Identifying customer income accurately can be complex, we can help you address even more complex cases such as joint accounts, multiple salaries and adhoc salaries using open banking. Our income solution enables organisations to fully understand the composition of a consumer's income and helping you verify or estimate income more accurately leading to better credit decisions. When used alongside credit data, we can help you increase automated verification of declared income by 20%.¹
¹Equifax 2022
How It’s Used
Capture The Declared Income From The Customer
This could be Gross Annual or Net Monthly income.
Gather Actual Credit Transaction Payments To The Customer
Via our secure and low friction Open Banking connection journey.
Apply Income Verification Algorithms
To assess the number of salary and income streams, income frequency, change in
employer, employment type.
Due Diligence Of Income
Calculate observed income over the period in question and compare to the customer declared income.
Decide On An Appropriate Output Value
Assign the output value based on the type and amount of income evidenced over the desired period.
Delivery
Via an API and fed into your decision systems or viewed via our modular dashboard.
Support Regulatory Requirements
The regulations for providing secured or unsecured loans suggest that lenders must take reasonable steps to determine a customer's current income. Equifax's Automated Income Verification can help support you in meeting regulatory requirements by providing precise, granular and flexible, real-time income verification through our expert understanding and analysis of transaction data.
How will it benefit me and my customers?
More Accurate Income Estimation
Working alongside your own income solution or Automated Income Verification we can provide an evidenced estimate of income where a declared income cannot be verified. We can provide accurate estimates of a customer’s income with individual income components and a confidence ranking of the income estimated and includes factors such as recency, coverage, stability and variability.