Catch up on demand to see how direct-to-source verification is changing referencing for good.
AI tools are making fraudulent documents easier to produce and harder to catch through manual review. Goodlord referencing data shows fraud-related flags have risen 78% year-on-year, with some areas of the UK seeing significantly higher levels of suspicious activity than others.
What you will learn:
- The fraud landscape: how fraud, AI-generated document manipulation, and rising compliance pressure are reshaping referencing, backed by the data.
- Direct verification, the new normal: why connecting straight to a tenant's bank, payroll provider, or HMRC is replacing documents as the default standard.
- Stronger verification, better tenancies: the link between verification quality and tenancy outcomes, and what changed on 1 July 2026 as Trusted Sources became available to verify tenants' income.
- The impact on claims, landlords, and your team: what this means for your claims process, the confidence you can offer landlords, and what your team needs to do to be ready.
Oli Sherlock
Managing Director of Insurance at Goodlord
Tom Goodman
Managing Director of B2B at Goodlord
Nicola Harding
Head of Referencing at Goodlord