Andrea Schmalzer is an analytical consultant in the Commercial Data Sciences team here at Experian, and she just completed a study of the mining industry titled "Managing volatility: the unique credit risks of the mining industry", so we did a...

Here at Experian, we work with many clients whose customers and suppliers operate all over the world, and one of the biggest challenges for many is being able to detect financial duress by monitoring companies’ whose headquarters are outside of...

Experian has just released the Q3 2017 Experian/Moody's Analytics Main Street report and the overall outlook for small-business credit is stable. The report states outstanding balances on small-business credit declined slightly in the third...

Within the span of two weeks, two states in the Southeast - Texas and Florida, have been devastated by two category 5 hurricanes. It has been over a decade since the United States last fell victim to another category 5 hurricane, Katrina, which...

ADP Jobs Report Highlights:

The U.S. economy added 135,000 jobs from August to September according to the ADP National Employment Report.  According to the report, the small business sector lost roughly 7,000 jobs with smaller firms with 1-19...

When a small business is damaged by a natural disaster — be it a hurricane, flood, earthquake or tornado — recovery presents its own set of hazards. There is, of course, the immediate cost of lost business. There are both short- and long-term...

As the recovery gets under way, it will take months to assess the full economic impact of the unprecedented devastation brought to South Texas by Hurricane Harvey. Thousands of residents have been displaced, and as food and shelter are...

ADP Jobs Report Highlights:

The U.S. economy added 237,000 jobs from July to August according to the ADP National Employment Report.  According to the report, small businesses added around 48,000 jobs with firms with fewer than 19 employees...

Small business credit conditions continued to improve in the second quarter according to the latest Experian/Moody's Analytics Main Street Report. In our upcoming Business Chat | Live, taking place on Tuesday, September 5th at 10:00 (Pacific),...

According to the Kauffman Foundation Index of Startup Activity, only 0.31 percent of U.S. adults ever starts a business. That's 310 people out of every 100,000. That's a shocking statistic for a country of 325 million people. In fact, new...