Credit risk

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Bloom Credit names CEO

Bloom Credit (www.bloomcredit.io), an API platform company that helps businesses integrate with the credit bureaus, today announced former LendKey Chief Revenue Officer Christian Widhalm will be taking over the role of CEO from co-founder Matt Harris, who will be elevated to Executive Chairman after leading the company from its inception and across the previous five years.

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Creditspring hits 50,000 members

Creditspring, the FCA-regulated consumer credit provider, today announces that it has reached a milestone of 50,000 members since its launch in 2016. This is a key step in its ambition to improve the financial health of 100,000 members by the end of 2021.

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Online service aims to ease financial anxiety for vulnerable customers

IE Hub, an online income and expenditure portal aimed at helping the financially vulnerable take control of their finances, has partnered with the Vulnerability Registration Service, which gives vulnerable people a voice, by enabling them to inform multiple organisations of their vulnerable circumstances.

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Klarna faces data privacy investigation in Sweden

Sweden's financial watchdog is investigating whether buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) fintech Klarna violated bank secrecy laws following a security breach in May.

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Slovenská sporiteľňa picks Fico tech to sharpen lending

Slovenská sporiteľňa, the largest commercial bank in Slovakia, has chosen FICO Decision Optimizer to increase profitability and improve portfolio management for its cash loan portfolio.

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Cross River Bank acquires data and analytics firm PeerIQ

CRB Group, Inc., the parent company of Cross River Bank (“Cross River”), a technology-driven financial services organization that provides core infrastructure and embedded financial solutions, today announced that as of the first quarter of 2021, it has wholly acquired Synthetic P2P Holdings Corporation d/b/a PeerIQ (“PeerIQ”), a preeminent data and risk analytics firm that helps institutions analyze, assess and manage risk in the lending sector, as an affiliate of the New Jersey state-chartered FDIC-insured bank.

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Oliver Wyman's Sean Cory to join Qred as chairman

Swedish fintech company Qred has elected Sean Cory to become Chairman of the board for the company.

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BancorpSouth Bank taps 4most for credit risk support

Global risk analytics consultancy, 4most, has announced the provision of its USA CECL Economics Service to BancorpSouth Bank amidst the ongoing pandemic.

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Intellect Design Arena ships iKredit360

Intellect Design Arena Ltd, the world’s most comprehensive IP-led solutions provider for leading financial institutions, announced the launch of iKredit360, a revolutionary credit platform exclusively designed for European financial institutions.

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Orange Bank to use tech from Younited to improve consumer credit ops

With nearly €500 million of consumer credit expected to be generated in France in 2021, Orange Bank wishes to extend and market its personal loan and assigned credit offers to new customers.

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Oz credit risk platform Rich Data Corp raises $15 million

Rich Data Corporation (RDC), an industry-leading AI credit risk management platform, has raised $15 million via a strongly supported and upsized funding round.

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Mswipe develops MSME score for risk based credit

Helping banks, financial institutions and non-bank finance companies (NBFCs) to better assess micro, small and medium enterprise (MSMEs) for credit solutions, Mswipe announced an industry first hybrid credit score in partnership with Equifax.

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Northern Credit Union to deploy Scienaptic AI credit decisioning platform

Leading global AI-powered credit decision platform provider, Scienaptic AI announced the deployment of its platform at Northern Credit Union.

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Former JPMorgan Chase division CEO Kevin Watters joins FormFree board of directors

FormFree today welcomed Kevin Watters to its board of directors.

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Qontigo and Siepe team on risk analytics

Qontigo, an investment intelligence leader and provider of best-of-breed analytics and world-class indices, and Siepe, a trusted provider of technology, data and analytics solutions, have entered into an exclusive partnership to launch Axioma Risk: Elements, a pre-defined selection of data analytics from the award-winning risk management platform, Axioma RiskTM.

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How to reimagine risk modelling in sustainable finance

From 8-9 December 2020, Finextra and ResponsibleRisk brought together experts in the sustainable finance space to discuss how stakeholders can re-imagine the role of risk modelling.