Times

As economic victims swell the collections queue, do you have the tools you need to differentiate them and apply the correct treatments to different cohorts?

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

Debt Collection: Have We Learned the Lessons of the Last Crises?

While the current series of economic shocks may seem "unprecedented", there are clear lessons from past crises that should shape our collections strategies today

Even in a Crisis, the Best Collections Strategy Is to Avoid Collections

With as much as 50% of consumers experiencing financial difficulty soon, it's time to review your early and pre-collections strategy and processes

Canada Bankcard Industry Benchmarking Trends: Q2 2022 Update

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

Meeting Debt Collection Challenges Amid a Squeeze on Income

In order to deal with the rising cost of living and other challenges, anyone managing collections portfolios and effective debt recovery strategies needs these capabilities

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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