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News/startups
Fintern, a UK startup 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, has raised £32 million in equity and debt funding.
15 April 2021
Research/Credit referencing and support
14 April 2021 626 downloads
Company update/retail
Experian, the world’s leading data and information services company, partners up with Neonomics to enable faster, smarter insights, decision-making and greater access to finance for consumers and lenders, empowering both parties to ensure responsible lending
08 April 2021
UK-based buy now, pay later player Zilch is rolling out a 'tap and pay-over-time' feature that lets shoppers make in-store payments with a wave of their digital wallet, with the cost spread over a six week period.
Cred, a fast-growing Indian startup that allows users to pay their credit card bills and gives rewards in return, has hit a $2.2 billion valuation off the back of a $215 million Series D funding round led by Falcon Edge Capital.
07 April 2021
Company update/wholesale
Partnership between fintechs LendInvest and Credit Kudos will offer brokers and customers a seamless, more secure service, as well as enabling LendInvest to make more informed lending decisions through Open Banking insights.
01 April 2021
Company update/people
Prior to joining Fintern, Mark was a Partner at EY, where he specialised in Credit Analytics and led EY's Quantitative Advisory Services team of 200 quantitative analysts.
29 March 2021
Company update/payments
Equifax UK, the business and consumer insights expert, has signed an exclusive agreement with UK consumer fintech and payment card app Curve to deliver comprehensive verification and ID solutions to its new personal finance product, Curve Credit.
25 March 2021
TomoCredit, Inc., a new startup offering access to credit for millions without credit histories, today announced the launch of the TomoCredit Mastercard, a high limit offering that does not require FICO or soft or hard inquiries to apply.
18 March 2021
Provenir, a global leader in risk decisioning and data analytics software, welcomes Frode Berg as the new General Manager for EMEA.
11 March 2021
News/inclusion
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.
10 March 2021
Company update/inclusion
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.
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.
09 March 2021
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.
08 March 2021
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.
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.
News/regulation
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.
03 March 2021
Mexican fintech Stori has raised $32.5 million in a Series B funding round to bring credit cards to the country's middles class.
01 March 2021
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.
26 February 2021
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.
25 February 2021
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