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Asset Control offers new interface to ratings agencies

Asset Control, the leading provider of financial data management solutions and services, announces the launch of its interfaces for S&P Capital IQ’s Xpressfeed, and Moody’s reworked ratings product, Moody’s RDS v2.0.

19 May 2015

News/Credit risk

Researchers build model to predict which delinquent credit card holders will pay up

University researchers say that they have found a way to predict which delinquent credit card accounts will repay outstanding balances that is up to 50% more accurate than the scoring systems currently used by banks.

15 May 2015

Company update/Credit risk

InvestUp appoints Cary Depel legal director

InvestUP, the crowdfunding investment portal and portfolio management tool for peer-to-peer (P2P) and crowd funded lending platforms, has appointed Cary Depel as its new compliance and legal director.

14 May 2015

Company update/Credit risk

Paylevo integrates FinTecSystems risk tech into mobile invoicing system

Stockholm-based mobile-invoicing company Paylevo focusing on smart, convenient and secure payment methods now integrates FinTecSystems Risk Solution as its foundation of its innovative credit check for German customers.

06 May 2015

Company update/Credit risk

PeerIQ risk analytics platform secures $6 million in financing

PeerIQ, a financial information services company that connects peer-to-peer ("P2P") lending to the capital markets by helping institutional investors analyze, access and manage risk, today announced that it has raised $6 million of seed funding.

09 April 2015

News/Credit risk

Fico targets underbanked with alternative credit scoring system

Fair Isaac is piloting a new credit scoring system that uses alternative data that should make it easier for the underbanked to prove their creditworthiness.

02 April 2015

News/Credit risk

Canada's D+H agrees $1.25bn Fundtech acquisition

Canadian financial technology firm D+H is to buy transaction banking vendor Fundtech for $1.25 billion in cash, subject to regulatory approvals.

31 March 2015

Company update/Credit risk

S3 Partners to provide weekly data for Imagine Software clients

Imagine Software, the leading provider of real-time portfolio management, risk and regulatory solutions for financial firms worldwide, today announced a new partnership with S3 Partners.

16 March 2015

News/Credit risk

Wells Fargo launches credit score advice sites

US bank Wells Fargo has built a set of interactive websites designed to help users build and improve their credit.

25 February 2015

News/Credit risk

Alibaba's Ant Financial takes credit scoring to a new level

Ant Financial, the financial services arm of e-commerce giant Alibaba, is leveraging Big Data technology and all of its considerable customer assets to launch a powerful new credit scoring agency.

28 January 2015

News/Credit risk

Insufficient data the greatest obstacle to better risk management - bank execs

Despite ever-growing volumes of data, just over half of banks still think that not having enough is the greatest obstacle to better risk management, according to a survey from the Economist Intelligence Unit.

11 December 2014

News/Credit risk

Ex-Pimco boss El-Erian invests in P2P lender Payoff

Former Pimco chief executive Mohamed El-Erian has become the latest big name from the world of traditional financial services to take an interest in P2P lending, making an investment in US outfit Payoff.

22 October 2014

Company update/Credit risk

Axiom ready for new FCA credit reporting rules

AxiomSL, a global provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, has expanded its product sales data (PSD) disclosure offering to cover new consumer credit reporting requirements that are being introduced by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today.

01 October 2014

News/Credit risk

Former PayPal founder Levchin wants to upend consumer finance

Former Paypal co-founder Max Levchin is looking to disrupt the payments market once again with the launch of a new service that lets online merchants advance credit to consumers at the point of sale.

10 July 2014

News/Credit risk

Barclays unveils fintech accelerator startups

Beating off competition from more than 300 rivals from around the world, 11 fintech startups have scored spots on an accelerator programme run by banking giant Barclays.

11 June 2014

News/Credit risk

UK Chancellor plans on UK payments shake-up

George Osborne, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, has threatened to break up the UK's big banks if they fail to follow new rules to ring-fence risky investment operations from their retail operations, and promised a shake-up of the payment system to boost competition in the sector.

04 February 2013

Finextra TV/Credit risk

Enterprise risk and the top 100 RiskTech firms

Peyman Mestchian, Managing Partner at Chartis Research on data, enterprise risk and the top 100 RiskTech firms.

19 December 2011

News/Credit risk

TMX Group agrees Razor Risk acquisition as Maple deal faces regulatory concerns

Canadian exchange operator TMX Group has agreed a deal to buy Australia's Razor Risk Technologies for around C$10.18 million in cash.

30 November 2011

Finextra TV/Credit risk

Transaction banking today

Werner Steinmüller, global head of the transaction banks and member of the executive board at Deutsche Bank discusses the role of transaction banks in today's post-financial crisis world.

30 September 2011

Finextra TV/Credit risk

Liquidity and Basel III - hype vs reality

Orlando B. Hanselman, director, risk and compliance at Fiserv looks at the hype vs reality with Basel III at Sibos 2011.

28 September 2011