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News/startups
Challenger credit bureau Credit Kudos has raised £2.2m in a funding round led by Ascension Ventures.
18 April 2019
Company update/Credit referencing and support
We have announced today that we have completed the sale of Noddle, the free-for-life credit reporting and monitoring service, to Credit Karma, following approval from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
15 April 2019
The leading online savings platform Raisin UK has announced a new partnership with ClearScore, the UK’s number one credit checking service.
11 April 2019
Global FinTech, The ID Co. has today announced the launch of its pioneering Income Verification solution.
10 April 2019
News/retail
Upstart, a US AI-powered online lender founded by a gaggle of former Googlers, has raised $50 million in a Series D funding round and inked partnerships with several banks.
09 April 2019
News/inclusion
Branch International, a San Francisco-based startup that uses mobile phones to offer loans to people without bank accounts in developing countries, has closed a $170 million Series C funding round led by Foundation Capital and Visa, which is also backing the firm through a strategic partnership.
08 April 2019
News/Credit referencing and support
South African digital lender TymeBank has enlisted the help of artificial intelligence-powered conversational banking technology provider Finn AI to build a financial fitness coach called Max.
02 April 2019
Company update/ai
To increase velocity for deploying predictive models, Fico and Equifax are introducing the Data Decisions Cloud.
27 March 2019
Monevo, Europe’s largest personal loan market place and platform, has launched Credit Staq for the UK market; a cutting-edge tech solution which gives consumers access to a comparison of pre-approved lending options from across the whole market.
22 March 2019
Company update/retail
Kontomatik starts operating in the Philippines and Indonesia, with further expansion plans in the SEA region, as the first Polish company delivering new data source for alternative credit scoring based on financial transaction data to consumer finance and micro-lending companies in SEA.
Money 20/20 Asia day three opened with a detailed discussion on reaching the unbanked in South East Asia, following an age in which financial inclusion has been driven by regulatory and policy mandates. Today, the ‘financial inclusion market’ is leveraging data analytics to offer a greater choice for consumers and expand in areas that financial institutions previously avoided because of increased paperwork.
21 March 2019
Nationwide Building Society is teaming up with rent reporting platform CreditLadder to help tenants investigate whether they can become homeowners.
20 March 2019
Experian has targeted radically reducing the UK’s ‘Invisible’ population by harnessing the potential of new data sources, which can help organisations make more informed decisions.
12 March 2019
Company update/inclusion
Experian, the world leader in information services, is further expanding and investing in its innovation facility, Experian X Labs based in Singapore.
08 March 2019
CRIF High Mark, a leading credit bureau licensed by the RBI, and CreditVidya, the leader in alternative data-based credit assessment, announced a strategic tie-up to provide lenders with credit scoring even for new-to-credit and ‘thin-file’ customers.
07 March 2019
The Bank of Lithuania granted a license to Kontomatik UAB to provide AIS services in 10 countries without the need to open local branches.
06 March 2019
Evergreen Finance London Ltd, a leading UK fintech that operates as MoneyBoat.co.uk, have recently selected FICO technology and analytics to automate lending decisions.
North West headquartered Quint Group, a leading international, highly innovative fintech group operating in the consumer finance market, has secured a £16.5m financing deal from Natwest Bank.
04 March 2019
News/ai
United Overseas Bank is to run small business trading data from companies transacting over B2B e-commerce platform OctoRocket through an AI-based credit assessment tool to speed up the loan approval process.
28 February 2019
News/regulation
Experian has canned its proposed £275 million acquisition of rival credit referencing firm ClearScore in the wake of resistance to the deal from competition regulators.
27 February 2019
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