Nick Green Director at Purple Patch Broking Ltd
How procurement can drive innovation and efficiencies in financial services The financial services sector is going through extraordinary levels of transformation. These external pressures are forcing financial institutions to focus hard on their credit data suppliers, seeking to marry innovation with quality and cost savings. Procurement can have a...
22 February 2022 /payments /retail Financial Supply Chain
How financial services procurement can gain better leverage with credit data providers Over the last few years, financial services businesses have grown to rely on procurement to support and strengthen supplier relationships. That’s especially true during the pandemic. According to one study, 52% of enterprises viewed procurement’s impact during t...
15 February 2022 /regulation /retail Financial Supply Chain
With the number of online purchases using BNPL services growing at a rate of 39% per year, more and more lenders are starting to become concerned with high BNPL usage, and how that data will be included within risk models and scores. Against this backdrop, and with The Treasury set to close its consultation on the FCA’s regulation of the buy now pa...
18 January 2022 /regulation /retail BNPL
The UK Treasury recently published a consultation on how it will regulate BNPL, potentially making the UK the first major credit market to regulate these booming, innovative products. The FCA said the sector quadrupled to £2.7bn last year during the pandemic - to about 1% of the UK’s entire credit market - with more than 5 million active users. Th...
16 November 2021 /regulation /retail BNPL
Fintech’s, merchants, and big tech brands are forming new attractive buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) and hybrid instalment-based offerings shaking up credit card lending and forcing businesses to rethink data requirements and strategies. Growing at a rate of 39% per year and expected to exceed $260 billion by 2025, BNPL services can’t be ignored. BNPL of...
14 October 2021 /payments /retail BNPL
In this blog, we debunk the top five misconceptions that we hear from credit providers – the blockers that stop them from getting the best price for credit data. Did you know? Prices can vary by upto 500%. Even if you choose to stay with the same credit data provider, you can get more favourable terms by renegotiate mid-contract or at renewal. Plu...
15 June 2021 /payments /retail Financial Risk Management
It’s increasingly difficult to achieve a reliable data set – and that could mean you can’t trust the information shared within your lending organisation. So, what’s the solution? In this blog, we explore how to gain high-quality data for credit risk programs, like AML, without it taking an abundance of your time. Beyond satisfying regulatory gover...
09 April 2021 /regulation /retail Data Management and Governance
6AMLD: A quick look at the data requirements for the 6th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (6AMLD) Anti-Money Laundering (AML) is one of the most intense areas of financial regulation. With the development of money laundering crimes constantly evolving, the steps firms take to prevent these crimes are often insufficient. With the 6th Anti-Money La...
09 April 2021 /regulation /retail Financial Services Regulation
Nick Frazer | December 2020 Changing data usage and significantly increased portfolio risk posed great challenges for risk and procurement professionals during 2020. Now, as businesses reopen and we move into 2021, we will start to see credit providers shifting gears from firefighting to addressing the aftermath of COVID-19. 2021 is expected to se...
08 December 2020 /retail /predictions Financial Risk Management
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