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Experian joins Marketplace Lending Association

Marketplace lenders continue to be at the forefront of transparent and responsible financial innovation.

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Online lender Upstart raises $32.5m

Upstart, a US online lender founded by a gaggle of former Googlers, has raised $32.5 million in a funding round led by Japan's Rakuten and an unnamed asset manager.

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Experian gets FCA accreditation

At Experian, we unlock the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses and society. Every day, we help millions of people navigate key life moments, helping them to protect, manage and make the most of their data.

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ClearScore to create 200 jobs at new HQ

ClearScore, the UK’s no. 1 credit checking service, today welcomed The Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, Minister of State for Digital and Culture to officially open its new London headquarters.

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ClearScore launches credit checking chatbot

ClearScore, the UK’s no. 1 credit checking service, is aiming to help millions of people improve their credit score with the launch of ‘Coaching’ available for free to all today.

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CFPB investigates alternative data for credit scores

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today launched an inquiry into ways to expand access to credit for consumers who are credit invisible or who lack enough credit history to obtain a credit score.

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ID Finance secures $50m debt funding

ID Finance, the fintech innovator of emerging markets, has secured $50m in debt funding to support the company’s rapid growth having more than trebled revenue to $68m in 2016. The company will use the financing – which includes $15m from TransKapitalBank - to fund its expansion across Latin America after launching its MoneyMan online lending product in Brazil last year.

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Equifax appointed by P2P lender Flender to support SME loans

Equifax Limited, the consumer and business insight expert, has been appointed by new P2P lending platform Flender to support the underwriting of loans for UK SMEs.

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Chilean alternative credit scoring outfit Destacame closes seed round

Chilean-based alternative credit scoring startup Destacame announced today that it has closed its seed round of financing. Funds will support the expansion of Destacame's services within Chile and into Mexico in 2017.

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Misys adds crowdlending to core banking package

Core banking vendor Misys has launched a crowdlending module to enable financial institutions to move into the alternative finance marketplace.

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Experian partners dv01 to target marketplace lending

dv01, the reporting and analytics platform that brings transparency to lending markets, and Experian, the leading global information services company, today announced a strategic collaboration that will provide dv01 clients—including leading hedge funds, banks and asset managers—access to richer borrower credit attributes as they conduct performance analysis using dv01's suite of built-in tools.

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Equifax teams up with Castlight on real-time affordability platform for mortgages

Equifax, the consumer and business insights expert, has formed a new strategic partnership with Castlight, the leading financial capability company, to launch the first real-time affordability platform to support brokers and their clients with mortgage applications.

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TBI Bank selects Provenir Cloud for real-time credit decisions

Provenir, provider of real-time, risk decisioning solutions, today announced that TBI Bank, which serves consumers and businesses in Bulgaria and Romania, has chosen The Provenir Cloud for rapid risk decision-making and streamlined processing of customer applications.

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Rakuten invests EUR10m in Kreditech

Kreditech, the leading consumer finance company, has raised EUR 10m equity from Rakuten, Inc.

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Finicity secures $42 million, led by Experian

Finicity, a leading provider of real-time financial data aggregation and insights, has secured $42 million in new funding.

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Fed Governor sounds warning on alternative credit scoring data

A Federal Reserve governor has cautioned fintech firms about the risks of using non-traditional data such as social media information to judge creditworthiness, warning that it could lead to them falling foul of fair lending laws.

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Developing world fintech incubator showers cash on top performers

Digital Financial Services (DFS) Lab, a developing world-focused fintech incubator backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has handed over more than $400,000 to four startups that impressed during an intensive bootcamp.

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Nationwide signs up to EDM Prism

Nationwide Building Society has become the first lender to sign up to EDM Mortgage Support Services’ PRISM solution, with other lenders expected to follow suit in the New Year.

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Credit Karma crosses the border to Canada

In an effort to continue its mission of making financial progress possible for everyone, the personal finance company Credit Karma today announced it has launched in Canada .

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ABN Amro introduces Gradefix: ‘risk-as-a-service’

Gradefix is a new service that uses transaction data to perform analyses and risk assessments for clients.