Product

Affordability Report

Provides a clearer, more detailed picture of a customer’s income and affordability to help prevent unaffordable lending.

Support responsible lending through smarter decision making

As a pioneer in affordability solutions and a track record of industry firsts, TransUnion continues to innovate new bureau-based and analytical affordability tools that enable robust credit risk analysis that can help ensure both responsible customer outcomes and a friction-right customer journey.

The driving force for Affordability Report is to help lenders build a more detailed, clearer picture of a customer’s income and affordability and help prevent unaffordable consumer lending. Affordability Report can help businesses manage portfolio risk and optimise performance and budgets through automation and quicker, more informed decisions to support new lending. This approach can work towards strengthening brand, trust and existing and new customer relationships.

With increased regulatory attention, indebtedness levels remaining high and consumers suffering an unprecedented squeeze on disposable income, a robust affordability assessment is a crucial aspect of credit risk management and helps to spot consumers who are susceptible to future financial vulnerability.

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Product highlights

Designed for new consumer lending applications and the optimised management of customer accounts during their lifecycle, Affordability Report now features new trended attributes and scores. It can be implemented in partnership with either our trended data solution TrueVision and Bud Open Banking solutions* to offer a complete creditworthiness solution or used as a standalone platform. 

Streamline your customer journeys

Verify consumer incomes without disrupting the customer journey.

Indentify financial vulnerabilities

Identify exisiting affordability and indebtedness challenges.

Make more informed decisions

Accurately assess affordable monthly payment amounts for your customers.

Use income trends insights

Understand trends in a consumer's income and how that may impact their affordability position.

Harness valuable BNPL insights

Get additional insights based on a customers buy now pay later activity.

Leverage trended data variables

A 12-month view across key attributes offers insights into an individual's future potential affordability behaviour.

 

*Bud is the trading name of Bud Financial Limited who is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under registration number 793327 as a regulated Payment Services and Open Banking provider.

Enhancing Affordability Report to improve customer insights

Trended Affordability is the latest product advancement in the trended data space and is a UK market first. The big data solution enables a new approach to assessing the creditworthiness and affordability of existing and potential customers.

We now include an option for clients to integrate Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) data into affordability assessments (via an API), helping you enhance transparency and make more informed affordability decisions based on real understandings — ensuring consumer fairness each step of the way.

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If you’re a consumer with questions or issues related to your personal credit report, drivers history report, disputes, fraud, identity theft, credit report freeze or credit monitoring services, please visit our Customer Enquiries page for assistance.

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