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SMB Credit Score Startup, Nav, Raises $13M in VC
SMB Credit Score Startup, Nav, Raises $13M in VC
May 04, 2017  |  B2B Payments

Small business lending platform Nav has topped up its latest equity capital funding. The company said Wednesday (May 3) that investors at Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic...

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Max Levchin And Building Truly Honest Finance Products
Max Levchin And Building Truly Honest Finance Products
April 12, 2017  |  Loans

In February 2013, Max Levchin launched Affirm — a point-of-sale (POS) lender that would provide creditworthy millennials, who lacked credit cards and credit scores, the ability...

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Experian, BioCatch Fighting Online Fraud Via Biometrics
Experian, BioCatch Fighting Online Fraud Via Biometrics
April 10, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

Experian, the credit rating company, is getting into the biometrics market, inking a deal with technology company BioCatch to use behavioral biometrics to fight fraud....

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CFPB Fines Experian $3M Over False Advertisements For Its ‘PLUS Score’
CFPB Fines Experian $3M Over False Advertisements For Its ‘PLUS Score’
March 24, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced Thursday (March 23) that it took action against credit scoring company Experian and its subsidiaries for allegedly deceiving...

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FICO’s New Groove
FICO’s New Groove
March 14, 2017  |  Consumer Finance

About half of all Americans who took the SAT still remember their score 25 years later. Only about 40 percent of Americans, on the other...

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Equifax Uses Deep Neural Machine Learning To Improve Credit Scoring
Equifax Uses Deep Neural Machine Learning To Improve Credit Scoring
February 21, 2017  |  Innovation

While artificial intelligence, machine learning and other futuristic-seeming technologies have been resigned to the likes of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook, traditional companies are...

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FTC Lodges Charges Against Credit Bureau Center For Fake Rentals
FTC Lodges Charges Against Credit Bureau Center For Fake Rentals
January 19, 2017  |  Security & Fraud

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday (Jan. 18) lodged charges against Credit Bureau Center and three individuals for allegedly tricking consumers into signing up for...

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Chase Offering Free Credit Scores With Chase Credit Journey
Chase Offering Free Credit Scores With Chase Credit Journey
December 22, 2016  |  Consumer Finance

Chase Card Services, a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co., announced Wednesday (Dec. 21) the launch of a new website that helps consumers across the...

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Scoring The Unscorable
Scoring The Unscorable
February 15, 2016  |  Financial Inclusion

Creditworthy but unscorable. What gives? Old credit scoring models, for one. VantageScore sat down with PYMNTS to explain how using new credit scoring models can...

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