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Standard Bank partners Flutterwave

Standard Bank, Africa’s largest bank by assets, has partnered with Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company, to enhance digital payments experiences for its customers in Nigeria, Zambia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Mauritius, Cote D’Ivoire and Malawi. Flutterwave and Standard Bank are collaborating to build e-commerce, card issuing, payments, collections, USSD, lending, and buy-now-pay-later capabilities for millions of Africans.

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Saldo Finance gets ECB specialised banking license

Saldo Finance UAB, a subsidiary of Finnish Saldo Finance Plc, has been granted ECB’s specialised banking licence in Lithuania. Saldo Finance Plc foresees remarkable expansion of operations.

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Banorte rolls out Murex credit risk management platform

Murex, the global leader in trading, risk, and processing solutions for capital markets, is pleased to announce that Banorte has successfully implemented Murex’s flagship MX.3 platform for its credit risk management and XVA desk deployment.

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Bond Financial Technologies expands into embedded credit

Bond Financial Technologies, Inc., the leading enterprise-grade platform for embedded finance, announces the availability of its latest product, Bond Embedded Credit. Current and new customers can now build and launch personalized credit products with a single integration, including underwriting, risk management, servicing, and compliance.

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Cred doubles valuation to $4 billion

Indian credit card bill payment app Cred has raised $251 million in a Series E funding round, almost doubling its valuation to $4 billion in six months.

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TotallyMoney and Lendable forge API integration

TotallyMoney, the credit app to help customers move their money forwards, launches new API integration with loan and credit card platform, Lendable.

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CollateralEdge raises $3.5m in seed round

CollateralEdge, a Texas-based fintech company providing banks with a risk-mitigation tool to efficiently increase lending capacity without compromising credit quality, emerges from stealth mode with an oversubscribed $3.5M seed round.

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Identity decisioning platform Alloy moves into credit underwriting

Alloy, the recently named unicorn, has expanded its identity decisioning platform to include credit underwriting, with the intention of building comprehensive views of customers in line with their onboarding and transaction monitoring products.

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X1 rolls out smart credit card to 350,000-strong waitlist

X1, the challenger credit card for digital natives founded by former Twitter executives, is rolling out of private beta to a waitlist of 350,000 people.

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SoFi and Pagaya team up

Pagaya Technologies Ltd. (“Pagaya”), a financial technology company that enables financial institutions to expand access to more customers through its artificial intelligence network, today announced its new partnership with SoFi, the digital personal finance company.

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Lending Works taps Experian to enhance credit framework

Lending Works, the UK’s leading embedded lending platform, has today announced a new multi-year partnership with Experian, the global information services provider.

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Klarna introduces package of measures to rebuff BNPL critics

Klarna is repositioning its buy now, pay later product range in the UK in response to sustained criticism of its business practices, introducing the ability for consumers to pay in full at the checkout, stronger credit and affordability checks, clear checkout language, simplified T&Cs, improved complaints handling and removal of last remaining late fees.

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Wiserfunding partners CrediLinq.Ai on SME credit underwriting in Asia

London-based Wiserfunding, a leading provider of credit risk assessment for SME lenders, today announced a strategic partnership with CrediLinq.Ai, a Singapore-based, fully integrated AI credit platform, disrupting SME credit underwriting in Southeast Asia.

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Microlender Tala raises $145m to move into savings and crypto

Microlender to the underbanked Tala has raised $145 million in Series E financing to fund a host of new services, including crypto.

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Credit Kudos launches Open Banking credit score

Credit Kudos has launched Signal, an Open Banking and machine learning-based credit score that it says enables lenders to increase acceptance of previously declined customers and reduce defaults.

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Creditspring launches credit builder product to support near-prime borrowers across UK

Subscription loan provider, Creditspring, launches Step, a new credit builder product that helps members gradually improve their credit score without running the risk of incurring further debt.

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Cirralto upgrades core product Spenda

Following the commercial release of the Spenda Payment Suite in May 2021, this week, Cirralto released a major upgrade to the Spenda system.

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Pagaya names JPMorgan's Leslie Gillin chief growth officer

Pagaya Technologies Ltd. (“Pagaya”), a financial technology company that enables financial institutions to expand access to more customers through its partnerships and artificial intelligence network, today announced the appointment of Leslie Gillin, former President of Chase Co-Brand Cards, CMO of Citi's Global Consumer Bank and, most recently, CMO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., as its Chief Growth Officer.

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ADA Impacto founders win inaugural Women’s World Banking award

Women’s World Banking today announced Alexa Varsavsky, CEO and head of product, and Isabel Oriol, CMO and head of business development, at ADA Impacto, as the inaugural recipients of the Female Founder Award, launched this year as a new honor as part of its annual Fintech Innovation Challenge.

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First National Bank of Omaha launches BNPL offering for merchants

First National Bank of Omaha is joining the BNPL goldrush, launching a service which will allow merchant partners to offer their customers the option to make purchases and pay for them at a future date.