LexisNexis ThreatMetrix

LexisNexis ThreatMetrix provides automated risk management and fraud detection through digital identity intelligence, sitting within LexisNexis Risk Solutions alongside the Accurint products for collections, government, healthcare, insurance and law enforcement.

The Digital Identity Network is the asset ThreatMetrix is built on and network scale is the decisive factor in this category. Recognising that a device, an email address or a behavioural pattern has been used fraudulently elsewhere requires having seen it elsewhere, and that visibility comes from processing transactions across many institutions and geographies rather than from better modelling.

The LexisNexis position adds something few fraud vendors have, which is decades of identity and public records data. A digital signal saying this device is suspicious is useful; combining it with authoritative records about whether the identity being claimed exists and matches is a different order of confidence.

The breadth of the Accurint family across collections, government, healthcare, insurance and law enforcement indicates how far that data reaches beyond financial services. The privacy consideration is real and worth acknowledging: a network deriving its value from observing behaviour across institutions is powerful precisely because of that visibility, and buyers in regulated markets weigh the data protection position carefully. Material is published in English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Japanese. Rates are not published.