Alternative Financial Services

Scoring The Invisible Consumers Is Harder Than It Looks

Scoring The Invisible Consumers Is Harder Than It Looks
Scoring The Invisible Consumers Is Harder Than It Looks
January 17, 2017  |  Alternative Finances

When asked, a majority of Americans can still remember what their SAT score was 20 years ago, despite the fact that SAT scores become precisely...

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WU, Saxo, Amex Take Corporate FX Market Share From Big Banks
WU, Saxo, Amex Take Corporate FX Market Share From Big Banks
January 12, 2017  |  B2B Payments

U.K. banks — and large banks everywhere — are losing market share in their corporate clients’ FX needs, new data revealed. Get the Full Story...

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The CFPB’s Uncertain 2017
The CFPB’s Uncertain 2017
January 03, 2017  |  CFPB

If asked in September about what kind of year 2017 was going to be, CFPB officials most likely would have spoken mostly about their ongoing...

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What We Learned About Alternative Finance In 2016
What We Learned About Alternative Finance In 2016
December 27, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

As often happens, the world we leave behind going out of 2016 is very different than the world we imagined 2016 would be going in....

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The Credit Scoring Crunch
The Credit Scoring Crunch
November 15, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

Wanting to make financial services — particularly access to credit — more inclusive is a popular goal and a tricky needle to thread.  The benefits of inclusivity...

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Trigger Looks To Bring Hedge Fund Tools To Everyday Investors
Trigger Looks To Bring Hedge Fund Tools To Everyday Investors
June 20, 2016  |  Investments

Making it easy for the as-yet-uninitiated investor to jump into the market — or perhaps, more accurately, wade in slowly — has been a focus...

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Facing Tougher Times, Prosper Marketplace Is Making Deep Staff Cuts
Facing Tougher Times, Prosper Marketplace Is Making Deep Staff Cuts
May 04, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

Big cuts are coming to Prosper Marketplace. According to Wall Street Journal reports, the online lender is shedding 28 percent of its staff and rearranging...

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FICO’s New BFFs
FICO’s New BFFs
March 22, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

It was just a few months ago that FICO’s fading and inevitable fall was being widely speculated. Fair Isaac Corporation — the entity behind the FICO score...

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The Problems And Promise Of Postal Banking
The Problems And Promise Of Postal Banking
January 12, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

It is easy to overlook the problem of the unbanked and underbanked in the United States — if for no other reason than it is...

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