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Ant Financial has denied using Equifax's intellectual property or trade secrets in the development of its credit rating product, blasting a Wall Street Journal report on the subject.
13 September 2018
The UK's competition watchdog has referred Experian's proposed takeover of Clearscore for an independent investigation after the vendors failed to address concerns raised during a preliminary probe.
31 July 2018
Canadian startup Citrusexchange has unveiled a blockchain-based platform for supply chain and invoice financing.
10 July 2018
As they seek to steer a course through the new fintech environment, financial services firms must beware the risks to their business models of both being too passive and too gung-ho in their embrace of new technologies, says a European Banking Authority report.
03 July 2018
Welcome to Finextra's live coverage from the Linedata Exchange Europe 2018. The theme for this year's event centres around transformation and how digital, operational and industry-wide transformation can be leveraged to deliver growth.
19 June 2018
UK banks will be forced to develop develop alerts for customers who may be about to slip into the red as well as a range of prompts and PFM tools that make it easier to keep on top of finances following a review by the Financial Conduct Authority into the high-cost credit market.
31 May 2018
The largest credit bureau in Central and Eastern Europe, Polish Credit Office, is teaming up with local DLT specialist Billon to move millions of credit histories to the blockchain.
14 May 2018
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) is looking to bring lending into the digital age, allowing banks to forgo traditional credit checks on some personal loans in favour of big data analysis.
11 May 2018
Following a pilot in Kenya, Mastercard and consumer goods giant Unilever are expanding a digital lending initiative designed to help micro-entrepreneurs in developing countries get credit.
01 May 2018
India's Yes Bank has moved to smooth out its digital lending processes through an API-based integration with Paisabazaar, a marketplace for loans and cards.
24 April 2018
Private equity firm Silver Lake is buying a $500 million stake in personal finance technology outfit Credit Karma from existing investors.
29 March 2018
Challenger bank TSB has unveiled its latest weapon in the fight against Britain's high street giants, a business marketplace where SMEs can compare financing options from a host of lenders in one place.
28 March 2018
Monzo and Starling Bank have joined a raft of incumbents to integrate with rent recognition platform CreditLadder to help tenants to improve their credit history with rating agencies.
Kraft, a new Norwegian bank targeting customers rejected by other lenders, has selected Tieto's AI technology for processing loan applications.
23 March 2018
Equifax has identified another 2.4 million US victims of the massive data breach the credit referencing firm suffered last year.
02 March 2018
Australia has moved one step closer to implementing an Open Banking regime with the publication of a final Government report into the issue, accompanied by draft legislation to mandate comprehensive credit reporting.
09 February 2018
Chinese search engine Baidu is looking to raise up to $2 billion to take on fellow tech behemoths Alibaba and Tencent in the financial services sector, according to Reuters.
25 January 2018
Tryb, an Asian firm looking to buy and develop local fintech startups in order to create a "financial infrastructure platform for Asean", has raised US$30 million from the Makara Innovation Fund.
Berlin-based online SME lending platform Spotcap is diversifying its business model, offering its technology to other companies, beginning with Austrian banking group Bawag.
22 January 2018
Petal, a US credit card startup that is ditching traditional credit scores in an effort to sign up young people and the underbanked, has raised $13 million in a Series A funding round led by Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures.
10 January 2018
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