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Provenir names Frode Berg as general manager for Emea

Provenir, a global leader in risk decisioning and data analytics software, welcomes Frode Berg as the new General Manager for EMEA.

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Cheese launches digital banking platform for Asian communities

Cheese, a US digital banking platform targeting Asian communities, has launched with a pledge to donate $100,000 to nonprofits and community service programmes in support of Asian neighbourhoods and businesses hit by violence and economic hardship during the pandemic.

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Experian and FinScore to raise financial inclusion in the Philippines via alternative credit scoring

Experian, the world leader in information services, has partnered with FinScore, the pioneer in delivering telco data credit scoring to the unbanked and underbanked populations in the Philippines.

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Levine Leichtman Capital Partners takes majority stake in Creditinfo

Creditinfo Group, the leading global credit information and decision analytics provider, today announces that the private equity firm, Levine Leichtman Capital Partners (LLCP) has become its new majority shareholder.

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ING invests in credit scoring startup Flowcast

ING Ventures is investing an additional $3 million into Flowcast, a fintech startup that applies AI to the credit and collection process for non-performing loans.

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Bank Islam works with Experian and Mambu to build new digital bank

Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad (“Bank Islam”) is charging ahead as a value-based intermediary to create a platform-based solution so more people can have access to Shariah-compliant products which are based on risk-sharing and fairness.

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Fintern taps AI and Open Banking to enter consumer loans market

Fintern, a UK-based fintech startup, is aiming to shake up the market for low-value consumers loans with the launch of credit technology that bypasses credit scores in making lending decisions, focusing instead on affordability.

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Ant tussles with Beijing on sharing customer data - FT

Ant Group is resisting pressure from China's government to hand over more customer data to the country's central bank, according to the Financial Times.

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Stori raises $32.5m to bring credit cards to Mexico's middle class

Mexican fintech Stori has raised $32.5 million in a Series B funding round to bring credit cards to the country's middles class.

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Varo Bank unveils credit building card programme

Varo Bank, the first all-digital nationally chartered bank in the US, today introduced the Varo Believe Program, an innovative credit building product that includes a Visa credit card and credit monitoring.

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Fintechs Blue Motor Finance and Credit Kudos partner for Open Banking insights

Fintech lender, Blue, has announced a new partnership with challenger credit reference agency and Open Banking provider, Credit Kudos, to extend its services to even more customers.

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Petal gets $125m debt facility

Petal, a new kind of credit card company created to help people build credit and spend responsibly, today announced that it has closed a new committed debt facility –totaling more than $125 million– that will enable the company to expand and support the fast-growing Petal credit card program.

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Nationwide launches startup challenge to tackle poverty premium

Nationwide Building Society has launched a start-up challenge, calling for ideas to help tackle the so-called poverty premium, which sees poor people pay more for essential services.

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Northern Hills Federal Credit Union selects Scienaptic’s credit decisioning platform

AI-powered credit decision platform provider Scienaptic AI announced the deployment of its platform at Northern Hills Federal Credit Union.

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Financial health startup SeedFi raises $65m

SeedFi, a startup promising to help Americans build their credit and savings, has raised $15 million in equity and $50 million in debt.

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ANZ NZ taps Bud for Open Banking implementation

New Zealand's biggest bank, ANZ NZ will utilise Open Banking technology from the UK's Bud to improve the loan approval process for business customers.

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Tinkoff applies encryption tech from oneFactor to protect client data in AI credit scoring module

Tinkoff, one of Europe’s largest and most innovative digital banks, has began using an AI-powered predictive analytics tools, based on combined data from multiple sources, including telecom operators, Russia’s largest credit bureau and Tinkoff itself.

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Envestnet | Yodlee rolls out credit decisioning tech to Australia and New Zealand

Envestnet | Yodlee (NYSE: ENV), a leading data aggregation and data analytics platform for digital financial services, today announced the launch of its Australia and New Zealand-specific responsible lending product, Envestnet | Yodlee Credit Accelerator.

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Vanquis to refer declined credit card applicants to credit score builder Loqbox

UK credit card provider, Vanquis, part of the Provident Financial Group, will now refer applicants that they can’t immediately offer a credit card to, to credit builder LOQBOX, giving consumers the best chance to build a credit score and eventually be able to access credit.

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Atom signs Open Banking deal with Plaid

Atom Bank has signed a deal with Plaid to introduce Open Banking and payment initiation services to small business customers.