The benefits of swapping analog, manual processes for digital ones are obvious. But that doesn’t mean they don’t bear repeating — especially against a backdrop of fierce demand for streamlined, efficient and customer-friendly financial processes. “Digital basically upends manual, paper-heavy and operationally cost-intensive processes,” Andrea...
More consumers are making their loan payments on time, aided by slower inflation and other trends. Late payments on loans have leveled off after increasing earlier in the year, Reuters reported Friday (Sept. 13). Delinquency rates across all household liabilities — including credit cards, auto...
Parafin has begun offering financing to Walmart Marketplace sellers. Through the Walmart Marketplace Capital program, eligible sellers can access financing through Parafin, an embedded finance firm and an approved Walmart Marketplace solution provider, Parafin said in a Wednesday (Sept. 11) press release. The Capital by Parafin program...
Regulators have scaled back capital requirements for banks, reducing the holdings that must be on the books to buffer against economic and other shocks. But the ripple effect, even with the lowered “cushion” that must be in place, may be that the banks tighten access...
MoneyLion and Nova Credit have partnered to give credit issuers a more comprehensive view of consumers’ financial health and expand consumers’ access to credit. With this collaboration, lenders using MoneyLion’s hosted decisioning engine will be able to integrate Nova Credit’s cash flow underwriting data and...
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s latest quarterly banking industry report hints at where risks lie if additional pressures come to bear on financial services firms — particularly those that don’t have deposit insurance in the mix. In the tables and discussions that give a read-across...
Lending practices at Brazil’s Nubank reportedly have Wall Street analysts uneasy. As Bloomberg News reported Thursday (Sept. 5), the lender — Latin America’s largest — is enjoying rapid growth, with around 60% of Brazilian adults using its app and its stock up 109% over the past year. However, the...
Robinhood now offers stock lending for British customers, part of the platform’s ongoing U.K. expansion. Introduced Wednesday (Sept. 4), the offering lets customers lend out any fully paid stock in their portfolio, with Robinhood taking care of finding interested borrowers. “Stock Lending is another innovative way for...
Australian lender Elepay has introduced its latest pay-later solution for property owners. The Brisbane-based company’s 180-day offering, announced in a news release Tuesday (Sept. 3), is designed to allow property owners to capitalize on their property’s value before selling without having to worry about upfront expenses. “The 180-day Pay...
