Tagged: credit risk

October 14, 2021 @ 4:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Wiserfunding, a UK-based provider of credit risk assessment for SME lenders, has partnered with CrediLinq.Ai, a Singapore-based, AI credit platform. According to a company release, the partnership will seek to provide automated, fast, and credit risk assessment to Southeast Asian SMEs. The companies point to… Read More

October 6, 2021 @ 10:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

DirectID, a global credit risk platform, announced today it has partnered with MockBank, a Fintech firm providing sandboxing and testing functionality for open banking connections. The partnership will give organizations using the DirectID platform the ability to effortlessly test bank connections, without the need to… Read More

September 1, 2021 @ 9:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Wiserfunding is reporting two new platforms that are incorporating its service. Monet, a financial services firm for the “creator” economy, and Playter a buy now, pay later (BNPL) service, have both incorporated Wiserfunding’s credit risk assessment for SMEs. According to a release, Monet is using… Read More

March 16, 2021 @ 10:43 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

LendingUSA, a U.S.-based fintech lender that provides loans to small businesses ranging from $1000 to $35,000, announced on Tuesday it has appointed Michael Brown as its new Vice President of Credit Risk and Pricing. The latest appointment comes just weeks after LendingUSA appointed Adam Contino… Read More

July 4, 2020 @ 2:51 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CRIF Realtime, a credit scoring tool for SMEs, has revealed that it has seen a surge in demand for its Open Banking enabled credit assessment software. This, as UK-based SMEs are increasingly looking to acquire capital to maintain operations during the global COVID-19 outbreak. CRIF’s… Read More

May 30, 2020 @ 7:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK-based RateSetter, a peer to peer (P2P) lender, notes that its Provision Fund has been designed to assist investors with managing credit risk and to simplify the investment process. As explained by Jonathan Hodge, the chief operating officer at RateSetter, the Provision Fund aims to… Read More

April 17, 2020 @ 3:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CaixaBank S.A., a Spanish financial services firm based in Valencia and Barcelona in Spain, is moving forward with its experimental application of quantum computing to its financial products and services. CaixaBank, the third-largest lender by market cap in Spain (after Banco Santander and the BBVA),… Read More

September 29, 2017 @ 2:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Friday, online lending platform Zopa announced the latest update of its credit risk model. This news comes just a few weeks after the lender announced updated on improving loan sale time progress, rebate period, and ISA transfer-in. Chief Product Officer at Zopa, Andrew Lawson,… Read More

June 13, 2016 @ 7:56 am By Erin Hobey  |  

Armed with an undergraduate degree in Electronics from Dharmsinh Desai University and MBAs from both the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and McGill University, Jaidev Janardana spent 12 years with Capital One, in the US and the UK. He was the CMO for Capital One UK, responsible… Read More

April 13, 2016 @ 9:32 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Alternative finance provider, Neyber, announced on Wednesday it has appointed former Zopa credit risk director, Paul Martin, as its new head of credit risk. Martin has reportedly 25 years of experience in the financial service sector and has held credit risks roles in various companies including… Read More

August 13, 2015 @ 2:45 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

  “Finding the right balance between financial reform and risk prevention will be one of the most important issues of our time,” writes Ruizhe Zhang of Dagong Global Credit Rating Co Ltd, in a recent China Daily op-ed on ECNS. Following the release of Internet finance guidelines… Read More