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Finastra sells Enhancement Services business to Sigma Loyalty Group

Finastra has struck a definitive deal to sell off its Canadian-based Enhancement Services business to Sigma Loyalty Group. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.

18 June 2020

News/retail

Tandem’s Ricky Knox on changing psychologies towards credit amid Covid-19

Ricky Knox, CEO and founder of Tandem Bank reflects on Covid-19’s impact on customers financial health and gives FinextraTV his take on shifting attitudes towards credit, pre and post-pandemic.

18 June 2020

Company update/payments

Loans Warehouse chooses Credit Kudos as Open Banking provider

Loans Warehouse has selected award-winning fintech Credit Kudos as its Open Banking provider, to enable lenders to safely and responsibly increase lending activity.

18 June 2020

News/retail

Credit Sesame buys Canadian challenger bank Stack

American fintech Credit Sesame is moving into the Canadian market through the acquisition of challenger bank Stack. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

16 June 2020

Company update/retail

Orix Credit and AdviceRobo collaborate on alternative credit scoring in Japan

ORIX Credit Corporation and Innovative Financial Risk Specialist AdviceRobo have announced that they have started to work together to explore the potential of innovative alternative credit scoring in ORIX card loan services.

10 June 2020

News/startups

MUFG invests in POS financing platform ChargeAfter

US multi-lender Point-of-Sale financing platform ChargeAfter has secured an investment from the venture capital arm of Japanese financial services giant MUFG.

10 June 2020

Company update/retail

Experian joins FDATA

Experian, the global information services company, has agreed to join FDATA in support of its Open Banking initiatives around the world.

09 June 2020

Company update/retail

PNC starts using OakNorth Covid-19 credit framework

OakNorth, the next-generation credit and monitoring platform, today announces the signing of a commercial agreement with PNC Bank (NYSE: PNC), one of the leading credit providers to middle market companies across the country.

03 June 2020

Company update/retail

Australia's Zip targets US after QuadPay acquisition

High-growth, US-based payment installment platform, QuadPay, has partnered with Australian publicly traded buy now, pay later (BNPL) pioneer, Zip Co (ASX:Z1P), to create a $1bn+ global payments company.

03 June 2020

Company update/retail

Redington to distribute Experian’s PowerCurve suite of products in India

Experian, one of India’s leading data, analytics and decisioning companies today announced a partnership with Redington, the largest IT software and products distributor in India.

27 May 2020

News/payments

Tencent rolls out credit scoring system - report

Tencent's WeChat Pay will start giving its 600 million users a credit rating, using an AI-based system to determine people's "trust" value, according to local press reports.

14 May 2020

Company update/retail

Freedom Finance debuts Open Banking-enabled Fusion Score

Freedom Finance, one of the UK’s leading lending platforms, has today announced the launch of Fusion Score, the first open banking enabled score that creates a single metric that interprets a customer’s eligibility based on both credit and transactional data, a first for the lending industry.

04 May 2020

News/startups

Credit Kudos scoops £5 million in Series A funding

Challenger credit bureau Credit Kudos has raised £5 million in a funding round led by Albion VC.

15 April 2020

Company update/retail

Customers Bank enlists OakNorth to boost credit monitoring and portfolio management

OakNorth, the next-generation credit and monitoring platform, today announces the signing of a commercial agreement with Customers Bank (NYSE: CUBI), which is a full-service bank that provides a range of banking and lending services to small and medium-sized businesses, professionals, individuals and families.

08 April 2020

Company update/retail

Credit Hero gets a digital boost in lending with Salt Edge

Credit Hero, an online lender from Hong Kong, teamed up with Salt Edge, a leader in offering open banking solutions, to access borrowers’ bank data at digital speed and eliminate the traditional paper chase.

08 April 2020

News/payments

Koodoo collaborates with lenders on mortgage holiday guide

Mortgage technology startup Koodoo has collaborated with major lenders to launch a purpose-built Website and technology toolkit offering consumer guidance on payment holidays during the Covid-19 outbreak.

31 March 2020

Company update/Credit referencing and support

Indonesian bureau KBIJ introduces consumer credit scoring tech

PT. Kredit Biro Indonesia Jaya (“KBIJ”) as a private credit bureau licenced by Indonesia Monetary Authority (OJK) is pleased to announce the introduction of “SKORKU” to the Indonesia financial market, making it the first Indonesia consumer score developed using real credit data (credit bureau data) and state of the art machine learning algorithm.

31 March 2020

Company update/retail

Aire opens up credit insight service to help lenders keep pace with financial uncertainty

Aire, the credit insight service, today announced that it is offering free access to its range of real-time credit information services for a period of three months, to help lenders identify and engage with struggling consumers during the unfolding Coronavirus crisis.

26 March 2020

Company update/startups