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Tink acquires credit decisioning provider Instantor

Swedish open banking platform Tink has acquired Instantor, a provider of credit decisions software used by more than 150 live customers, including banks and fintechs across 13 European markets.

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Salad Money and Yapily tackle high cost lenders with 'reasonable loan options' for the NHS staff

Ethical fintech Salad Money has today announced its partnership with open banking leader Yapily to provide NHS staff with fair and reasonable loan options.

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Finpoint enlists CRIF Realtime to fast-track lending process for SMEs

CRIF Realtime Ltd, a leader in credit risk management, and Finpoint Limited, the UK’s trusted business finance platform, have agreed a partnership to support SMEs seeking access to finance.

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GoBear hops into bed with Mambu and CredoLab

GoBear, Asia’s leading financial services platform, will partner with Mambu, the market-leading cloud banking platform, and CredoLab, the largest provider of alternative credit scores based on smartphone metadata in Southeast Asia, as the company accelerates its lending business across the region.

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Aire launches Pulse to help lenders spot sudden financial change created by Covid-19

Aire, the UK’s fourth FCA-regulated credit reference agency (CRA), has launched a powerful new insight product to help lenders make sense of the post COVID-19 borrowing landscape.

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Trade Ledger and Equifax bid for Capability & Innovation Fund (CIF) for SME credit scoring

Trade Ledger, the global banking platform, and Equifax, the consumer and business insights expert, have announced an extended partnership for the UK market which will bid for the BCR Capability and Innovation fund.

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Karat launches credit card for streamers and influencers

A fintech startup targeting creators on digital platforms like YouTube and Twitch has launched its first product, a card that links customers' credit to their social media numbers.

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Visa unveils AI-based credit application fraud prevention tool

Visa has built a digital tool that uses AI and proprietary data to help US financial institutions predict credit application fraud.

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VTB Group receives patent for credit tech

VTB Group has received a patent for a technology developed by the bank's IT and consumer banking specialists for selecting loan offers for clients.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Experian joins FDATA

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.