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Mastercard and Amex invest in 'pay-later' platform Divido

Mastercard and American Express are among the big names to join a $15 million Series A funding round for Divido, a consumer finance platform for retailers, lenders and payment partners.

18 September 2018

News/Credit referencing and support

Ant denies stealing Equifax IP

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

Company update/Credit referencing and support

Hitachi Capital partners with Jaywing to improve application credit scores through AI

Credit risk analytics expert, Jaywing today announces a new partnership with Hitachi Capital Consumer Finance.

03 September 2018

Company update/Credit referencing and support

Unity Bank signs for Finastra Total Lending

Unity Bank, whose holding company is based in Augusta Wisconsin, and which has branches in Minnesota, has selected Finastra’s Total Lending solution to streamline its commercial lending and consumer lending processes, including its agricultural lending business.

22 August 2018

Company update/Credit referencing and support

CreditLadder wins £500,000 funding from HM Treasury to build rental credit platform

Fast-growing UK tech firm CreditLadder is one of three Fintech companies to win through to the final of HM Treasury’s Rent Recognition Challenge (RRC) announced by Chancellor Philip Hammond in his Autumn budget statement in November last year.

16 August 2018

Company update/Credit referencing and support

Mines raises $13m

Mines, a fintech startup re-inventing credit in emerging markets, has closed a Series A round of $13M led by The Rise Fund, a global fund managed by TPG Growth.

10 August 2018

Company update/Credit referencing and support

Liv. to offer customers instant access to credit score

Liv., the lifestyle digital bank by Emirates NBD for millennials today announced that they are working with Al Etihad Credit Bureau (AECB) to provide customers easy and instant access to their AECB Credit Score, by simply clicking on the CreditCheck feature on their Liv. app.

01 August 2018

News/Credit referencing and support

Competition watchdog bears its teeth over Experian/Clearscore merger

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

Company update/Credit referencing and support

Sageworks upgrades lending platform

Sageworks, a financial information company that offers lending, credit risk and portfolio risk solutions to banks and credit unions, today announced the rollout of significant enhancements to the Sageworks Lending Solution for financial institutions to increase flexibility and customization.

23 July 2018

Company update/Credit referencing and support

Credit Simple to merge Open Banking data with credit scores

Credit Simple, the fintech where every Australian and New Zealander can get their credit score and credit file for free, forever, has launched free online budgeting tool Money Simple.

23 July 2018

Company update/Credit referencing and support

ClearScore taps Open Banking to combine credit ratings with financial data

ClearScore today marked its third anniversary by announcing it has exceeded 7m users globally and unveiling ‘OneScore’ - a world-first service that will transform the way consumers view, and take control of, their financial health.

17 July 2018

Company update/Credit referencing and support

Callcredit rebrands as TransUnion

Callcredit, the UK’s second largest credit referencing agency, has today announced the change of its brand name to TransUnion, after being acquired by the leading global risk and information solutions provider in a £1 billion deal last month (19 June).

12 July 2018

News/Credit referencing and support

Citrusxchange launches blockchain-based supply chain financing platform

Canadian startup Citrusexchange has unveiled a blockchain-based platform for supply chain and invoice financing.

10 July 2018

Company update/Credit referencing and support

Equifax partners with consents.online for Open Banking

Equifax, the consumer and business insights expert, has formed a strategic alliance with consents.online, a digital consent management and AISP accredited Open Banking platform which for the first time allows UK consumers and small businesses to manage the sharing of their financial information.

09 July 2018

Company update/Credit referencing and support

Canopy partners with TrueLayer to bring Open Banking to the rental market

TrueLayer, a leading provider of financial APIs, has partnered with rental marketplace Canopy.

05 July 2018

News/Credit referencing and support

EBA warns banks on being too passive or proactive on fintech

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

Company update/Credit referencing and support

Metro Bank partners CreditLadder for rent reporting

Tenants among the 1 million-plus customers of Metro Bank, the UK’s newest high street banking sector entrant, are now able to report their rent through CreditLadder to reference agency Experian.

02 July 2018

Company update/Credit referencing and support

Fico offers free cybersecurity ratings to businesses worldwide

Silicon Valley analytics firm FICO today announced that FICO Enterprise Security Score Portrait is available, free of charge, to all organisations worldwide.

27 June 2018

Company update/Credit referencing and support

McCann Fitzgerald launches credit reporting compliance app

McCann FitzGerald, one of Ireland’s premier law firms, has today launched another legaltech application in a suite of AI-driven applications designed to revolutionise the delivery of legal services.

25 June 2018

News/Credit referencing and support

Linedata Exchange Europe 2018 - live blog

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