RELX PLC provides information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers across risk, scientific and medical research, legal, and events markets. Company news often centers on LexisNexis Risk Solutions, including fraud and identity analytics, insurance underwriting data, electronic health record access, provider data management, and reports based on digital transaction and industry survey data.
RELX updates also cover RX trade exhibitions, such as packaging industry events, and the company’s use of data sets, advanced analytics platforms, and AI-enabled tools in customer workflows. Recurring themes include partnerships, product integrations, cybercrime and fraud trend research, healthcare identity verification, and commercial insurance risk selection.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions (RELX) introduced Know Your Agent intelligence to help government agencies identify AI-agent interactions with digital systems. Available through ThreatMetrix and BehavioSec, the capabilities add AI-agent detection to existing identity, device, behavioral and transaction intelligence. Agencies can use that context to apply their own policies and risk controls while distinguishing human users, conventional bots and AI agents.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions (RELX) has launched Accurint One, an investigative technology platform built for U.S. criminal justice agencies. The platform combines the company's data, connected partner data and an agency's own information in one environment, with tools for searching, case collaboration, mapping and analyzing relationships.
AI-supported capabilities can summarize records and analyze relationship networks to identify connections. Authorized users remain responsible for interpreting the information and deciding what action to take; artificial intelligence supports rather than replaces their decisions.
LexisNexis Legal & Professional (RELX) launched the Intelligize+ AI Disclosure Management Suite to support teams preparing and reviewing corporate disclosures. The suite combines document uploads, repeatable research workflows, disclosure analysis and compliance checklists within the existing platform.
The company says the tools are designed to reduce manual research and review effort by analyzing working drafts alongside SEC filings and keeping findings connected to supporting evidence. Users can review suggested revisions and export analysis. Outputs remain preliminary, and reporting professionals retain responsibility for final determinations.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions (RELX) released its fifth annual True Cost of Fraud Study for SNAP agencies, finding that state and county Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program agencies now incur an average of $4.29 in total costs for every $1 in benefits lost to fraud, the highest level in the study’s five-year history.
Based on a survey of 150 SNAP and integrated eligibility system decision-makers, the research links higher payment accuracy to lower fraud-related costs and highlights mounting challenges from complex eligibility rules, information gaps, document manipulation, cross‑program fraud exposure and increasingly sophisticated, including AI‑enabled, schemes. Agencies with stronger access to trusted identity, income and eligibility data were markedly better at preventing fraud before benefits are issued.
Brightmine (RELX) is extending its expert-maintained compliance and reward intelligence into the products and services used by HR teams through HR technology and service providers.
The company cites research showing that 90% of organizations rely on HRIS or payroll providers for employment law tracking, while only 9% of HR professionals believe free tools can fully meet compliance needs. Partners can access Brightmine content via licensed content, platform access, embedded AI guidance and structured regulatory data. Brightmine, part of LexisNexis and RELX, supports coverage in more than 40 countries through over 45 in-house specialists and 100+ external experts, aiming to embed authoritative compliance guidance directly into HR workflows.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions (NYSE: RELX) released the 2026 U.S. Home Trends Report, analyzing by‑peril claims data for 2019‑2025. The study shows All Peril severity in 2025 reached a seven‑year high, up 25.9% versus 2024 and 93.2% versus 2019, while frequency fell 23.8% year over year.
Despite a 4.4% decline in All Peril loss cost from 2024, loss cost remained the third highest in seven years and 50.0% above 2019. The U.S. recorded 23 climate disasters causing at least $1 billion in damages in 2025, totaling $115 billion. January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires drove Fire and Lightning loss cost up 76.8%, with severity up 67.3%, and generated an estimated $61.2 billion in damages, the costliest wildfire in U.S. history.
Wind loss cost fell 50.4% and Hail loss cost decreased 38.4% from recent peaks, while several non‑weather perils showed declining frequency but rising long‑term severity, which the report links to inflationary and social‑inflation pressures.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions (NYSE:RELX) launched LexisNexis Current Carrier Commercial on June 16, 2026, a contributory data solution for U.S. commercial and multi-line insurers. It aggregates shared policy, driver and vehicle data to close information gaps in underwriting, rating and policy verification for business customers.
The platform uses proprietary contributed data, advanced content extraction and normalized records to support automated prefill, renewal monitoring, enhanced claims handling and industry-level insights. It organizes commercial auto information into four categories: policy details, policyholder information, vehicle details and driver details, aiming to improve efficiency, accuracy and cost control.
LexisNexis Risk Solutions (RELX) published a consumer study on life insurance application frictions and medical-data sharing preferences. Key findings: 79% cite required effort as the main abandonment reason; 63% cite time; 82% have PCP patient portal access and 91% used portals in the past 12 months.
The report identifies online patient portals as the preferred method to share medical records, driven by ease, completeness and speed, and highlights applicant thresholds for acceptable application timelines.
WEPACK 2026 (RELX) concluded April 24, 2026 in Shenzhen with record attendance and broad global participation.
The three-day expo reported 137,157 unique visitors (158,659 visits), including 13,598 overseas visitors (19,682 visits), representation from >130 countries, nearly 100 buyer delegations, eight concurrent exhibitions, and more than 30 high-level forums.
The event combined live production demonstrations, end-to-end packaging solutions, and a new WEPACK Carnival with five themed areas to blend business, culture, and engagement.
Cytora (RELX) and LexisNexis Risk Solutions announced a strategic relationship on April 23, 2026 to embed LexisNexis data and analytics into Cytora's AI-enabled underwriting platform. The integration begins with Commercial Data Prefill to auto-enrich U.S. commercial submissions, supporting submission triage, entity resolution, and faster risk decisioning.
The collaboration aims to reduce manual lookups, route risks for automated or manual underwriting, and apply proprietary linking technology across new business, claims, and renewals.