Please note migration kick off for Groups 1 and 2 have commenced and will be closed on the end dates listed in the schedule below.

 

Additional products and groups will be added to the schedule below once client migration dates are available for those groups.

 

 

 

Experian will be migrating STS file transfers to the cloud beginning February 2025

You have been identified as a point of contact for STS File transfers, this notification requires your attention.

 

What is happening? 

As Experian continues to move traffic to our cloud environments, it is necessary for clients to make changes to continue to transmit files to and from Experian. This migration will begin in February 2025 and will be performed on a staggered schedule based on product category as below.

 

What system(s) are impacted and when?

 STS File Transfers for batch products will be migrated to Experian Cloud per the migration schedule below:

 

EFT Migration Schedule

 

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5
(Data Furnishers)

Client Migration Kick Off Date

Feb 20 2025

May 1 2025

To be determined

Jan 1 2026

To be determined

Client Migration End Date

May 30 2025

Oct 31 2025

To be determined

Mar 31 2026

To be determined

Products included

• Risk & Retention Triggers 
• Prospect Triggers 
• Mortgage Watch
• Collection Triggers                         

• Collection Advantage

• Account Review
• Prescreen
• Archive
• Prescreen of One
• Prequal
• Data Arc
• Pinpoint
• Ascend Marketing
• ADS Marketing
• ADS Analytics
• Ascend Sandbox
• Account Review Advantage
• Batch Credit Report
• FraudNet

• Commercial Portfolio Scoring, Commercial Fraud Scores & Archives
• Extracts- CRDB (Commercial Risk Database), USBD, CPD, AMS
• GDN (Global Data Network)
• Social Media

• Precise ID

• Data Furnishing Files

 

Note: A separate communication will be sent to data furnishers by March 2025. Additionally, files using STS for Decisioning solutions e.g. PCO, PCCM and PCSM will be migrated when the solution is migrated to the cloud (dates have been communicated separately).

 

If there are any products that are not included in the above table that are being transmitted via STS, please reach out to your Experian representative.

 

 

What action(s) do you need to take to get ready? 

Below are the steps you will need to take to migrate your connectivity to the cloud.

1.      STS NETWORK SET UP: 

  1. Based on the Product Group in the above migration schedule, you need to update your connectivity to the below Endpoints 
    1. HTTPS: https://data-eft.experian.com IP: 45.60.11.174. Port: 443
    2. SFTP: data-eft-sftp.experian.com 

IPs: 100.28.19.145, 3.220.50.26 and 50.17.175.232 Port: 22

Note: You will need to send files to existing URL until the STS Migration Kick off Date listed in the above schedule

 

  1. Update your firewall rules to allow bi-directional traffic from the TCP/IP address above

 

2.      FILE TRANSMISSION SET UP: 

  1. PGP ENCRYPTION (if applicable): For clients using STS with PGP encrypted files, a new PGP encryption key may need to be deployed. (Your Experian representative will provide you further details)

 

Note: There will be no change to your authentication credentials for accessing STS. In general, clients will not be required to make any changes to the file names to the files in scope for this migration. However, file naming changes may be required for Group 3 (Commercial Products)


When will the changes take effect? 

The migration will be staggered based on the Migration Kick off date outlined in the above EFT Migration Schedule. Above changes to migrate STS file transmissions to cloud must be completed by the EFT migration end date indicated in the above schedule.

 

Have questions? 

For questions regarding this notification, please contact your Experian Representative or eft_idsupport@experian.com