Finances news and trends

Nova Credit Launches Alternative Credit Data Platform for Lenders
Consumer Finance // March 04, 2024

Nova Credit has introduced its Nova Credit Platform, which is aimed at transforming how lenders manage and analyze consumer credit data.  This new platform provides a means for easy integration, efficient management and insightful analysis of consumer credit data from alternative sources, adhering to consumer reporting agency...

CFOs Say Collections Need Balance of Automation and Personal Touch
CFO // October 04, 2022

When Bryan Hasegawa assumed the CFO role at LightRiver in August, he said he spent the first few weeks just learning the ropes of the company’s existing accounting functions to see what was in place, what worked well and what needed improvement to keep up...

New Report: 53 Pct Of Upper-Income Americans Live Paycheck-To-Paycheck
Consumer Finance // June 15, 2021

Living paycheck to paycheck is sometimes seen as synonymous with being poor, an unfortunate but relatively uncommon circumstance. In fact, it is far more widespread than one might think: Fifty-four percent of consumers in the United States today live paycheck to paycheck, including 53 percent...

New Data: Why 75 Pct Of Consumers Want More From Card Apps Than They’re Getting
Mobile Applications // June 16, 2020

Banks are well aware that they must do more these days than simply provide their debit and credit card holders with monthly account statements. Just as consumers have come to expect robust mobile banking services, a growing share want mobile tools to help them control...

Interviews & Exclusives
How Brick-and-Mortar Banks Can Seize The Digital Moment

May 12, 2020
There was a time when consumers did not require much more from their local bank than a checking account, savings account and an ATM card. This has changed dramatically in recent years as consumers’ financial lives have migrated to the digital realm. Consumers are paying with credit and debit cards more than ever before, and […]

Debit Cards For Kids — It’s A Thing

August 27, 2019
Paying out a kid’s allowance may not sound like a major payments hurdle to clear, but for Greenlight Co-Founder, CEO and father of four Tim Sheehan it was enough of...

Honeyfi: Love — And Better Budgeting — Can Keep Millennials Together

August 17, 2017
Money, as most people well know, cannot actually buy love or happiness. This fact, of course, breaks our hearts as payments experts — as we prefer everything in the form of a monetary...

Affirm Challenges Retailers, FIs To Practice ’Honest Finance‘

July 21, 2017
“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 Francisco yesterday. Levchin, by his own description,...

Quick Reads
Nova Credit Launches Alternative Credit Data Platform for Lenders

March 04, 2024
Nova Credit has introduced its Nova Credit Platform, which is aimed at transforming how lenders manage and analyze consumer credit data.  This new platform provides a means for easy integration, efficient management and insightful analysis of consumer credit data from alternative sources, adhering to consumer reporting agency standards, the company said in a Monday (March 4) press release.  […]

FTC Releases State Data Of COVID-19 Related Consumer Complaints

June 12, 2020
Fraud was the top complaint related to coronavirus logged by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), according to new reports released on the organization’s website. There were 47,881 fraud complaints to...

Higher Education Eyes Freezing Tuition

May 08, 2020
The College of William and Mary, hoping to court new applicants even as a financial crisis grips the world, has announced a rollback of the 3 percent tuition increase it...

Hospitals Face Financial Hardship As COVID-19 Continues To Surge

April 27, 2020
Hospitals on the front lines of treating the coronavirus pandemic are projecting staggering losses, some as high as $50 billion a month, according to an NPR report on Thursday (April...