Soon after news emerged that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) would be pulling back its investigation into Equifax Inc. and the data breach that...
Ant Financial Services Group (which offers Alipay) said on Monday (Jan. 15) that it has garnered approval in China to issue consumer credit backed securities...
In January 1950, William Applebaum published a piece in the Journal of Marketing about the buying behaviors of consumers in retail stores. At the time, Applebaum...
China is on the hunt for a homegrown alternative to the U.S.-based FICO score credit ranking system as it attempts to keep up with the...
Muhammed needs six new computers for his internet café in Jakarta. It’s a small café, and six machines are enough, but the ones he has...
Those who are fortunate enough to have access to credit often take it for granted. Imagine if your car broke down, your child needed school...
How much of the U.S. population is financially vulnerable? That is, how many are walking the razor’s edge of solvency, and how many are on...
The Great Recession had a crippling effect on credit markets across the board. Consumers, enterprise-sized businesses and small businesses (SMBs) all found themselves caught in...
“Finance is pretty broken.” So started Affirm’s Co-Founder and CEO Max Levchin’s remarks at his firm’s first-ever AFFIRMation conference for its retail partners in San...